He’d turned out to be a good sport about it after all. Those drums remained in place for five more years. Never used. No more bombs ever fell directly upon the remaining half of the street. I don’t know what became of them afterwards. Most likely, they were simply junked, along with most other redundant wartime stuff. Gas masks; stirrup pumps; steel helmets. It all went. In the euphoria that followed the war being over at last, nobody wanted reminders of it hanging around. We’ll never know. Perhaps some Luftwaffe gent did mistake those thousands of empty fifty-gallon drums for a tempting oil refinery. A parodic version in 1940 is used as despedida (closure) for Uruguayan murga performers Línea Maginot. [ citation needed] Source for notated version: - the 1960 recording by Paddy Canney and P.J. Hayes [O’Malley]; a 1963 Radio Eireann recording of Clare musicians Paddy Canny (fiddle) and Peadar O’Loughlin (flute) [Breathnach]; fiddler Willie Kelly via New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. The Wiggles sang this song on their 2005 album and video Sailing Around the World. [ citation needed]

In the 2022 Dreamworks animated film, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Papa Bear of the "Three Bears Crime Family" gives another character, Mama Luna, the "piano treatment" which involves him playing her piano which she was thrown into while he sings a jaunty rendition of this song. [ citation needed] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.330. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. The Italian football club Padova use the tune of Beer Barrel Polka for their goliardia song Dolce fiasco ( Sweet flagon). [ citation needed] A young brewer from Cornwall who has just completed his apprenticeship has had his first beer selected to be sold nationally by Wetherspoons next month. Joe Baker works for St Austell Brewery and has named his recipe ‘Average Joe’In a sense, though, all of the shorts on Roll Out The Barrel are looking to the past: a quest for the 'real' Britain, preserved by the pub, a perpetual attempt to recover something lost (a task that preoccupies people now, seemingly as much as ever, in this bunting-choked year of 2012.). It's the hazy, half-forgotten memory of a thing which may or may not have ever been. This is Britain, as seen through a pint glass, blearily. The polka became famous around the world. In June 1939, "Beer Barrel Polka", as recorded by Will Glahé, was number one on the Hit Parade. This version was distributed by Shapiro Bernstein. Glahé's earlier 1934 recording sold many copies in its German version Rosamunde. [ citation needed] There are three main methods of dispensing beer, flat stillage via a cask tap, upright stillage via a metal spear or a plastic floating widget.

Aged seventeen, fed-up with starving, he’d enlisted. His timing a shade unfortunate. Namely, June 1914. Found himself in a remote outpost called Exeter, Private Copley, James: 6068 Devon Rgt. For a few weeks, wore the flash red tunic and spiked helmet of that era.It is sung in the final scene of the Rumpole of the Bailey television episode, "Rumpole and the Alternative Society" (1977). [ citation needed] The owner knew of course, that he was speaking to one of the culprits, Dad knew that he knew. In turn, he knew that Dad knew he knew. But by then neither of them cared much. Koten, Marek (2022-07-19). "The Czech Folk Song Known All Around the World". 3 Seas Europe . Retrieved 2022-09-23.