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Released in 1991

Work - Let's Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry, aka. The Drinking Song

Written by Paul McCartney • Carl Davis

Last updated on July 27, 2019

Album This song officially appears on the Liverpool Oratorio Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 1991

Master album

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“Let’s Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry” is the seventh track of the sixth movement – entitled “Work” – of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio, released in 1991.

V: WORK. Mary Dee’s office. She runs a hectic business staffed entirely by women. Mary Dee busies among the computers and fax machines, issuing orders as her girls lapse their concentration to fantasize of love. Meanwhile at Shanty’s office – where his rank does not match Mary Dee’s success – he is cajoled by colleagues to work less and play more. As one colleague, Mr. Dingle, tempts Shanty to slip off to the pub, at home Mary Dee indicates that she is pregnant.

“Liverpool Oratorio” liner notes

This track has been published, under the title “The Drinking Song“, in the first single extracted from the “Liverpool Oratorio“.

Lyrics

MR. DINGLE

Let's find ourselves a little hostelry

Where you can sit and have a drink on me.

We'll get a chance

To talk about anyone who bothers us.

There's so much more to life than meets the

eye,

It's quite enough to make a throat feel dry.

So let's repair

To where no-one else would dare to bother

us.

Let's have a drink

While we think what to do.

And while we think,

I'll accept a little drink from you.

If everybody took a serious view of life,

We all would feel the same as you.

But, as it is,

We don't, so it isn't gonna bother us.

Let's have a drink

While we think what to do.

And while we think,

I'll accept a little drink from you.

MARY DEE

Part of myself grows inside.

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“Work - Let's Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry, aka. The Drinking Song” has been played in 7 concerts.

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