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Song music and lyrics by Matthew Young

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When the human race first started out
We had nothing to brew
Just roamin round from place to place
With bugger all to do
Until one day some rain fell into a bowl of barley grain
And since that one miraculous day
We have nay been the same

It will cure you of all your ills
And steal away your pain
That lovely elixir, the magic mixture
Of water, hops, and grains

First we start by mashing grain
Then boiling hops and pitching yeast
Those microscopic animals
The maltose munchin' beasts
It's them that turns this mixture
Into the drink we love so dear
For they take that sugary water
And transform it into beer

It will cure you of all your ills
And steal away your pain
That lovely elixir, the magic mixture
Of water, hops, and grains

Then like a scourge upon the land
The dreaded prohibition came
It touted our nation's downfall
And booze it was to blame
Our casks were smashed for all the see
Likewise our barrels drained
Till the people shouted in one voice
This joyous grand refrain

That it will cure you of all your ills
And steal away your pain
That lovely elixir, the magic mixture
Of water, hops, and grains

From the golden German lager
To the black Imperial stout
There's a beer for every lad and lass
I'll say without a doubt
For as the poet Flann O'Brien said
"Though you do the best you can
When things look blacker than the night
A pint of plain's your only man"

It will cure you of all your ills
And steal away your pain
That lovely elixir, the magic mixture
Of water, hops, and grains

Yes it will cure you of all your ills
And steal away your pain
That lovely elixir, the magic mixture
Of water, hops, and grains

YAY BEER

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from Water, Hops, and Grains, released July 6, 2018

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