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Buckie Anthem
Let me tell ya a story about a man named Jed
Poor Lurgan man, barely kept his kin fed
Then one day when he was signing on the line
Said "Hurry up bitch,need some money for ma wine"
Buckfast that is, tonic wine, number nine.
Well the next thing ya know old Jed's lyin' flat
The kin folk said "Jed give us a sup a that
"These ole dole cheques just simply ain't enough"
So they grabbed all the kids and started sleepin' rough
The park that is,rollie fags,sleepin'bags.
And now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his friends
Buckfast everyday,
their luck has now come in
Your all invited back next week to this locality
To join the whole family pissin' up a tree.
You all come back now ya hear
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Buckfast History
Buckfast Wine (the nectar of the Gods)is a world famous elixir produced by monks in Buckfastleigh in Devon. The origins of the wine stem back much further than your Da's generation, and dates back to the 1800's
The recipe for the wine was sent to Buckfast in 1897 by the nephew of one of the original French monks. It used a fortified base wine from Spain, to which macerated mate tea, coca leaves and vanilla had been added. The Tonic was sold at the Abbey as medicinal wine, with the directions on the label; 3 small glasses per day (dead on!).
By the 1920's, 1400 bottles were sold annually (that's how many Garys' sells on a Saturday afternoon), 500 of them at Buckfast and the others by post. In 1927, however, the local magistrates withdrew the Abbey's licence to sell the wine, and it seemed the business would go down the tube Thankfully a London wine merchant was visiting the abbey at around this time and in conversation with the then Abbot, Anscar Vonier, it was decided that the monks would continue to make the Tonic , and the distribution and sale would be carried out by a separate marketing company, with the Abbey receiving a percentage from the sales. In order to broaden its appeal, the Tonic was changed slightly from a rather severe patent medicine to a smoother , more matured wine.
Having taken on the marketing of "Buckfast", the wine merchant - J.Chandler&Co. - set out on a series of energetic and creative advertising campaigns. Particularly noticeable were the displays in cinema foyers in the 1930's . Outside Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, for example, could be seen a display of Tonic Wine, and the slogan, "All the Poor Men Blessed Robin Hood - Buckfast Does the Whole World Good" (catchy). In Hong Kong, it was marketed as "The Dew On The Grass In The Early Morning"
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