Released in 1991
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
“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“.
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.
Official album • Released in 1991
2:04 • Live • L1
Paul McCartney : Executive producer Eddie Klein : Additional engineer John Timperley : Balance engineer Carl Davis : Orchestra conductor Peter Mew : Additional engineer, Editor John Fraser : Producer Kiri Te Kanawa : Soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra : Orchestra Nic Raine : Assistant to carl davis Martin Astle : Additional engineer Tom Leader : Additional engineer, Editor Willard White : Bass
Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991
Save The Child / The Drinking Song
7" Single • Released in 1991
2:05 • Live • L1
Paul McCartney : Executive producer Eddie Klein : Additional engineer John Timperley : Balance engineer Carl Davis : Orchestra conductor Peter Mew : Additional engineer, Editor John Fraser : Producer Kiri Te Kanawa : Soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra : Orchestra Nic Raine : Assistant to carl davis Martin Astle : Additional engineer Tom Leader : Additional engineer, Editor Willard White : Bass
Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991
Selections from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
Official album • Released in 1992
2:04 • Live • L1
Paul McCartney : Executive producer Eddie Klein : Additional engineer John Timperley : Balance engineer Carl Davis : Orchestra conductor Peter Mew : Additional engineer, Editor John Fraser : Producer Kiri Te Kanawa : Soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra : Orchestra Nic Raine : Assistant to carl davis Martin Astle : Additional engineer Tom Leader : Additional engineer, Editor Willard White : Bass
Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991
7" Single • Released in 2022
2:04 • Live • L1
Paul McCartney : Executive producer Eddie Klein : Additional engineer John Timperley : Balance engineer Carl Davis : Orchestra conductor Peter Mew : Additional engineer, Editor John Fraser : Producer Kiri Te Kanawa : Soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra : Orchestra Nic Raine : Assistant to carl davis Martin Astle : Additional engineer Tom Leader : Additional engineer, Editor Willard White : Bass
Concert From the concert in Liverpool, United Kingdom on Jun 28, 1991
Unofficial live • Released in 1995
1:53 • Live
Willard White : Baritone Michael Pollock : Piano
Concert From "An Evening With Paul McCartney & Friends - Royal College Of Music Benefit" in London, United Kingdom on Mar 23, 1995
“Work - Let's Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry, aka. The Drinking Song” has been played in 7 concerts.
Jul 27, 2024 • Part of Liverpool Oratorio
Jul 21, 2024 • Part of Liverpool Oratorio
Jul 20, 2024 • Part of Liverpool Oratorio
Jul 18, 2024 • Part of Liverpool Oratorio
An Evening With Paul McCartney & Friends - Royal College Of Music Benefit
Mar 23, 1995 • United Kingdom • London • St. James' Palace
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