The Singing Postman 'They're All Playing Dommies in the Bar' (1967 promo video)

This 1967 video in a pub of 'The Singing Postman' (Allan Smethurst) is part of a delightful 15-minute promo film made by Ralph Tuck, the local BBC radio presenter who discovered him. Rural pub life in the 60's, when pubs were split into two: 'Saloon Bars' for the well-to-do who paid more for their drinks, and the 'Public Bar' where workers could visit in their work clothes. Britain's class system flourished in the pubs. Smethurst's observational lyrics capture that world and era succinctly.
The pub is still there! It's The Crown, in Stowupland, near Stowmarket. You can book a table for a meal there: https://www.thecrownstowupland.co.uk/

"I like a pint of beer nearly every night. I like a yard if the company's right." More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_S...

The entire film can be seen at the East Anglian Film Archive at the UEA, who have digitised films going back to 1896, here: http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/756
Excerpt shown for information purposes only.

1. I like a pint of beer nearly every night,
I like a yard if the company is right,
Goes in the pub, but they never say a sight,
Cause they’re all playing Dommies in the bar!

2. Round in the smoke room, television on,
Sometimes a quiz show, sometimes a song;
Then you get the newsreel, on about the bomb,
And they’re all-playing dommies in the bar!

3. All the best people, they go in the best room,
Talk about the business, slumps and the boom
Somebody's going to lose their tea break soon
Cause they’re all playing Dommies in the bar

4. Now we don't know where we come from,
We don't know where we're going,
There isn't any rock in this whole world,
There isn't any port of storm!

5. I goes to the landlord, hope to get an ear,
Couldn't find the landlord, he was never there;
Gone down the road, to get a pint of beer,
And they’re all playing dommies in the bar.

6. Rare lot of mothers have to stay at home,
Doing all the washing up, knitting all alone
But they’re all getting ready with a nice big moan
While they all play Dommies in the bar
(They don't know what's coming to them. Good job they don't.)

7. There's a couple in the corner, I think they'd like to fall -
Going to introduce themselves, Take a little walk
The first thing they say: ‘Have you got a bit of chalk?’
And they’re all playing dommies in the bar.

8. There's a nice little barmaid, looking at me,
Nice little barmaid, pretty she be;
Just pulled her stockings up, but they don't see,
Because they’re all playing dommies in the bar!
“Can you go? No! Ohh! Dominoe!”

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