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Duration: 5:49 
Release Date: 1982  (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Lyrics By: Mark Knopfler (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Music By: Mark Knopfler (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Produced By: Mark Knopfler (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Released By: Warner Bros. (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Published By: ALMO Music Corp. (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Licensing: ASCAP  #390389383 
Keywords: "BREWER'S DROOP", DISEASE, DOCTORS, INDUSTRY, JESUS, WORKERS 
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Facts:
  • "Brewer's Droop" is an in-joke, referring both to the effect of alcohol on libido and to the band that Mark Knopfler played in prior to Dire Straits. (Stavro Arrgolus)
  • From the 1982 album "Love Over Gold". (Stavro Arrgolus)
  • Mark Knopfler's take on the state of British industry in the '80s with an extra shot at the NHS for good measure. (Stavro Arrgolus)
  • Song Lyrics:
    Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
    Somebody threw a spanner; they threw him in the hole
    There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
    Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
    There's a meeting in the boardroom; they're trying to trace the smell
    There's leaking in the washroom; there's a sneak in personnel
    Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
    'Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?'

    Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
    Refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most
    Watchdog's got rabies; the foreman's got the fleas
    And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease
    There's panic on the switchboard; tongues are in knots
    Some come out in sympathy; some come out in spots
    Some blame the management, some the employees
    And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease

    Yea, now the work force is disgusted downs it's tools and walks
    Innocence is injured; experience just talks
    Everyone seeks damages, everyone agrees
    That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'
    On ITV and BBC, they talk about the curse
    Philosophy is useless; theology is worse
    History boils over; there's an economics freeze
    Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'

    Doctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here
    You've got smoker's cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer
    I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees
    But worst of all young man, you've got Industrial Disease"
    He wrote me a prescription; he said, "You are depressed.
    I'm glad came came to see me to get this off your chest
    Come back and see me later - next patient please
    Send in another victim of Industrial Disease"

    I go down to Speaker's Corner; I'm thunderstruck
    They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
    Two men say they're Jesus; one of them must be wrong
    There's a protest singer; he's singing a protest song - he says
    'They wanna have a war to keep their factories
    They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
    They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
    They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease

    They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
    They wanna sap your energy- incarcerate your mind
    They give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
    Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease'
    Meanwhile, the first Jesus says 'I'll cure it soon
    Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons'
    The other one's out on hunger strike; he's dying by degrees
    How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?
    (Stavro Arrgolus)
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    Played on 3 shows:
    02-12-11, #MMS-14108-20-10, #ROTP_313
    12-10-10, #ROTP_329
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