# calling somerset poms re cider song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985 "2003-02-18T22:58:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985/1 "2003-02-18T22:58:18Z")
hoping somebody can help me out there. i’ve a friend who hails from somerset and she is terribly nostalgic for the tune that goes something like ( big guess ): “… she comes down from somerset where the cider trees grow…” apparently the song was used in an ad for a cider brewer many years ago. i’ve googled and googled to no avail. what i would like is a sound file of the song so as to bring a tear to her eye. help. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985/2 "2003-02-19T00:02:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flano1 \* > \*\*hoping somebody can help me out there. > > i’ve a friend who hails from somerset and she is terribly nostalgic > for the tune that goes something like ( big guess ): > > “… she comes down from somerset where the cider trees grow…” > > apparently the song was used in an ad for a cider brewer many years ago. > > i’ve googled and googled to no avail. > > what i would like is a sound file of the song so as to bring a tear to her eye. > > help. \*\* It was, I think an advert for Coates Cider. The first line of the song was " Oh, Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow" Sorry I can’t help with a sound file. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985/3 "2003-02-22T08:36:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vetch \* > > \*\*It was, I think an advert for Coates Cider. The first line of the song was > " Oh, Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow" > Sorry I can’t help with a sound file. \*\* I can confirm that it was definitely a Coates Cider ad, from the 60s or very early 70s in the UK. My mother (Somerset-born-and-raised) used to love the stuff. I think that it was more of a jingle than a song, i.e. the **only** line was “_Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow_”, sung at the end of the ad. [This site](http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/MARS9191/mycustompage0006.htm) gives a brief history of Coates cider, and says: > [@](#): > > For people living outside the West Country Coate’s cider meant cartoon yokels announcing in rich Wurzel accents that “Coate’s comes up from Zummerset”, where the zider apples grow" in a TV commercial. It was an inspired marketing move, especially as the jingle was based on the popular “We Come Up from Somerset” by the great Portishead songwriter Fred Wetherley Coate’s did indeed come up from Somerset and it was Redvers Coate, the company founder who did as much as anyone to move Somerset cider from the fields and into the cities. Unfortunately, a Google search on “Fred Wetherley” merely returns the same site, so his greatness may well be lost to future generations. ☹ **flano1** , you could always buy your friend [this](http://www.westcottdavid.com/Catalogue/120.html) jug with the singing yokels on it. Can’t say much for this site’s appraisal skills, however — they claim “circa 1900” for a jug advertising a company that didn’t exist before 1924, with the lyrics of a jingle that probably didn’t exist until the 1960s! (Perhaps you could ask for a discount if you point that out to them.) I can still remember the tune – if your friend needed reminding of it I could probably make an mp3 and e-mail it to her. This would be me singing it, however, not the original. So, unless she’s totally stumped as to the tune, she’s better off with her own memory… ---
**Author:** ![Lobbyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lobbyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobbyman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985/4 "2016-02-13T18:56:12Z")
In answer to to Coates Cider song, the song’s words were: “We always have Coates Cider, when we watch the TV show, 'cos Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985/5 "2016-02-13T21:14:44Z")
I see that the OP was at least logged in and on the site as lately as last month (January 2016) and has posted as recently as August 2015, so hopefully **flano1** will see this post. First, I’m sorry this took so long. Usually we answer this kind of query in well under an hour; this time it’s taken more than 13 years. In my defense, I wasn’t on the Dope back then. 😛 The song _We’ll All Come Up From Somerset_ (sometimes abbreviated as just _Up From Somerset_) dates back to the middle 1800s. The lyrics were written by Frederic Weatherly; the music composed by Wilfred Sanderson. The partially altered version used in the adverts was by Adge Cutler & The Wurzels. I wasn’t able to find a version of them singing the song, but there are videos of many other artists performing it available on YouTube; I prefer [Benjamin Luxon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDVTnLGdwx4). If you (or your friend) simply must see Adge Cutler & The Wurzels, I found [this advert for Coates Cider that features them performing their biggest hit, a song widely regarded as the anthem of Somerset, _Drink Up Thy Zider_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q6S92nLZO8). ETA: I sent **flano1** a PM as well as an email. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-somerset-poms-re-cider-song/155985/6 "2016-02-13T21:19:48Z")
The email address listed for **flano1** is defunct (no surprise for a 13+ year old email address), so hopefully he or she sees the PM.