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I'm looking for drinking songs - really GOOD drinking
songs. Epics, in fact, boozy poems if yol will

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

cold chisel "cheap wine"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" - Amos Milburn

― #1 Athlete, Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Alejandro Escovedo - "I Was Drunk"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The Doors: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"party till you puke"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i second jim! anything by Weill/Brecht.

― ken taylrr, Thursday, 5 February 2004 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"fucked up" by dead prez.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the winner:

THE POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKING (Lou Reed)
Some like wine and some like hops
But what I really love is my scotch
It’s the power, the power of positive drinking

Some people ruin their drinks with ice
And then they, they ask you for advice
They tell you, "I’ve never told anyone else this before"

They say, candy is dandy but liquor makes quipsters
And I don’t like mixers, or sippers or sob sisters
You know, you have to be real careful where you sit down
In a bar these days

And then some people drink to unleash their libidos
And other people drink to prop up their egos
It’s my burden, man, people say
I have the kind of face you can trust

The pow-pow-pow-pow-power of positive drinking
The pow-pow-pow-pow-power of positive
The pow-pow-pow-pow-power of positive
The pow-pow-pow-pow-power of positive
The pow-pow-pow-pow-power of positive drinking

Some people say alcohol makes you less lucid
And I think that’s true if you’re kind of stupid
I’m not that kind that gets himself burned twice

And some say liquor kills the cells in your head
And for that matter so does getting out of bed
When I exit, I’ll go out gracefully, shot in my hand

Unfortunately Lou ruined it all by joining AA and writing songs like "Underneath the Bottle" and "My Last Shot" - I blame his wife.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a good feeling-sorry-for-yourself drinking song:

THE BLACK SWAN (Jake Thackray)
Down at the Black Swan
we'll go sing our love song
we'll sit, we'll booze
we've got nothing to lose
we've lost it all, lost it all

Down at the Black Swan
we'll drink hard, we'll drink strong
drink deep, drink long,
drink our heads off, drink on
now that she's gone, now she's gone

Give us another pint, one more pint
of your very, very, best bitter beer
we'll be here all night

We're on a bender we're tanking up
we don't care
we don't go home tonight
there's nobody there

Now she's gone
Now she's gone
Now she's gone

Go to bed early girl
go with a book
go alone, go easy
your life is your own
don't lose it all, lose it all

Think on me kindly
but don't come and find me
I'm lost, I've lost heart
and eyes are both crossed
Now that she's gone, now she's gone

Give us another pint, one more pint
of your very very best bitter beer
we'll be here all night

We've had a skinful
we've supped some stuff
we don't care
we don't go home tonight
there's nobody there

Now she's gone
Now she's gone
Now she's gone

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pogues -- "Streams of Whiskey," "Sick Bed of Cuchulan" and many more.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

D.R.I.N.K. - Max Eider/ Jazz Butcher
Don't want to think
About how much I drink
It's a habit that's out of control
Hope I never get dry before I get old.
Soul Happy Hour - JBC
Whiskey Vodka Special Brew
All of this is good for you
Gin sling, Cointreau, brandy sour...
Blot right out! Soul happy hour!

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

so many Pogues songs: "Fiesta" is a particular favourite. And I think I've heard Spirit of the West's "Home for a Rest" in just about every bar I've been in.

― grapeshine, Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Drinking and Driving - The Business

A bunch of songs by Firewater

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Drink Beer - Chris TT

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Like Beer" - Tom T. Hall

― BrianB (BrianB), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Zander "Ich Trink' Auf Dein Wohl, Marie"

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

the best drinking song ever is DA FUNK by Daft Punk. Complete with boozy singing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Conjuring images of drunken SA men in dimly-lit bierkellers, sloshing steins of lager and recounting tales of beating up Communists and smashing the windows of Jewish businesses:

La Dusseldorf - Dampfriemen

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Divine Comedy - Drinking Song

― slacker, Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Country Music Television: Best Drinking Songs. Their numbering isn't what I'd pick, but this would make a hell of a comp for alcoholixxxx: http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/greatest_series/76611/episode_countdown.jhtml

― Begs2Differ, Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoops!
http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/greatest_series/76611/episode_countdown.jhtml

― Begs2Differ, Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Spike Jones and the City Slickers - Clink, clink, another drink

― Jole, Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)", Macca & Wings

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ween - "The Blarney Stone" is, without a doubt, THE GREATEST DRINKING SONG OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i second "the blarney stone"

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're going Pogues/McGowan songs, surely Streams of Whiskey and That Woman's Got Me Drinking...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

im a boozy chic and no one can stop that atittude i have. a Tequila shit with a smoke to hit on it. =)

― pInX, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

There Stands the Glass – Webb Pierce

― Mats Blomqvist (Blomqvist), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ooops! Forgot the most sublime of all:
Ya Ba Da Ba Do – George Jones:
Last night I broke the seal
On a Jim Beam decanter that looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone jelly bean jar
I cleared us off a place
On that one little table that you left us
And pulled me up a big ol' piece of floor
I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Ya ba da ba do
The King is gone
And so are you

― Mats Blomqvist (Blomqvist), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sally McLennane by the Pogues
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) by Tom Waits

skating across the linoleum....

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

King Tee and the Alkaholiks! - "I Got it Bad, Y'all"

has the best drunken call and response ever.

"What's ya favorite brew?"
"O.Eeeeeeeeeee!"
"And what it make ya do?"
"Go peeeeeeeee!"

see also, "Uncle Achin'" by the Shoulders.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

More Pogues ones - Boys from the County Hell, Transmetropolitan.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Drinkin Thing -- Gary Stewart

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Mats - "Here Comes A Regular"

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

matt elliott - the sinking ship song

― maarten maes (dice collective), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

chumbawumba tubthumping.......(i'm joking)

fear - more beer
black flag - 6 pack

― grapple (grapple), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

megadeth - 502
gg allin - sleeping in my piss

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

I Drink the Ocean, by the Prisoners

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

What? The Clancy Brothers don't get a single mention?
"Johnny McEldoo" at the start of the evening... and "Whiskey You're the Devil" when the funk of closing time (and the oncoming hangover train) bears down on you.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Chieftains - Here Is a Health To The Company

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

corny and catchy as fuck : the drinking song - by Akira the Don.

video is fun as well :

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/194529

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

when searching for charlie wills 'up to the rigs of london town'

http://www.drinkingsongs.net/mp3s/1950s/1950s-songs-of-seduction--alan-lomax-collector-(CD)/12%20-%20Up%20To%20The%20Rings%20Of%20London%20Town%20-%20Charlie%20Wills.mp3

i came across this site of drinking songs, with mp3 excerpts

http://www.drinkingsongs.net

― Filey Camp, Sunday, 8 July 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

The Balls of O'Leary
(Tune - Bells of Saint Mary's

The balls of O'Leary,
Are wrinkled and hairy,
They're stately and shapely,
Like the dome of Saint Paul's.
The women all muster,
To view that great cluster,
Oh, they stand and they stare,
At the bloody great pair,
Of O'Leary's balls.

― Bimble, Sunday, 8 July 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Merle Haggard to thread!

Could be holding you tonight,
Could quit doing wrong, start doing right
You don't care about what I think
I think I'll just stay here and drink

― Brad C., Sunday, 8 July 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

I love "Drinking Again" by Aretha and "How's My Drinking" by GBV (even more than "Drinker's Peace")

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

are the best drinking songs those that never had accompaniment

― Filey Camp, Monday, 9 July 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

" I first became familiar with this old ballad from the 1952 paperback book American Ballads: Naughty Ribald and Classic. I memorized the text that is printed there but did not learn the tune until 1999 from an episode of Star Trek: Then Next Generation where Lore (Data's brother) sings this song while doing something malicious to a control panel.

* Lore [Data's Brother]
o Star Trek: The Next Generation
+ Abul Abulbul Amir Time: 0:18
"

― Filey Camp, Monday, 9 July 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Barroom Hero by Dropkick Murphys or their take on Finnegan's Wake.
Guiness Boys - The Business.
Tale of Moran - Sheer Terror.
Have a drink on me - AC/DC
The Hard Stuff - HardSkin
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers - ZZ Top
Rock Pusher - The Nitwits (not about drinking per se but it always makes me want to chug a few back 8)

― Diablo_Rising, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

Barstool Mountain - Johnny Paycheck
(I climb up, on Barstool Mountain/ High above the world where there's no pain)
An Empty Bottle, a Broken Heart and you still on my Mind - Merle H
Swingin' Doors - Merle again

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Blom got George Jones' best upthread already, but he's got plenty more almost as fine, like:

Bartender's Blues
Tennessee Whiskey
Wine Colored Roses
If Drinking Don't Kill Me Her Memory Will
and of course:
White Lightning

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

These latest suggestions are making me kind of thirsty.

Hag and George Jones are what I think of first in this category, but depending on what and where the drinking is being done, the best song might be something like the Coltrane/Hartman version of "Lush Life."

― Brad C., Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Anything off this rowdy classic!

http://i13.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/a9/3b/dab0_1_b.JPG

― Rombald, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jokke's "Øl", obviously.

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Asylum Street Spankers - Beer

― bendy, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

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