Best drinking songs...

Ok, so I was singing my daughter to sleep last night, singing her some old Tom Waits songs, and I got to thinking...

What are people's favorite drinking songs? Either songs directly about drinking, or songs that they like to listen to when they've had a few.

She went out under my piss-poor rendition of Waits' "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart," which I would have to consider to be, at least for me, the epitome of a pure, broken down, alone-in-a-bar-at-closing-time pathos. Pretty much all old Tom Waits falls into this, I suppose. I'm wondering what else people either really want to listen to when they've had a few, or what songs just bring out those same sentiments.

That song they sing in Jaws when they're inside the boat drinking and sharing scar stories when Jaws starts to break in.

Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it got right to my head....

"Kiss Me I'm Sh!tfaced" by the Murphys is a favorite of mine.

"I Like Beer" by Tom T. Hall Greatest beer-drinking song ever? I think so!

Ole by Bouncing Souls

Bottles to the Ground by NOFX comes to mind, although ive never drank to it.
Anything by Weezer...

Wild Rover (No Nay Never)

I've been a wild rover for many a year
And I spent all my money on whiskey and beer,
And now I'm returning with gold in great store
And I never will play the wild rover no more.

cho: And it's no, nay, never,
No nay never no more,
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more.

I went to an ale-house I used to frequent
And I told the landlady my money was spent.
I asked her for credit, she answered me "nay
Such a custom as yours I could have any day."

cho:

I took from my pocket ten sovereigns bright
And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight.
She said "I have whiskey and wines of the best
And the words that I spoke sure were only in jest."

cho:

I'll go home to my parents, confess what I've done
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.
And if they caress (forgive) me as ofttimes before
Sure I never will play the wild rover no more.

cho:


ETA: This uh... proves my point

My brothers and I sing Jared, the butcher of song

Would it be too cliche to say Jimmy Buffet's "Why don't we get drunk...."

Descendents - Catalina
Hank Williams -Tear in my beer
KINGS - THIS BEAT GOES ON
Sloppy Seconds - So F@^$%ed Up
Teenage Head - Let's Shake
B.F.G. - Alcholiday Turned Alcoholcaust
Dayglo Abortions - Drink Beer, smoke pot, play music
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge

..and of course anything by Poison Idea.

Jerry Jeff Walkers' "You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin"

oh wait that's a sing along drunk song.

I prefer AC/DC when drinking

this one sounds good however, gonna have to download it:
Dayglo Abortions - Drink Beer, smoke pot, play music :rockin:

BrewProject said:

this one sounds good however, gonna have to download it:
Dayglo Abortions - Drink Beer, smoke pot, play music :rockin:

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Let know what u think of it...

If you can't find it...I'll send it via msn.

Axegod said:

Let know what u think of it...

If you can't find it...I'll send it via msn.

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found it, trying to download now... i will let you know, :rockin:

"Drink to the Dead" by Clutch. I had part of it as my sig for quite a while.

Todd Snider "beer run" b dubble e dubble R-U-N beer run
Macc Lads "Barrels Round"
Macc Lads "alcohol"

"You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three" - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
"Beer Song" - Reel Big Fish
"It's Martini Time" - Reverend Horton Heat

...and pretty much anything Dean Martin sings. I don't know why it is, but I LOVE listening to Dean-o whenever I have a good buzz going.

Roll out the barrel... POLKA

G. Cretin said:

Todd Snider "beer run" b dubble e dubble R-U-N beer run

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all we need is a 10 and a fiver,
a car, and a key, and a sober driver
b dubble e dubble R U N beer run!

The Doors--Whiskey Bar.

HurricaneFloyd said:

all we need is a 10 and a fiver,
a car, and a key, and a sober driver
b dubble e dubble R U N beer run!

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A couple of frat guys from Abeline drove in all night to see Robert Earl Keen At the K pig swine and sworay dance they wore baseball caps and khaki pants they wanted ciggaretts so to save a little money they bummed one of a hippie that smelld kind of funny and the next they knew they both really hungry and pretty thirsty too...

BrewProject said:

Jerry Jeff Walkers' "You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin"

oh wait that's a sing along drunk song.

I prefer AC/DC when drinking

this one sounds good however, gonna have to download it:
Dayglo Abortions - Drink Beer, smoke pot, play music :rockin:

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Jerry Jeff Walker...yea! "Pissin in the Wind..."

But you meant "You never even called me by my name" by David Allen Coe right? Written by Steve Goodman? aka: The perfect country and western song?

Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash

It's not about drinkin', but it still mentions prison, mama, and trains. Last weekend one of my buds had his wedding reception at the brewpub he brews at. He broke out a 3 year old RIS so we were good & trashed by the time that song came on the jukebox.

Isn't is amazing how much better you can sing when you're drunk?:rockin:

My second vote - Five Shots of Whiskey by Hank Williams III

This one IS about drinkin', as are pretty much all of Hank III's songs. That man sure likes his whiskey.

On a side note, I'm in the middle of brewing and decided to go through some old CD's.

I just put in Me So Horney by 2 Live Crew

For some reason, my wife always gets pissed when I play that.

Exo said:

But you meant "You never even called me by my name" by David Allen Coe right? Written by Steve Goodman? aka: The perfect country and western song?

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yea, yea, that's what i meant... thanks for the correction..

alemonkey said:

On a side note, I'm in the middle of brewing and decided to go through some old CD's.

I just put in Me So Horney by 2 Live Crew

For some reason, my wife always gets pissed when I play that.

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Ha! My wife (g/f at the time, still SWMBO) made me throw away all my old 2Live Crew. "You're never going to listen to that again, ARE YOU?!"

It's so bad, it'd not pornographic in that Cheesefood way, it's pornographic in that 12-year-old-who-once-got-into-his-brother's-stash kind of way. So absurdly amateurish.

"Boys on the Docks" by the Murphys comes to mind for me. I grew up on "Do or Die" so its way up there, probably tied for best Murphy's album with "Sing Loud, Sing Proud". Plus we used to drink to it in college...a lot.

Um, just check out my sig- nuff said!

I 'ain't drunk (I'm just drinkin)
I drink alone

Anything by the Pogues.

Agree with you about The Pogues, Gaelone...

One song I always like to listen to while drinking is Home for a Rest, by Spirit of the West.

If you haven't heard it, it's a great song about the band pub-crawling through England and needing to go home for a rest (from all the drinking.)

"Alcohol, My only Friend" by Trouble is

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere--Neil Young

G. Cretin said:

A couple of frat guys from Abeline drove in all night to see Robert Earl Keen At the K pig swine and sworay dance they wore baseball caps and khaki pants they wanted ciggaretts so to save a little money they bummed one of a hippie that smelld kind of funny and the next they knew they both really hungry and pretty thirsty too...

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found a store with a sign-said there beer was coldest-
so they sent in Brad- cause he looked the oldest-

he got a case of beer and a candy bar-
walked over to where all them registers are

layed his fake id on the countertop
the clerk looked, he turned up, he looked he stopped.
he said "son, I'm not gonna call the cops,

but I am gonna have to keep this card"-
.......the guys both took it pretty haard





Todd Snider Rulez!!

The other day I was driving along with my daughter in the back and flipping through the channels. I came to a polka show, and wouldn't you know it, In Heaven There Is No Beer by Frankie Yankovic came on. My daughter (who is 2) started grooving in her car seat and yelling "Dance Daddy, Dance".

Now THAT's a drinking song.

She also sings along to Master of Puppets by Metallica. That kid has good taste in music.

Whiskey in a jar (exspecialy when sung by my 4 y/o)
1 Burbon, 1 Scotch, 1 Beer

alemonkey said:

She also sings along to Master of Puppets by Metallica. That kid has good taste in music.

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My 18-month old starts headbanging - isn't it awesome? She's more into punk than metal, but ANYTHING with any kind of groove she gets into. Hell, she just hears some random noise somewhere and starts dancing to it.

Not really punk OR metal, butr this is her getting down to The Getaway People a few months back...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5870965514302698613&q=shannon+farley&hl=en

As far as kids and music go, my 4yo daughter sings along to The Who - Live at Leeds.


For drinking songs: Man I can't believe nobody has mentioned the ultimate bush-party song (aka The Provicial Anthem of Saskatchewan):

Copperhead Road!

"Him'n my uncle tore that engine down..."

Copperhead Road is one of the great songs of all time, IMHO. Hell, anything by Steve Earle pretty much kicks ass. I wasted many a night in my teenage years getting blasted on Busch Lite or Jack Daniels and jamming to that song. (Long before I discovered the joys of good beer). Yes, I was a hooligan.

Heh...tonight I put in Seas of Cheese by Primus. My daughter danced like I've never seen her dance before. She especially liked Tommy the Cat after I told her it was a song about kitties.:rockin:

Any Pogues song...Willie nelson's 'whiskey river' is probably my fav drinking song or song about drinking (wait, what was the question?) I saw Willie play live a few years ago and not only did he open with 'whiskey' but he closed with it and I swear he played it somewhere in the middle of the set too.

"Titties and Beer"
- Frank Zappa