Drink songs

[Lorelei]

Alchohol: BNL

Alcohol, my permanent accessory
Alcohol, a party-time necessity
Alchool, alternative to feeling like yourself
O Alcohol, I still drink to your health

I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol

Forget the caffe latte,
screw the raspberry iced tea
A Malibu and Coke for you, a G&T for me
Alcohol, Your songs resolve like
my life never will
When someone else is picking up the bill

I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol
O Alcohol, would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I'll use something else

I thought that Alcohol was just for those with
nothing else to do
I thought that drinking just to get drunk
was a waste of precious booze
But now I know that there's a time
and there's a place where I can choose
To walk the fine line between
self-control and self-abuse

I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol
Would you please ignore that you
found me on the floor
Trying on your camisole?
O Alcohol, would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I'll use something else

Would you please forgive me?
Would you please forgive me?

[lucimay]

stop me if you've heard this one
i feel as though we've met before
perhaps i'm mistaken

but it's just that i remind you
of someone you used to care about
but that was long ago
do you really think i'd fall for that old line
i wasn't born yesterday
besides i never talk to strangers anyway

i ain't a bad guy when you get to know me
i just thought there ain't no harm

hey just try minding your own business
bub who asked you to annoy me
with your sad sad repartee
besides i never talk to strangers anyway

your life's a dimestore novel
this town is full of guys like you
and you're looking for someone to take the place of her

and you're bitter cause he left you
that's why you're drinkin in this bar

well only suckers fall in love
with perfect strangers

it always takes one
to know one stranger
maybe we're just wiser now
and been around the block so many times
that we don't notice
that we're all just perfect strangers
as long as we ignore
that we all begin as strangers
just before we find
we really
aren't strangers
anymore


tom waits

[Menolly]

:::can't remember if we did this one already:::

In the corner of the bar there stands a jukebox
With the best of country music, old and new
You can hear your five selections for a quarter
And somebody else's songs when your's are through

I got good Kentucky whiskey on the counter
And my friends around to help me ease the pain
'Til some button-pushing cowboy plays that love song
And here I am just missing you again

Please, Mister, please, don't play B-17
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over
Please, Mister, please, if you know what I mean
I don't ever wanna hear that song again

If I had a dime for every time I held you
Though you're far away, you've been so close to me
I could swear I'd be the richest girl in Nashville
Maybe even in the state of Tennessee

But I guess I'd better get myself together
'Cause when you left, you didn't leave too much behind
Just a note that said "I'm sorry" by your picture
And a song that's weighing heavy on my mind

Please, Mister, please, don't play B-17
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over
Please, Mister, please, if you know what I mean
I don't ever wanna hear that song again

[Hound Of Chulainn]

The Pogues - The Sick-Bed Of CuChulainn

McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you, with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death-trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan bought you whisky in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some f**king black-shirt who was cursing all the Yids

At the sick-bed of CuChulainn, we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the Devil's in the chair

And in the Euston Tavern you, screamed it was your shout
But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again

At the sick-bed of CuChulainn, we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the Devil's in the chair

You remember that foul evening, when you heard the banshees howl?
There was lousy drunken bastards singing Billy's in the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church

Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and Paks and jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you'll stick your head back out and shout "we'll have another round"

At the graveside of CuChulainn, we'll kneel around and pray
And God is in His heaven, and Billy's down by the bay

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That's the song that my username and sig came from.

[lucimay]

ah yes...the Pogues...what would a drinkin song thread be without Shane MacGowan!!!


Now, my name is jock stewart
Im a canny gaun man,
And a roving young fellow, Ive been.

So be easy and free
When youre drinkin wi me.
Im a man you dont meet every day.

I have acres of land;
I have men at command;
I have always a shilling to spare.

Now, I took out my gun,
With my dog I did shoot,
All down by the river kildare

Im a piper by trade
And a roving young blade
And many a tune I do play

Let us catch well the hours
And the minutes that fly
And well share them together this day

So, come fill up your glasses
Of brandy and wine,
And whatever the cost, I will pay.

[danlo]

Neil Young-Barstool Blues

Barstool Blues

If I could hold on
To just one thought
For long enough to know
Why my mind is moving so fast
And the conversation is slow.
Burn off all the fog
And let the sun
Through to the snow
Let me see your face again
Before I have to go.

I have seen you in the movies
And in those magazines at night
I saw you on the barstool when
You held that glass so tight.
And I saw you in my nightmares
But I'll see you in my dreams
And I might live a thousand years
Before I know what that means.

Once there was a friend of mine
Who died a thousand deaths
His life was filled with parasites
And countless idle threats.
He trusted in a woman
And on her he made his bets
Once there was a friend of mine
Who died a thousand deaths.

[lucimay]

Captain Jim's Drunken Dream
james taylor

Well you country fools
in your one horse town
you can laugh at me
it's plain as rain
that you've never been down
to the southern sea
To see me now is like watching a fish
swimming on dry land
I only wish you could see me
down in the islands
Mister, that's my home.
What a fool I was to leave
the only happiness I've ever known

When you see me coming, you smile and wink
and call me Captain Jim
And when I don't do nothin' but walk on by
you say baby get a load of him

All I need is the sea and the sky
and I know where I stand
Instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks
calling me half a man
You'll never understand

You see up here I'm a whisky bum
but down there I'm a king
and it sounds just like the angels
up in heaven
When they sing

Welcome home, welcome home
You're such a sight to see
And not some sad Salvation Army sister
Singing "Nearer My God To Thee"

Now I know that your yankee whisky
has taken away my mind
and I know that rum is the only drink
suitable to mankind
and I know this tree I'm under
is shaped entirely wrong
I need to see a gentle palm tree
and I won't wait too long
I can feel that it's coming on strong
The first cold wind of winter
is flapping in my clothes
Showing me the way
with the direction that it blows

Welcome home, welcome home
You're such a sight to see
And not some sad Salvation Army sister
Singing "Nearer My God To Thee"

[danlo]

(Hoyt Axton)
Huh-huh! Huh-huh
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Aye-aye-aye-aye)

A lady that i know just came from columbia,
She smiled because i did not understand.
Then she held out some marijuana, ha ha!
She said it was the best in all the land.

And i said,
"no, no, no, no, i don't smoke it no more,
I'm tired of waking up on the floor.
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze,
And then it makes it hard to find the door."

(ah-ah-aye-aye)

A woman that i know just came from majorca, spain,
She smiled because i did not understand. (parazzi! Parazzi!) (ole!)
Then she held out a ten pound bag of cocaine,
She said it was the finest in the land.

And i said,
"no, no, no, no, i don't sniff it no more,
I'm tired of waking up on the floor.
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze,
And then it makes it hard to find the door."

(aye-aye-aye-aye)
(aye-aye-aye-aye)
(aye-aye-aye-aye)
(aye-aye-aye)

A man that i know just came from nashville, tennessee, oo, (oh no!)
He smiled because i did not understand.
Then he held out some moonshine whiskey, oh ho,
He said it was the best in all the land. (and he wasn't joking!!!)

And i said,
"no, no, no, no, i don't drink it no more,
I'm tired of waking up on the floor.
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze,
And then it makes it hard to find the door."

Well, i said,
"no, no, no, no, i can't take it no more,
I'm tired of waking up on the floor.
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze,
And then it makes it hard to find the door."

Hey yeh!


"i'll just have another drink, barman, have you got a large brandy?"

[StevieG]

I should have known there was a drinking song thread!! This one has been going through my head recently - and it looks as though Pogues has already featured heavily, but, bugger it!

On the first day of March it was raining
It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen
I drank ten pints of beer and I cursed all the people there
And I wish that all this raining would stop bombing down on me

And it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

At the time I was working for a landlord
And he was the meanest bastard that you have ever seen
And to lose a single penny would grieve him awful sore
And he was a miserable bollocks and a bitch's bastard's whore

And it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

I recall we took care of him one Sunday
We got him out the back and we broke his fucking balls
And maybe that was dreaming and maybe that was real
But all I know is I left that place without a penny or fuck all

And it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

But now I've the most charming of verandahs
I sit and watch the junkies, the drunks, the pimps, the whores
Five green bottles sitting on the floor
I wish to Christ, I wish to Christ
That I had fifteen more

And it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

And it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

The boys and me are drunk and looking for you
We'll eat your frigging entrails and we won't give a damn
Me daddy was a blue shirt and my mother a madam
And my brother earned his medals at Mai Lei in Vietnam

And it's lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

On the first day of March it was raining
It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen
Stay on the other side of the road
'Cause you can never tell
We've a thirst like a gang of devils
We're the boys of the county hell

And it's lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

And it's lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink
And mother wake me early in the morning

[Cagliostro]

No Tom Waits? I'll correct that now.

Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking

The piano has been drinking
My necktie's asleep
The combo went back to New York, and left me all alone
The jukebox has to take a leak
Have you noticed that the carpet needs a haircut?
And the spotlight looks just like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes
As usual the balcony's on the make
And the piano has been drinking, heavily
The piano has been drinking
And he's on the hard stuff tonight

The piano has been drinking
And you can't find your waitress
Even with the Geiger counter
And I guarantee you that she will hate you
From the bottom of her glass
And all of your friends remind you
That you just can't get served without her
The piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking
And the lightman's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
And he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking
Without fear of contradiction I say
The piano has been drinking

Our Father who art in ?
Hallowed by thy glass
Thy kindom come, thy will be done
On Earth as it is in the lounges
Give us this day our daily splash
Forgive us our hangovers
As we forgive all those who continue to hangover against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver from evil and someone you must all ride home

Because the piano has been drinking
And he's your friend not mine
Because the piano has been drinking
And he's not my responsibility

The bouncer is this Sumo wrestler
Kinda cream puff casper milk toast
And the owner is just a mental midget
With the I.Q. of a fencepost
I'm going down, hang onto me, I'm going down
Watch me skate across an acre of linoleum
I know I can do it, I'm in total control
And the piano has been drinking
And he's embarassing me
The piano has been drinking, he raided his mini bar

The piano has been drinking
And the bar stools are all on fire
And all the newspapers were just fooling
And the ash-trays have retired
And I've got a feeling that the piano has been drinking
It's just a hunch
The piano has been drinking and he's going to lose his lunch
And the piano has been drinking
Not me, not me, The piano has been drinking not me

[Cagliostro]

Tom Waits - Bad Liver And A Broken Heart

Well I got a bad liver and a broken heart
yea I drunk me a river since you tore me apart
and I don't have a drinking problem
cept when I can't get a drink
and I wish you'd a known her
we were quite a pair
she was sharp as a razor
and soft as a prayer
so welcome to the continuing saga
she was my better half
and I was just a dog
and so here am I slumped
I been chippied and I been chumped
on my stool
so buy this fool, some spirits and libations
it's these railroad station bars
with all these conductors and the porters
and I'm all out of quarters
and this epitaph is the aftermath
yea I choose my path
hey come on Cath, he's a lawyer
he ain't the one for ya
and no the moon ain't romantic
it's intimidating as hell
and some guy's tryin to sell
me a watch
and so I'll meet you at the
bottom of a bottle of
bargain scotch
I got me a bottle and a dream
it's so maudlin it seems

you can name your poison
go on ahead and make some noise
I ain't sentimental
this ain't a purchase it's a rental
and it's purgatory, hey
what's your story, well
I don't even care
cause I got my own double-cross to bear

and I'll see your Red Label
and I'll raise you one more
and you can pour me a cab
I just can't drink no more
cause it don't douse the flames
that are started by dames
it ain't like asbestos
it don't do nothing but
rest us assured
and substantiate the rumors
that you've heard

[Cagliostro]

I'm not entirely sure if this is a drinking song, but it's how I always interpreted it, particularly since Thunderbird is an old wino wine.

They Might Be Giants - Thunderbird

I know, I know, I said that I would quit
All right, I promise, no more after this
You don't know how I've tried
To forget what it was like

I remember now
I remember now
Why they called it Thunderbird
Why they called it Thunderbird

Man, oh man, my throat is dry
Man, are you thinking what I
Am? Well what about it then?

Before you fall, you have to learn to crawl
You can't see heaven when you're standing tall
To get the whole sky
On the ground you have to lie

I remember now
I remember now
Why they called it Thunderbird
Why they called it Thunderbird

We like fun, me and my girl
We'll have fun fun fun until
T-bird takes her dad away

I know, I know, I said that I'd desist
All right, I promise, no more after this
Not to be what I was like
Not to soar across the sky
Spread my thunder wings and fly
Spread my thunder wings and fly

I remember now
I remember now
Why they called it Thunderbird
Why they called it Thunderbird

[Cagliostro]

Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra - Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus?

I saw you sittin' there
I was tryin' not to stare
I wasn't sure if it was you
I didn't know just what to do

CHORUS
Are you drinkin' with me Jesus
I can't see you very clear
Are you drinkin' with me Jesus
Would you buy a friend a beer

As I nestled on my barstool
I felt your warmness within
I looked down at my pants
That wasn't warmness
I wet myself again

CHORUS

Does your head pound, Jesus
As hung over you do rise
How does paradise look, Jesus
Through holy bloodshot eyes

Should we take a cab home Jesus
Man, we can hoof it from here
I know you can walk on the water
But can you walk on this much beer

Are you drinkin' with me Jesus
I can't see you very clear

[stonemaybe]

I'm not entirely sure if this is a drinking song, but it's how I always interpreted it, particularly since Thunderbird is an old wino wine

Oi! We used to drink that as teenagers! I wonder if it's the same stuff this side of the Atlantic?

The Wurzels: Drink Up Thy Cider

Drink Up Thy Zider George,Pass Us Round The Jug
Drink Up Thy Zider George,Thy Garden's Well Nigh Dug
There's Dung All O'er Thy Tater's And Half Way Up Thy Gater's
And There's Still More Zider In The Jug

CHORUS:-
Drink Up Thy Zider, Drink Up Thy Zider
For Tonight We'll Merry Be
We'll Knock The Milkmaids Over And Roll 'em In The Clover
The Corns Half Cut And So Are We

Drink Up Thy Zider George,Thee's Been Going Far
Drink Up Thy Zider George,Thee's Getting Quite A Star
Thy Cheeks Are Getting Redder,From Charterhouse To Cheddar
And There's Still More Zider In The Jar

CHORUS:-

Drink Up Thy Zider George,Get Up Off The Mat
Drink Up Thy Zider George, Put On Thy Gurt Big Hat
We're Going To Ballyverney, To See My Brother Ernie
And There's Still More Zider In The Vat

CHORUS:-

Drink Up Thy Zider George,Get It Off Thy Chest
Drink Up Thy Zider George,It's Time We Had A Rest
There's Nothing Like More Zider To Make Thy Smile Grow Wider
And There's Still More Zider In The West

CHORUS:-

CHORUS:-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2F_K546qg

[Vader]

Cute:

Pauly The Dog
(Agnostic Front)

Well he's not very handsome to look at.
And he eats just like a hog.
And he's always drinkin' my beer up.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.

Well, he's not very pretty to look at.
And he smells just like a hog.
And he's always drinkin' and fighting.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.
Heyyyyyy Pauly the beer drinkin' dog.

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The winner has to be Boston based hardcore-punk band GANG GREEN with their 1986 classic ALCOHOL:

We're gonna die when the sun comes up
We'll drink until we drop
My blood is 100 proof
We're gonna stumble twist and crawl
99 bottles of beer on the wall
I'd rather drink than f*ck

No doubt about it I can't live with out it
No doubt about it I can't live with out it alcohol, alcohol

It is my destiny

You've got the beer we've got the time
You've got the coke gimme a line

No doubt about it I cant live with out it
No doubt about it I cant live with out it alcohol, alcohol

We're gonna die when the sun comes up
We'll drink until we drop
Id rather drink than f*ck
You've got the beer we've got the time
You've got the coke gimme a line

No doubt about it I can't live with out it
No doubt about it I can't live with out it alcohol

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Also essential:

A Tale of Moran
(Sheer Terror)

Who's doing shots of mouthwash?
Who's puking up their dues?
Who's scr*wing on the top bunk?
And who fell off their shoes?
Who's smashing up the longnecks
Along the firewall?
Who's busting rails and breaking wind
In the bathroom stall?

We've worn out our welcome in every bar in town.
But before we get thrown out again, we'll burn this sh*thouse down.
We know we ain't too pretty, and we know we're outta line
And we're outta luck, but who gives a f*ck, we never spent a dime!

Who's dancing with a bar rag?
And singin' Elvis with the band?
Who's putting out their cigarrettes
on the back of someone's hand?
Who's playing with a Zippo
And a bottle of 151?
And who's going out for 'Loco
When the new day has just begun?

Those were the times I treasure most,
As screwy as they are.
Goin' out for days on end and stinkin' like a bar.
But then one got buried and another turned
Who used to be one of the slobs.
Now he's on the take and he's cutting off
'cause he says it's part of his job

C'mon, buddy, what's the fuss?
You know you're still one of us.
Stop acting like a worried mom.
C'mon, Let's go wake up Tom!
We'll crank the jukebox up real high
And have one on the little guy.
What's said is said, what's done is done.
Now shut up, drink up, be someone! (repeat)

Those days are no longer.
They're over, dead, and gone.
We ain't allowed in one place.
And where the hell is Tom?

So let the tap flow freely
And let the music play.
Let's have another round on Hank
'Cause he would've done it this way!

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The Irish Drinking Song
(Buck-O-Nine)

Well i stumbled in at 2 a.m. all drunk and full of smoke
My wife said i have had enough, im sick, thats it, get out!
So i stumbled down to kellys pub across the edge of town
And i told the boys me story and we had another round

We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
And if i see a pretty girl, ill sleep with her tonight!
We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!

And mary mcgregor, she was a pretty whore
She'd always greet you with a smile and never lock her door
But on the day she died, all the men in town did weep
For mary mcgregor finally got some sleep

We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
And if i see a pretty girl, ill sleep with her tonight!
We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!

Well i once loved a girl, a child im told
I gave her my heart and she gave me a cold
So now i sit standing here out in the pouring rain
Ill stumble back to kellys pub and cry away me pain

We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
And if i see a pretty girl, ill sleep with her tonight!
We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!