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Top 'drinking' songs
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 08-25-09

Posted on 08/25/2009 7:38:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: Joe 6-pack

Thin Lizzy does it better.


41 posted on 08/25/2009 8:23:24 AM PDT by TexasBeth
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To: NonValueAdded

Oh my ... the drunken sailor brings back memories.

I had the good fortune, or bad fortune, depending on view point a young Navy CPO that got to cross deck to a Aussie detroyer.

I never knew there were so many drinking songs and ditties, every port we hit I learned knew .. and I swear that some were made up as we went. Most had some sort of activity involved .. such as diving under the table. Last one still above the table top bought rounds. I paid dearly until I learned the trick .. watch the singer take a deep breath before the next phrase and head for under the table .... nevr did figure half of em out.

NEVER NEVER NEVER ... EVER go out drinking with Aussie Sailors. “Hay maite ..letz go geddah “Poat o pizz” It will be the last thing you remember .. maybe for days.


42 posted on 08/25/2009 8:24:39 AM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; ...

3 hours of streaming booze songs. (New Year’s Eve radio broadcast)

Fool’s Paradise with Rex: Booze Songs special! This fully-fermented program with feature three broadcast hours of booze songs from the unsung heroes of rock ‘n roll. From December 31, 2005. Listen to the whole show (in streaming Real Audio)

http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=17567&archive=24777


Note absolute coincidence (no relation) between the name of this program and this account...


43 posted on 08/25/2009 8:25:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Coming to Marxists' Vineyard this 2009 - Wee Wee's Big Adventure.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Is the Hold Muh Beer PING list still active?


44 posted on 08/25/2009 8:26:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Coming to Marxists' Vineyard this 2009 - Wee Wee's Big Adventure.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Moxy Fruvous - "The Drinking Song"

simply the best ever.

O.A.R. - "Crazy Game of Poker"

very close 2nd.

45 posted on 08/25/2009 8:28:09 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Pan_Yan
“Have a Drink on Me” by AC/DC or am I the only person here who was of that age in the 80’s?

Yes, that one works. It is a bit different, though - the song stands out as a warm tribute to their former frontman... and that's on an album that was intended in part to be a "wake" for Bon Scott.

Based on the lyrics alone, Have A Drink On Me seems like a great drinking tune. For me, though, it comes off as a bit maudlin (despite the band's intentions that it be celebratory of the way Bon lived).

Great song, though. Just a bit deeper in meaning than the average drinking tune.

46 posted on 08/25/2009 8:32:50 AM PDT by Charles Martel (NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Revelry of the Dying
AIR: “Away with Melancholy”

We meet ‘neath the sounding rafters,
And the walls around are bare.
As they echo our peals of laughter,
It seems that the dead are all there.

Chorus:
So stand by your glasses steady,
This world is a world of lies.
Here’s a toast to the dead already;
Hurrah! for the next man who dies.

Cut off from the land that bore us
Betrayed by the land we find.
All the good men have gone before us
And only the dull left behind.
Chorus

Who minds to the dust returning?
Who shrinks from the sable shore,
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of the soul shall be no more?
Chorus

In flaming Spads and Camels
With wings made of wood and steel
We gamble for stakes that are mortal
With cards that are stacked for the deal.
Chorus

We loop in the purple sunset
We spin in the silver dawn;
With a plume of smoke behind us
To show where our comrades have gone
Chorus

Time was when we frowned on others,
We thought we were wiser then;
But now let us all be brothers,
For we never may meet again.
Chorus

But a truce to this mournful story,
For death is a distant friend.
So here’s to a life of glory,
And a laurel crown each at the end.
Chorus


47 posted on 08/25/2009 8:40:11 AM PDT by Little Ray (Obama is a kamikaze president aimed at the heart of this Republic.)
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To: Blind Eye Jones
Dwight Yoakum

Two doors down, there's a barstool,

That knows me by name......(snip)

From the hotel, to the barroom

is just a stumble, and a fall

Sometimes when it gets bad

I've been known to crawl.... ;-)

48 posted on 08/25/2009 8:41:04 AM PDT by MrPiper
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To: Responsibility2nd
Bottle of Wine by The Fireballs
49 posted on 08/25/2009 8:46:25 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Joe 6-pack
This is an Irish classic covered by Metallica.

With all respect, it's an Metallica's cover of Thin Lizzy's cover of an Irish classic.

Thin Lizzy's version

50 posted on 08/25/2009 8:48:31 AM PDT by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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To: mak5

mak5,
My goodness, we must have gone to the same bar together. Those songs were basically on a loop in a beer joint I enjoyed during my college years in the 70’s.


51 posted on 08/25/2009 9:29:16 AM PDT by GoreFreeTN (Keep the change, I want my dollars back.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"The Body of An American" (aka Free Born Man of the USA) by the Pogues

"Fairytale of New York" (BEST Christmas eve drinking song EVER) by the Pogues

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (for drinking on ANZAC Day) by the Pogues

52 posted on 08/25/2009 9:34:15 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: irishtenor
SNL's Irish Drinking Songs Skit

You might recognize a very young Conan O'Brien in that one.

53 posted on 08/25/2009 9:34:41 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Responsibility2nd

Of course, my ALL TIME fave: “Friggin in the Riggin” (aka on the Good Ship Venus). This is a 19th Century English drinking song, with the best version being by Robert Biggs and the Sex Pistols.


54 posted on 08/25/2009 9:36:12 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A few more to consider....

“Whiskey Hangover” - Godsmack
“Whiskey on the Rocks” - Ac/dc
“Gin and Juice” - The Gourds (it’s actually a great cover originally done by Snoop Dog)
“Me and Wine” - Def Leppard
“NIghtrain” - Gun n Roses
“Cold Gin” - Kiss


55 posted on 08/25/2009 9:40:01 AM PDT by fightin bronco (Life's too short to drink cheap beer)
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To: Responsibility2nd

DOUGH... the stuff...that buys me beer...

RAY..... the guy that sells me beer...

ME...... the guy... who drinks the beer,

FAR..... the distance to my beer

SO...... I think I’ll have a beer...

LA...... La la la la la la beer

TEA..... no thanks, I’m drinking beer...

That will bring us back to...

D’OH!


56 posted on 08/25/2009 9:40:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Drinking Song" from "Student Prince."
"White Lightning"
57 posted on 08/25/2009 9:44:56 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Responsibility2nd

“One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” - Amos Milburn
“My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” - Hank Williams Sr.
“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-dee-o-dee” - Jerry Lee Lewis
“Barrels Round (Beer Beer We Want More Beer)” - The Macc Ladds
“Have a Beer with Fear” - Fear
“One Mint Julip” - The Clovers


58 posted on 08/25/2009 9:54:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Responsibility2nd

Two beers away from a beautiful day....


59 posted on 08/25/2009 10:46:41 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Liberty Valance

Jedi drinking song lol


60 posted on 08/25/2009 11:11:48 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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