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post #1 of 43
4/7/11 at 11:50pm
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I just caught Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do" on the radio. It's about hardcore drunks and implies that the serious drinkers really aren't having fun, despite the song's refrain.

That reminded me of an old favorite - "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas," by Commander Cody. Also reminded me of George Thorogood's classic "One Shot, One Bourbon, One Beer," and Lefty Frizzell's "Sick, Sober and Sorry."

So I thought it might be fun to start a thread about hard drinking songs. What's your favorite song about having a few drinks? This doesn't have to be about country, anything that references hard drinking is appropriate.
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post #2 of 43
4/8/11 at 1:21am
The Doors - Alabama song comes to mind. The Wild Rover is a good one as well.
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post #3 of 43
4/8/11 at 7:26am

"I Got Loaded" - Little Bob & the Lollipops OR Los Lobos

 

"One for My Baby (And One More For The Road)" - Billie Holiday OR Frank Sinatra


Edited by tru blu - 4/8/11 at 7:31am
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post #4 of 43
4/8/11 at 7:35am

The Pogues "Gartloney Rats" and there's another one about being drunk on a ferry that I can't find at the moment.

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post #5 of 43
4/8/11 at 8:07am

"Since I Started Drinkin' Again" by Dwight Yoakam.  There's another one by BR5-49, but I can't remember exactly which one now.  Something about going to the store to buy some bread and being distracted by the smell of beer.

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post #6 of 43
4/8/11 at 9:25am

"99 bottles of beer on the wall. 99 bottles of beer..." lol

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post #7 of 43
4/8/11 at 9:37am

Erice Clapton's " Bottle of Red Wine"

 

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post #8 of 43
4/8/11 at 9:52am

Not to throw off the thread but would it be nice to add drug related songs also? There are plenty of those. "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" being my favorite. Clapton's cover of "Cocaine" being another.

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post #9 of 43
4/8/11 at 9:53am

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"

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post #10 of 43
4/8/11 at 10:04am

^ Thats what I was thinking of, especially the George Thorogood version.

 

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post #11 of 43
4/8/11 at 10:51am

From a classic album.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea-MVgC_jz4

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post #12 of 43
4/8/11 at 11:02am

My personal favorite is "The King is Gone...and so are You" by George Jones.  It's a quintessentially country song about a man who is sitting around his now empty apartment after his woman has left him, with nothing but a "Jim Beam decanter that looks like Elvis" and a "Flintstone jelly-bean jar".

 

The chorus:

 

"Ah pulled the heyd awff Eyl-vis...filled Freyd uh-up to hi-is payelvis...Yabba Dabba Doo!  The king is gaw-aw-awne....and so are you."

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post #13 of 43
4/8/11 at 12:31pm

 

Rory Gallagher - Too much alcohol

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post #14 of 43
4/8/11 at 12:33pm

Are you drinking with me Jesus?- Mojo Nixon..

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post #15 of 43
4/8/11 at 1:49pm

"Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" - Stick McGhee OR Jerry Lee Lewis (…"pass that bottle to me"…)

 

"Red Red Wine" - UB40 (written by Neil Diamond, though I don't much care for his version)

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