Drinking Songs?

[DarkHippie]

Why don't we have drinking songs in america? they look like so much fun.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

I rickrolled my local bar the other day. :lol:

[Coach]

Well we played a few drinking games to songs
James Taylor's Mexico and REM's (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Everytime Mexico and Rockville was said in the songs you drank half a beer.

[Slumbag]

I always like "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya" by Dropkick Murphys for a drinking song.

I don't think it actually is a drinking song, but it's a fun song to drink to.

[John Galt]

I have nothing to back this up, but I feel like once you travel below the 38-30 parallel, every drunken Southern lout is belting "Sweet Home Alabama." Personally, I'll go with "Dirty Old Town" by The Pogues every time.

[A.J.]

You never heard an entire bar sing along to Living On A Prayer?

[TjM]

I have gotten my bar to sing along to Rehabs "Bartender"

[GreatAmericanZero]

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[ANC]

Friggin' Piano Man and Margaritaville probably could be considered American drinking song, but bleck!:thumbdown:

I'd rather go with The Body Of An American Artist by The Pogues, not "American" but it is a great drining song...maybe because of watching the Wire, but it is a great tune!

Fuck that shit, Pretty much anything by The Pogues is a great drinking song.

[Boogie in Va]

I have gotten my bar to sing along to Rehabs "Bartender"

I love how everyone is now just getting in to this song. It has been around since 2000. It was on ReHab's 1st Cd - "Southern Discomfort". Check that one out.

As for drinking songs, AC/DC's "Have A Drink On Me" is always fun. Take a drink every time the phrase is said.

[ToiletCrusher]

anything by REO Speedwagon!

[TjM]

I love how everyone is now just getting in to this song. It has been around since 2000. It was on ReHab's 1st Cd - "Southern Discomfort". Check that one out.

As for drinking songs, AC/DC's "Have A Drink On Me" is always fun. Take a drink every time the phrase is said.


Never heard it untill it came ont he radio this summer. The videos are hysterical

[Gvac]

Doesn't anyone listen to Merle Haggard anymore?

[RhinoinMN]

Doesn't anyone listen to Merle Haggard anymore?

AMEN!!


Could be holding you tonight,
Could quit doing wrong, start doin' right.
You don't care about what I think.
I think I'll just stay here and drink.
Hey puttin' you down don't square no deal.
Least you know the way I feel.
Take all the money in the bank.
Think 'll just stay here and drink.

Listen close and you can hear,
That loud jukebox playin' in my ear.
Ain't no woman gonna change the way I think.
Think 'll just stay here and drink.

Hurtin' me now don't mean a thing.
Since lovin' you, don't feel no pain.
My mind ain't nothin' but a total blank.
I think I'll just stay here and drink, yeah.




I challenge anybody to listen to that and not want to get completely fucked up.

[FunkyDrummer]

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[ANC]

Doesn't anyone listen to Merle Haggard anymore?

"I don't know this Merle, I don't know what he does, I don't know what he lives on."

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[BronxJohnny]

Cocaine Blues is a must on the music box when at the bar, and I hangout in harlem. I'm a strong proponent to putting something different music wise in a bar compared to the patrons, also Sunday Morning Coming Down classic drinking music.

[RhinoinMN]

It pains me to say this, but if I walk into any heyseed bar around here (pretty much all of them), Friends in low places by Garth Brooks will play sometime between 1 and 2 in the morning.

[RhinoinMN]

Sunday Morning Coming Down classic drinking music.

I agree, but if I really want to come close to offing myself I prefer the Kristofferson (original) version.

[Gvac]

I agree, but if I really want to come close to offing myself I prefer the Kristofferson version.

This is seriously scary.

I've never felt so close to someone so far away. :wub:

[RhinoinMN]

This is seriously scary.

I've never felt so close to someone so far away. :wub:

One of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar was "To Beat the Devil".

Easy song, but I still have a hard time getting through it emotionally.:wub:

[Gvac]

One of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar was "To Beat the Devil".

Easy song, but I still have a hard time getting through it emotionally.:wub:

I know exactly what you mean. I don't think I've ever been able to play Jerry Jeff Walker's "Morning Song For Sally" or Townes Van Zandt's "Tecumseh Vally" all the way through without welling up.

[Misteriosa]

i heard a long time ago that the US national anthem is set to the tune of a drinking song... i dont know how true that is tho...

also, i find every flogging molly song a drinking song of some type :o

[Misteriosa]

i heard a long time ago that the US national anthem is set to the tune of a drinking song... i dont know how true that is tho...

also, i find every flogging molly song a drinking song of some type :o

there you have it...

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a London social club. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), set to various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner