Topic: Drinking Songs

Always looking for new ones to add to my already extensive collection.
I'll start off with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_e0RmoH … re=related

We pronounce it "Guf Coast".
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?

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Foxy Devil by Christy Moore A song about the iron behind the velvet

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Tom Waits - My Guitar Has Been Drinking
Trailer Choir - Rocken the Beer Gut

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Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down / Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard or Elvis Costello
What's the point of Gettin' Sober if you're gonna get drunk again / Joe Jackson
Old Red Eyes / The Beautiful South

Jerry

Live the life you love, love the life you live

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Tom T Hall - I Like Beer
Not sure - Bottle of Wine

Hank's prosepctive gutiar player said: "Mr Williams, I'm not sure I can play for you, the onliest chords I know are C D & G"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"

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Swinging Doors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxfgkDzL5Po

When the Power of Love overcomes The Love of Power the world will be a better place.

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Whitewater55, were you referring to "Bottle of Wine Fruit of the Vine"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-kdDPp2NE

We pronounce it "Guf Coast".
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?

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George Thorogood knows a thing or two about drinking songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gei7bzD-_Sk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzqQst-Sg8

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude

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I covered this tune by Pat Dailey on my "Signature Tunes" C.D.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XFIJadT9dM

We pronounce it "Guf Coast".
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?

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I've been working on Sangria Wine by Jerry Jeff Walker because my neighbor serves Sangria on Friday afternoons in the summer (the best time to be a neighbor in this neighborhood). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtpucp4H4Q

- Zurf

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude

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"Could'a been the whiskey"  Irish Rovers

"Your not drinkin enough"  Matt Minglewood

"The New Aberdeen Goverment Store"  Men of the Deeps.




badeye   cool

one caper after another

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It's official.  If he can do those songs live then Badeye has to come to the July river jam.  I'm starting the Badeye River Jam Scholarship Fund with $20.  Who else is in?

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude

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tequla sunrise by the eagles, Tear in my beer, Hank Williams Jr

my papy said son your going too drive me too drinking if you dont stop driving that   Hot  Rod  Lincoln!! Cmdr cody and his lost planet airman

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Zurf wrote:

It's official.  If he can do those songs live then Badeye has to come to the July river jam.  I'm starting the Badeye River Jam Scholarship Fund with $20.  Who else is in?

That river jam would be way too cool. I can do one of those tunes, june,july,and august are my busy months and be very hard to get away plus a passport. Thanks for thinking about me tho.


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one caper after another

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here's one for ya toots..   the master of the telecaster


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVfc8-Y … re=related



badeye   cool

one caper after another

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George Thorogood and the Destroyers:  "I drink alone"

But for good old fashioned pub/bar songs with a humorous twist.  John Roberts and Tony Barrand's album;  "Live at Holsteins!...Eat Bertha's Mussels."  I have the album and it's a treasure!!  smile

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badeye wrote:

here's one for ya toots..   the master of the telecaster


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVfc8-Y … re=related



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Great video, Badeye. Albert Collins finger picks a mess of lead guitar on his Telecaster and is one scary looking dude. He had that crowd right where he wanted them.
Quote Pat Dailey, "I ain't drink. I just been drunkin'."

We pronounce it "Guf Coast".
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?

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Kris Kristofferson/ To Beat the Devil--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTC26gcFSlo


Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge Whiskey, Whiskey...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVBuBhlKiTk

this isn`t really a drink`in song but got drink`in in it..

Joe Diffie/ Ships That Don't Come In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_kOkttIbs

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badeye wrote:

here's one for ya toots..   the master of the telecaster


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVfc8-Y … re=related



badeye   cool

I can't look at Albert Collins without first hearing "Nobody leaves this stage without singing the blues."  As I've said before my mind is filled with lyrics and movie clips (and sadly government regulations, but that part pays the bills).  Who remembers the movie the scene I'm thinking of comes from?  If you remember the lead actress, that'll be 125 extra points. 

- Zurf

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude

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tubatooter1940 wrote:

Whitewater55, were you referring to "Bottle of Wine Fruit of the Vine"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-kdDPp2NE

Yes, indeedy, I was. It was a big hit in the late 60's or early 70's. Can't recall the band that recorded it, though.
I play it regularly on my pub nights.
"I Like Beer" is simply awesome, especially the sing-a-long chorus.

Hank's prosepctive gutiar player said: "Mr Williams, I'm not sure I can play for you, the onliest chords I know are C D & G"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"

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Also, how about Willie and "Whiskey River", where he is actually singing the song to a bottle of whiskey.  That's some serious drinking right there when you start singing to the bottle.

I do "I Like Beer" as a campfire song.  It usually gets a few people singing along and a little clanking going on when people shift their chairs.  We went so late playing around the campfire last August with Dirty Ed that I fell asleep upright in my chair with my guitar on my lap.  It was the clanking bottles when someone got up to leave that woke me.  I hope I wasn't playing a song when I fell asleep.  That particular night my bottle was filled with Sweet Tea.

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude

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I'm not sure this qualifies as a drinking song, but it gets sung a lot when the liquor has been flowing. "Cover of the Rolling Stone"
After 8 beers or so around a campfire, that song, and "Mama's Got a Squeeze Bos" get sung and played, loudly, and, well drunkenly. Do they qualify as drinking songs? Personally, I only do them when I'm nearly snoggered.

Hank's prosepctive gutiar player said: "Mr Williams, I'm not sure I can play for you, the onliest chords I know are C D & G"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"

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"One Bud Wiser"  Gretchen Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs48MvGUnD4

Actually she's got quite a few, apparently she went from bartender to super star.  Her voice is a little extra twangy for my taste, but it's real and that's the part I like about it!  smile

Art and beauty are in the eyes of the beholder.
What constitutes excellent music is in the ears of the listener.

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That's cute, MKM. Never heard that one before.
A little nasal twang never hurt anybody.
There may be a place in a country drinking song medley for a few lines from that song.
Thanks

We pronounce it "Guf Coast".
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?

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WW55,cool! Any fun song is a drinking song when you're snoggered.

We pronounce it "Guf Coast".
Ya'll wanna go down to the Guf?