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''They ask me about things I just don't know. It was 2000 brain cells ago ..
''every night when we go drink, I don't care what people think
And the answers always waiting at the liquor store, 40 oz. to Freedom, so I'll take that walk.

A

We're drinking till none of our livers are left...
one summer evening drunk to hell I sat there nearly lifeless...
''We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you now why...
Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself...
''you had some of the best times you'll never remember with me...
"demon alcohol, sad memories I can recall..."
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday...
''We cooked a pig in the ground, we got some beer on ice,
''And all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight.
  • "All The Tequila In Tijuana" by Kevin Fowler
Goin down to Mexico and drinkin 'em dry...
''In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks
And he drinks and he drinks and he drinks once again...
Alkohol ist ein Fallschirm und ein Rettungsboot...
Here I sit at the fire.
Liquor's bitter flames warm my languid soul Here I drink alone and remember. A graven life, the stain of her memory In this cup, love's poison For love is the poison of life Tip the cup, feed the fire, And forget about useless hope. . . In this cup, spiritus frumenti For this is the nectar of the spirit Quench the thirst, drown the sorrow And forget about cold yesterdays. . .

B

He's drinking, carousing and living a life of sin...
Tom Greene's whiskey put a good shine on the moon / They kept some underneath the counter in all the reputable saloons
A broken nose and a broken heart, an empty bottle of gin
''If I get to where I'm passed out on the floor now baby, you won't bother me no more
''But if you're drinkin' then you know that you're my friend and I say, I think I'll have myself a beer.
I can kiss and hug it, but I'd rather chug it...
''I ain't ate a bite since the night
''That you said we're through
Just bring me beer and kisses / We'll get high on love and foam
  • "Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers" by ZZ Top
''With my can of dinner
''Going 90 mile an hour toward that county line
''Quick sack, 12 pack, back again
''It's a B-double E-double are you in?
''Yeah life's too short, let's get to livin' it
I would give you one of my beers... but I've only got 6!
''Life looks good, good, good...
I am on a binge / Wish that things would change / Wish they'd rearrange / I'm on a binge.
First I drank the whiskey
Then I drank the gin
I tried to make the toilet
And I broke my fuckin shin
''Mouth is dry/ Face is numb..."
''Young man sitting in the old man's bar waiting for his turn to die..."

C

...will get you high tonight...
''I've a head like a concertina. I've a tongue like a button-stick.
I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick...
''And your beer bottle pocket
''Sad is the man who drinks with himself to forget the day that precedes
''Sad turns to happy, from happy to bitter, that bitter old man is me...
''Make you want to holler hi-de-ho
''Burns your tummy, don'tcha know
  • "Cigarettes & Alcohol" by Oasis
I was lookin' for some action, but all I found was cigarettes and alcohol...
  • "Cigarettes, Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women" by Jim Croce
''They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane
One last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer . . .
''My head may go reeling
I'm sorry I'm late, I was out spoiling my liver.
My daddy he made whiskey...

D

''The alcohol the demerol these things never could replace
''What a minute with you could do to put a smile on my face/
''Phenobarbitol and alcohol these two surely will do
''To knock me out keep me down at least a day or two
My cat died and I quickly poured myself some gin
''I didn't always hit the gin,
There were times when I fit in
  • "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)" by Loretta Lynn
''Just stay out there on the town and see what you can find
''The drink you drown your troubles in is the trouble you're now in
  • "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time" by Mickey Gilley
''Ain't it funny, ain't it strange,
''The way a man's opinion changes
''When he starts to face that lonely night.
You're a lush, that's what you are!
Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand...
''I want to
''Drink more beer
''Until I
Puuuuke
''it's only when them start drunk them have a next side
come like when you watch man Jekyll and Hyde...
''Drink till i'm dreamin' a thousand miles out of my mind...
''The drinkin' bone is connected to the party bone
''The party bone's connected to the stayin' out all night long
''I'm just sittin here thinkin', sittin' here drinkin' bout you...
''It loosens your tongue but it never tells the truth...
Sittin' on a bar stool actin' like a darn fool That's what I'm a doin' today...
To keep from thinkin things...
Pass that bottle to me!
  • "Drinking Alone on my 21st Birthday" by Sunshine Policy)
  • "Drinking Beers with Mom" by Lach
  • "Drinking and Driving" by Black Flag
  • "Drinking is Our Way of Life" by The Casualties
  • "Drinking on the Job" by The Rainmakers
The bricklayer got plastered, the mechanic got tanked...
I kissed a drunk girl I kissed a drunk girl yes i did kissed a drunk girl on the lips...''
''Some threw roses at your feet
''And watch you pass out on the street...
I'm a drunken hearted man, my life seem so misery...

E

This song features two different references to drinking:
  • Just take the wine and shout
  • I'll stand here at the bar, I'll hold an empty glass
  • Empty glasses, there's just ice cubes. Where's the waitress? Where's my other shoe?

F

''So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying on an old family tradition
''Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away...

G

Cover of the Snoop classic
Stay away from me cause I'm in my gin...
You can't help but laugh as he gags and falls down...
''Like I explained to y'all before, I ain't no drinkin' man,
''But temptation got the best of me and I took a slash.
A is for Absolut, Beer comes from brewers, C is for Cognac and D stands for Dewars
"Good Ale" by Peter Warlock
''I want to thank you Lord
''For givin' me all of them
''To get me by
Excuse me please, one more drink..'Cause I don't need to think

H

I swear I'll never drink again - again...
Forget about the pretty girl, a Saranac will do just fine...
You mix up a good concoction, the coca-cola's just for color, buddy you're not fooling anyone...
How does it feel to have your own bottle of booze behind the bar...
''Him in his sombrero, her in her purty pink jammies...
I am just a boy who can't say no
Things are so much clearer in a haze
Even if you're in the arms of someone's baby now
I'll take a great big whiskey to you anyway
''Draw one, two, three more glasses of beer...
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times
I've been drunk for a (week/month),
I've been drunk since I left.
... I'm so sick from the drink, I need home for a rest.
... Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats.
... The spirits we drank have left ghosts in the room.
''... She teases and flirts as the pubs all close down,
then walks us on home and denies us a round.
  • "However Much I Booze" by The Who
    • Have to drench myself in brandy
    In sleep I'll hide
    But however much I booze
    There ain't no way out...
    • "The Hymn For The Alcohol" by Hefner
    It is just wishful thinking that all this hard drinking might lure you back

    I

    Just me and good buddy Wiser, that's all I ever need...
    ''I get no kick from champagne
    ''Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all...
    ''But there's more old drunks than there are old doctors
    So I guess we'd better have another round...
    ''It's my kind of place. Just walkin' through the front door puts a big smile on my face...
    You ask me why I'm drunk all the time, it levels my head and eases my mind...
    ''Ain't no woman gonna change the way I think...
    ''Call all the rich and the poor, the peace keepers and the warlords
    ''We'll cut some deals over nothing more than a shot of 90 proof
    • "I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home" by David Frizzell
    I came crawling home last night, like many nights before...
    • "In Heaven There Is No Beer" (translation/adaption of German Boehemian polka "Im Himmel gibt's kein Bier"
    ''In heaven there is no beer,
    ''That's why we drink it here...
    ''Drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and fight!!!
    ''Pour me something tall and strong
    ''Make it a Hurricane before I go insane
    ''It's only half past 12, but I don't care
    ''It's 5 o'clock, somewhere...
    ''The drink I had three hours ago
    has been joined by 14 others in a steady flow...

    J

    ''Ten thousand old bottles I killed in my time...
    I fell to the floor and I couldn't get up
    after drinkin' a quart of that Johnny Jump-Up.
    "His father was a drinker..."
    • "Jose Cuervo" by Shelly West
    ''Did I kiss all the cowboys? Did I shoot out the lights?
    ''Did I dance on the bar? Did I start any fights?

    K

    ''When I get lost in the liquor
    ''You're the only one I find

    L

    • "Last of the Big Time Drinkers" by Stereophonics
    I take pride in my work, I'm the last of the big time drinkers...

    Hey, Baby, let's get fucked up ...
    They're singing "whisky, whisky" so good they named it twice
    I drink much more than I want to drink...
    ''Little Hula girls on the shot glass.
    ''All we need's a little salt and lime.
    let go of my hand...
    A couple of dancing ladies and a ticket out of here
    it makes your words more flowery...

    M

    ''I remember shots without a chaser
    ''Left you in a bar to try to stay face
    ''One shot...Hey! Mas Tequila-
    ''Two shots...Hey! Hey! que veneno-
    Three shots...Hey! Arriba! Hey! Hey! Hey! Mas Tequila!
    ''But there's booze in the blender
    ''And soon it will render
    ''That frozen concoction that helps me hang on
    I'm drunk now, baby, but I've got to be...
    Found a case of Lowey (Lowenbrau). Gee what a score.
    Drank 'em all in seconds. Ya got any more?
    Just how wasted can I get today?
    • "Mexican Cousin" by Phish
    Oh tequila, I turn to you like a long lost friend...
    ''And I take my shots strait out of the jug
    ''and I like to get pure drunk in that Mississippi mud...'
    And if whiskey don't kill me, then I don't know what will...
    It's my bottle, my whiskey, if I want I'll drink it all

    N

    ''We got it all in here...
    ''Lately I've been drinking at the New House of the Pope.
    The 9:30 pint for whomever wanders in / It's not for me to wonder or ask where they might've been
    I'm on the nightrain
    Bottoms up
    I'm on the nightrain
    Fill my cup
    I'm on the nightrain
    Ready to crash and burn
    I never learn
    • "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer On The Wall" (traditional)
    ''Take one down, pass it around, ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall
    ''Every demon, every ghost from your past
    ''And every memory you've held back follows you home...

    O

    • "O'Reilly at the Bar" by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
    Whoever you are, you pushed me too far, now I'm gonna smash your face...
    Forty or Twenty-two, I'm with you ...
    Red from the night before the night before
    ''Hey mister bartender come here
    I want another drink and I want it now...
    and one more for the road...
    I'm feeling sober, even though I'm drinking

    P

    ''Tonight I'm lookin for a party crowd
    ''Slammin' 'em back and laughing out loud
    Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
    Making love to his tonic and gin
    chase senoritas drink ourselves silly
    Twenty years of rot-gut whiskey done killed this poor man dead.
    ''Cause a row of fools on a row of stools
    ''Pour me, pour me another shot of whiskey
    ''Bartender hit me one more time..."
    ''Take me out to paradise if only for tonight
    I can leave it all behind...

    Q

    • "Quart In Session" by NOFX
    It's funny how nothing seems much fun
    Anymore to me now that I quit the drink...

    R

    Let me sit down here, drinking alone's a shame...
    ''Red red wine I love you right from the start
    ''Right from the start with all of my heart
    As long as it is red, oh, set 'em up until we're dead...
    We're goin to the Roadhouse gonna have a real, a good time..
    Drinkin' rum and Coca Cola
    Go down "Point Koo-mah-nah"

    S

    Komm, wir singen übers Saufen, über Bier und Alkohol
    (Come on, let's sing about boozing, about beer and alcohol)
    Sing another drinking song, the honky tonk will do...
    ''Baby do I feel high, oh me, oh my,
    ''I'm gonna spend the night like every night before
    ''Now and then when she's tired of bein' let down by men...
    ''I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head...
    • "Sitten' at a Bar" by Rehab
    ''You know mo I'll probably get ten years so just give me beers til they get here...
    ''I was born with a bottle in my mouth...SIX PACK!
    ''Just to relax and let the six-pack summer roll
    ''Wild Turkey's been chosen,
    ''its caramel nose can smell me,
    ''Arbourler, Jameson I love you,
    ''the single malts come burning.
    • "Some Other Time" by X
    ''This midnight I will turn into a beer...
    ''One more tequila they were fallin' in love, one more is never enough...
    He's just a stereotype, he drinks his age in pints
    Been so long I forgot what it's like...
    Stoned and drunk, completely gone...
    • "Straight Tequila" by Trini Triggs
    ''Pouring straight tequila over mixed emotions tonight...
    ''Then she won't need the salt or the lime anymore,
    ''To shoot that old memory down.
    ''I am going, I am going, where streams of whiskey are flowing
    ''When the world is too dark and I need the light inside of me I'll go into a bar and drink fifteen pints of beer
    ''Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
    ''Then it floods away tomorrows
    Well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt...

    T

    Take me drunk, I'm home
    ''But I'll find a bar And I'll have a few
    ''Until I'm ten feet tall and bulletproof
    ''And after round seven or was it eight
    ''I bought a round for the whole damn place
    ''Con Tequila when the doors are opened
    ''And con Tequila when they're calling time
    ''She might come home in a tablecloth
    ''Tequila makes her clothes fall off
    ''Take another shot of courage...
    • The Trees Get Wheeled Away - Bright Eyes
    • "Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho
    • "The Barley Mow" - this is a drinking game song traditionally sung by a group of people with each verse getting longer and longer. The idea is to sing the entire verse without taking a breath. If you have to take a breath, you have to take a drink.
    • "The Bottle Let Me Down" Merle Haggard
    ''I've always had a bottle I could turn to
    ''And lately I've been turning everyday...
    ... and we'd drink, two gnarly dudes and some records...

    ''... and we'd drink, ever notice how drinking's like war?
    ''Cup 'o troops o'er the gums,
    ''Till the end of our health, I campaigned against myself,
    Armed with bourbons and scotches and rums...

    ''... but I was so hammered, I sputtered and stammered,
    ''Told him he couldn't just die.
    ''He was a rock, went straight for his own Armageddon,
    ''Face froze in a grin, ambulance flyin' in,
    ''I never drank again...
    ''Can't really call that a loss or a win.
    ''As the band played on, as the helicopters whirred,
    ''Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn,
    My senses finally blurred.
    She takes a drink, and then she waits; the alcohol, it permeates
    and soon the cells give way and cancels out the day...
    • "The Lord Knows I'm Drinkin'" by Tom T. Hall
    • "The Old Dun Cow" traditional, many artists
    Down to the cellar, if the fire's not there
    we'll have a grand old spree
    • "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)" by Tom Waits
    And he's embarrassing me...
    ''There was a time I could drink my cares away
    ''And drown out all of the heartaches that hurt me night and day
    ''I've got the worst hangover ever
    ''I'm crawling to the bathroom again
    ''It hurts so bad that I'm never gonna drink again
    ''There stands the glass that will sure ease my mind
    ''And will put you behind. It's my first one today.
    ''I'm gonna keep drinkin' until I'm petrified.
    Thirsty and miserable. You drop to the floor.
    You drink 'till you can't even see anymore ...
    And it's a common misconception
    But true without exception
    These nights of booze catch up with you's
    And that is an actual fact...
    ''Bartender, pour the wine 'cause the hurtin's all mine
    ''He drinks a whisky drink; he drinks a vodka drink...
    kunhan vain saamme juodaksemme
    ''(translation, not direct) as long as we get to drink our beer
    We've got nothing better to do
    ''than watch TV and have a couple of brews ...'
    ''So bring me two pina coladas, one for each hand
    ''Let's set sail with Captin Morgan and never leave dry land

    U

    ''Give me a bottle of your very best,
    ''Cause I've got a problem I'm gonna drink off my chest.
    • "Under the Big Black Sun" by X
    ''Smoke in one hand looking for a drink, drink in the other hand..."
    ''Worked all day gonna go out get a pint tonight ..."

    V

    W

    • "Wasn't That A Party" by Scooter Lee
    ''Could've been the whiskey, might've been the gin
    ''Could've been the 3-4 six packs, I don't know
    ''But look at the mess I'm in
    ''Did I drink too much? Could I disappear?
    ''And there's nothing that's left but wasted years
    ''Help yourself to some but obey the law
    ''If you drink don't drive do the watermelon crawl...
    ''But tonight I am drinking, all peaceful and warm...
    • "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me) by Jerry Lee Lewis
    ''She says love and happiness just can't live behind those swinging doors
    ''Do you have a little coke and ice
    ''So I can knock them both back
    Don't do anything mellow after whiskey...
    '' Now if you catch me sober please make me drunk again...
    • "Whiskey And Wine" by 311
    ''Whiskey and wine, killing me a shot at a time...
    ''Well show me, the way to the next Whiskey bar...
    ''cause you know I still love to get drunk and hear country sounds
    ''She's got bottles in the kitchen. Even got them in my bed.
    ''Most times I see her now she's three parts out of her head...
    ''She ain't in to wine and roses
    ''Beer just makes her turn up her nose...
    ''I'd drive you from his tangled mind for good...
    ''She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger...
    He always joins me when I drink and we get on just fine...
    ''Feeling the amber current flowing from my mind
    "Women, whiskey and miles of travellin' is all I understand."
    ''Whiskey, you're a friend of mine. You can blow away my mind...
    ''All those nights of drinking finally got me thinking
    • "Whisky You're the Devil" (Traditional)
    ''Oh, whisky you're the devil, you're leading me astray, over hills and mountains and to Americae...
    ''I took one sip and right away I knew as my eyes bugged out and my face turned blue
    ''lightning started flashin'... thunder started crashing... oooooooo "WHITE LIGHTNING"
    ''And make a toast to peace and harmony?
    • "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw?" by Jimmy Buffett
    • "Wide-eyed And Legless" by Andy Fairweather-Lowe
    I've gone and done it again...
    ''And once upon a time you turned the water into wine
    ''Now on my knees I'm turning to you father
    ''Could you help me turn the wine back into water
    Wine me up turn me on and watch me cry for you...

    X

    Y

    ''First, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
    ''Then beer from a bottle
    • "Yes, I Guess They Outa Name A Drink After You" by John Prine
    ''Sometimes I feel like an awful fool
    ''Spendin' my life on an old bar stool
    ''I sobered up, and I got to thinkin'
    ''Girl you ain't much fun since I quit drinkin'
    ''I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison
    • "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" by Pet Shop Boys

    See also

    List of lists of songs

    Lists of songs about a topic | Drinking songs | Alcohol-related lists

     

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