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Friday afternoon drinking....
Posted by Dave Holley on 26 September 2008 - 3:40pm.
Its Friday afternoon. I'm just about fully recovered from the hangover obtained at last night's bacchanalian orgy and am beginning to think about a glass of something in a hour or two.
I'm licking my lips at the thought of a pint of Ramrod & special at the local.
I need a soundtrack to play on my way to the pub, to get me even more in the mood.
What suggestions do you have? (NB I already have "I am a cider drinker" by The Wurzels ready to go!)
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How about the Ronettes?
'Beer my, beer my baby..'
No?
Fair enough.
too much wine
by the handsome family (it's about the worst xmas ever so maybe not)
welcome to us 80's 90's by the Fall (which has the top refrain "beer, whiskey cigarettes")
Nole Coward singing "london Pride" (one for the teenagers there)
or
The piano has been drinkin-Tom Waits
I Drink-Mary Gauthier
Down Drinking In The Bar-Loudon Wainwright
Down Where The Drunkards Roll-Richard and Linda Thompson
Finish off with- In The Wee Small Hours -Frank Sinatra
"We'll have another round"
You'll need some Pogues, of course. One of my favourites is "The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn", which seems to be describing history's wildest drinking binge:
Do you know what the Pogues song was called
that had the refrain something along the lines of
"I'll have a pint, I'll have a pint, I'll have a pint with you sir
My old man said to ?? I'll meet you down the boozer" ?
It was fast and furious.
Waxie's Dargle!
waxies dargle is the song you seek, sir
there's any amount of pogues drinking songs. Sally McLinnane is my own personal favourite, and Pair of Brown Eyes for the end of the night, when the barman is asking 'have you no homes to go to?' as is his wont around these parts.
Just say no
Here's a cover version of the Kink's "Alcohol", adapted to be an animated public information broadcast. Happy ending and all.
Jerry Lee Lewis is always good for drinking songs..
- What's Made Milwaukee Famous
- There Stands the Glass
..especially if you are feeling a bit sorry for yourself....
Or my personal favourite...
... It Was The Whiskey Talking (Not Me).
CLASSIC!
Not one he sings these days, I'll wager
"I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean, my love to find
But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
And neither have I the wings to fly
If I could find me a handsome boatman
To ferry me over my love and I
My childhood days bring back sweet reflections
The happy times I spent so long ago
My boyhood friends and kind relations
Have all past on now like melting snow
I'll spend my da - ys an endless rover
Soft is the grass and sure, my bed is free
Oh but to be back, in carrickfergus
To strike that lonely road, down by the sea
And in kilkenny it is reported
On marble stone there as black as ink
With gold and silver I would support her
But I'll sing no more now til I get a drink
For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober
A handsome rover from town to town
Ah but I'm sick now my days are numbered
Come all ye young men and lay me down."
There was a fabulous promotional video of Van Morrison and the Chiefrtains performing this, when it first came out. Van was playing drums, looking like the odd one in the band, that being quite something to behold, photogenicity being, arguably, not Paddy and the boys strongest suit!
you callin' me unphotogenic....
Are ya, PUNK?
I wouldn't dare!
Derek Bell, RIP, was a tiger in a brawl. Or, I suspect, not. I cannot recommend his LP "Carolans Receipt" highly enough, simple solo irish harp, played beauteously. It's on e-music, pop-pickers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bell_(musician)
i preferred the album
Derek Bell Plays With Himself, if only for the title.
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/2362909/Plays-With-Himself/Product.html
Derek Bell's Musical Ireland
is also recommended. I picked it up in the music shop at Roundstone a couple of weeks ago, along with an album of Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan.
Well these two should sufice
For going out......
And for getting home feeling sorry for yourself
Whiskey In My Whiskey
'nuff said
*hic*
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager shouting
Lager lager lager lager shouting
Lager lager lager shouting
Mega mega white thing mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing mega mega shouting
Lager lager lager lager mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Getting merry by now...
"Tequila" by Terrorvision:
Ask Uncle Bob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Time_Radio_Hour:_Drinking
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on
"The Face on the Bar Room Floor" by The Flaming Stars:
http://www.divshare.com/download/5457743-427
"3 a.m. on the Bar Room Floor" by The Flaming Stars:
http://www.divshare.com/download/5457759-faf