# Best drunk songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083 "2008-09-04T23:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/21 "2008-09-05T04:07:50Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > FREE BIRD!!! > > Actually that’s just fun to yell when you’re drunk. Don’t forget American Pie if you’re gonna include Freebird. Those two songs at the end of a drunken night always guaranteed me and my friends gathered in a circle, arms around each other’s necks, wailing horribly off-tune and winding down the party. Honorable mentions to: “I love this bar” - Toby Keith “Alcohol” - I don’t know the singer, but it’s country’ish “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” - George Thorogood “Du Hast” - Rammstein [This one only works if everyone’s drunk, angry, and ready to cause property destruction] ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/22 "2008-09-05T04:16:55Z")
> [@Doug\_Bowe](#): > > Cisco Kid. > > At the chorus everyone is supposed to join in drunken shouting… > > “Ride…Ride…Ride” _Ceeesco, pasa la botella, hombre_ ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/23 "2008-09-05T04:21:00Z")
If you’re in the mood for a bit of _a capella_, I’ve found that “The Ball at Kerrymuir” will soon make your neighbors wish they weren’t. [Link](http://www.drinkingsongs.net/mp3s/1970s/1971ca-stag-party-in-london-vol-2-(LP)/02-the-ball-of-kerrymuir.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/24 "2008-09-05T04:58:03Z")
> [@Mr\_Buttons](#): > > … > “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” - George Thorogood… That’s my vote. Also – _Oklahoma!_ Not the whole song, just the first few words that fade into drunken babble “OOOOOOklahoma, where the wind goes er er er er whew!” Repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/25 "2008-09-05T05:12:57Z")
_Let’s Get Drunk And Be Somebody,_ by (the late) **Hank Thompson**. Or, if you really want to cry in your beer - _Goin’ Down Slow_, by **Ray Charles**. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/26 "2008-09-05T05:50:52Z")
Thorogood didn’t deserve to down the dregs of the shot glasses left by [Amos Milburn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Milburn), who co-wrote “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer” and also wrote “Bad, Bad Whiskey”. Anyway, the best drinking song is the American National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which originally was an English drinking song (albeit with different lyrics). And when you consider how many millions of Americans are drinking beers while waiting, in stadiums, homes and bars, for a game to start, there’s no question that it is also the most drunk-to song out there, in the USA, anyway. “O’ER THE LAND… OF THE FREE AND THE HOME… OF THE BRAVE!! [Woo-hoo!]” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/27 "2008-09-05T05:55:36Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Thorogood didn’t deserve to down the dregs of the shot glasses left by [Amos Milburn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Milburn), who co-wrote “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer” and also wrote “Bad, Bad Whiskey”. > > Anyway, the best drinking song is the American National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which originally was an English drinking song (albeit with different lyrics). And when you consider how many millions of Americans are drinking beers while waiting, in stadiums, homes and bars, for a game to start, there’s no question that it is also the most drunk-to song out there, in the USA, anyway. > > “O’ER THE LAND.. OF THE FREE > AND THE HOME.. OF THE BRAVE!! [Woo-hoo!]” Oh, that reminds me… that Gary Glitter stadium song, with no words but HEY– Da da da da da HEY Da da da da ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/28 "2008-09-05T06:02:50Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Oh, that reminds me… that Gary Glitter stadium song, with no words but HEY– > > Da da da da da > HEY > Da da da da But you know he was singing cute young boys! under his breath after every Hey. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/29 "2008-09-05T06:15:00Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > But you know he was singing cute young boys! under his breath after every Hey. If he had drunk more he probably wouln’t have caught any. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/30 "2008-09-05T09:21:26Z")
Pretty much the entire **Pogues** back catalogue. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/31 "2008-09-05T09:53:51Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Pretty much the entire **Pogues** back catalogue. Old Main Drag and Waltzing Mathilda have put many a gallon thru my kidneys ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/32 "2008-09-05T11:13:48Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > But you know he was singing cute young boys! under his breath after every Hey. I thought it was little girls he molested? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/33 "2008-09-05T11:30:17Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > [Show me the Way to go Home](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me_the_Way_to_Go_Home) > > Made famous in the movie _Jaws_. I assure you it was famous before then! I like the revised version, to be sung to the same tune immediately after the first verse, preferably while steaming drunk. Causes great hilarity: Indicate the way to my abode, I am fatigued and I wish to retire. I had a little tipple sixty minutes ago And it’s infiltrated into my cranium. No matter where I perambulate, Over earth or ocean or undulating water, You can always hear me incanting this melody, Indicate the way to my habitual abode. And another one is the trad Irish song _Carrickfergus_, with the great singalong lines: “…I’ll sing no more now, 'till I get a drink. For I’m drunk NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW And I’m seldom sober…” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/34 "2008-09-05T11:35:29Z")
Aww, come on, no **Hey Jude**? A good crowd can keep the party an extra 30 minutes, and happy, too. Violent Femmes. “Add it up” Another great sing-along, but much more likely to end up with fights in the parking lot. Psychostick. “The Beer Song.” When it’s warm it tastes real crappy But cold beer will make me happy When I throw up on the floor I can go and drink some more They say beer will make me dumb It are go good with pizza Now that we have drunk some beer Let’s go drive a car ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/35 "2008-09-05T11:35:46Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I thought it was little girls he molested? I think it was boys, but I’m too disgusted to do a search. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/36 "2008-09-05T11:45:21Z")
Gary Glitter sucks. Here’s the good version of that sports anthem. By the [KLF](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YA0Uq2wXM). ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/37 "2008-09-05T14:40:24Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > Gary Glitter sucks. > > Here’s the good version of that sports anthem. > By the [KLF](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YA0Uq2wXM). I bet most people don’t know that that song has words. The version with no words (other than Hey) is called “Rock & Roll Part 2,” while the version with words is called “Rock & Roll Part 1.” They were released together as the A and B side of a record. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/38 "2008-09-05T14:53:58Z")
Slightly off the OP’s topic, I nominate the best post-binge song, **Squeeze** ’s [“When the Hangover Strikes”](http://www.lyrics007.com/Squeeze%20Lyrics/When%20the%20Hangover%20Strikes%20Lyrics.html). It’s hilarious. There’s something about the contrast between the debased subject matter and the high, glossy style (and languid glamour) of the music and torchy vocal delivery that tickles my funny bone every time I hear it… and the “Oh… oh, ooooh me…” bits just push the mordant wit over the top. The rue, the shameless self-pity, the ravaged brain and body… oh, it’s great! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/39 "2008-09-05T14:56:18Z")
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Richard Farina’s “Hard Loving Loser” ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/40 "2008-09-05T15:14:23Z")
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