# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/41 "2008-09-05T15:17:31Z")
Sing _Melancholy Baby_! Ah, yes, Amos Milburn. _Chicken Shack Boogie_. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/42 "2008-09-05T15:30:46Z")
_Wild Rover_, _Parting Glass_, _Wild Colonial Boy_… Pretty much anything from the Makem/Clancy songbook has been sung by me and my chums both stone cold sober and “quite pissed”, as they say. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/43 "2008-09-05T15:36:33Z")
[Blow Me](http://www.redpeters.com/undies/lyrics/blowme.html) Link is to lyrics only. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/44 "2008-09-05T16:04:16Z")
“One More for the Road” by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/45 "2008-09-05T16:10:53Z")
Lots of good suggestions. No one yet has mentioned one of my faves - **Eddie Spaghetti** and the **Supersuckers**. So many great sing-alongs about being drunk and/or stoned, and the aftermath. Gotta Get Drunk Misery and Gin Hungover Together Must’ve Been High Killer Weed Non-Addictive Marijuana And that is just off of 2 of their albums. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/46 "2008-09-05T16:15:42Z")
My iPod just churned up the Dubliners’ “Seven Drunken Nights” ("… we’re only allowed to sing five of them"), in which the narrator is so smashed his wife can pass off evidence of her lover as random household objects, like cabbages. “You’re drunk, you’re drunk, you silly old fool …” ---
**Author:** ![accidentalyuppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@accidentalyuppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/accidentalyuppie)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/47 "2008-09-05T16:23:18Z")
Mike Cross’s The Scotsman [http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/thescots.htm](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/thescots.htm) Emma Turl and Whiskey 'fore Breakfast and a bunch of his other stuff ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/48 "2008-09-05T16:23:38Z")
Ok, one of my faves: _Let it Bleed_ by the Rolling Stones And a terrible tune, but it’s pretty drunken and weird: _Barroom Buddies_ by Merle Haggard and **Clint Eastwood** ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/49 "2008-09-05T16:30:45Z")
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/50 "2008-09-05T18:37:40Z")
I’m partial to “Had Me A Real Good Time” by the Faces: “My reception wasn’t very keen So turning on a friendly grin Stood on the table with my glass of gin And came straight to the point: I was glaaaaaaad to come And I’ll be saaaaaaad to leave So while I’m here I’ll have me a real good time!” ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/51 "2008-09-05T19:03:24Z")
From opposite ends of the spectrum… _Fat Girls and Weed_ - Cross Canadian Ragweed _More Beer_ - Fear ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/52 "2008-09-05T19:08:04Z")
[QUOTE=Tangent;10154245_Merry Christmas From The Family_ by Robert Earl Keen[/QUOTE] Shoot, anything by Robert Earl Keen Jr. will work. Me? I was thinking of _The Road Goes on Forever (and the Party Never Ends)_ ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/53 "2008-09-05T19:42:49Z")
_Wasn’t that a Party_ - **The Irish Rovers** \*Could have been the whiskey, might have been the gin. Could have been three or four six-packs, I don’t know, but look at the mess I’m in, My head is like a football, I think I’m gonna die, Tell me, me oh me oh my, Wasn’t that a party? Someone took a grapefruit and wore it like a hat, I saw someone under my kitchen table, talking to my old tom cat, They were talking about hockey and the cat was talkin’ back, Along about then everything went black, But wasn’t that a party?\* This was our official drinking song in high school… ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/54 "2008-09-05T19:45:22Z")
> [@SylverOne](#): > > _Wasn’t that a Party_ - **The Irish Rovers** > > \*Could have been the whiskey, might have been the gin. > Could have been three or four six-packs, > I don’t know, but look at the mess I’m in, > My head is like a football, I think I’m gonna die, > Tell me, me oh me oh my, > Wasn’t that a party? > > Someone took a grapefruit and wore it like a hat, > I saw someone under my kitchen table, talking to my old tom cat, > They were talking about hockey and the cat was talkin’ back, > Along about then everything went black, > But wasn’t that a party?\* Covered by the Irish Rovers. Written by Tom Paxton, who also wrote “Bottle of Wine,” covered by the Fireballs. ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/55 "2008-09-05T19:47:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Covered by the Irish Rovers. Written by Tom Paxton, who also wrote “Bottle of Wine,” covered by the Fireballs. Good to know… The Rover’s version is all I’ve ever heard. Thanks!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/56 "2008-09-05T19:50:13Z")
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMlF993ANRA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMlF993ANRA) Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5Y-PHiOdI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5Y-PHiOdI) Yee-haw! ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/57 "2008-09-05T21:23:29Z")
[King of Beer](http://www.mp3lyrics.org/t/too-much-joy/king-of-beers/) by Too Much Joy Man I haven’t thought about those guys in a while. Cereal Killers is a great album and very very underated. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/58 "2008-09-05T21:36:05Z")
\*Hangover \*- Max Webster ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/59 "2008-09-05T21:46:53Z")
[I Ain’t Drunk - Albert Collins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVfc8-Y7sQ) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/60 "2008-09-05T22:02:52Z")
[Fuck You I’m Drunk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRXAEJM1wI)is always fun to sing along with. I’m really more of an [Alcohol and Pills](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjfG-nVrW0) kinda guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083.md?page=4)