# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/61 "2008-09-05T22:53:48Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > [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. “Crush Story” was all over college radio here when it came out. A damn fine album. Also wanted to second the entire Pogues catalogue. ---
**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, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/62 "2008-09-05T22:55:34Z")
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOhIIIIIIIIIIIIII’m stay’n alive OOOOOOOOOOOOOOhIIIIIIIIIIIIII’m stay’n alive At least that’s what I remember the drunks wailing when I was an undergrad. ---
**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 6, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/63 "2008-09-06T01:45:36Z")
> [@SylverOne](#): > > Good to know… The Rover’s version is all I’ve ever heard. Thanks!🙂 I never knew the name of that one, who wrote it, _or_ who covered it! ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/64 "2008-09-06T01:55:47Z")
“Good Night Irene”, with additional lurid pornographic verses. ---
**Author:** ![Neon\_Madman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e79b87/32.png) [@Neon\_Madman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neon_Madman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/65 "2008-09-06T02:53:20Z")
[Sweet Virginia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH07XuH6TI0) by The Rolling Stones has always been my group of friends official “Night of Drunken Debauchery Feel-Good Song” I’m very surprised no one has mentioned it yet, although it may be more of a stoner song, but _Rainy Day Women 12 & 35_ by Bob Dylan seems perfect, given that the chorus is a bunch of drunken session musicians singing “EVERYONE MUST GET STONED!” complete with a sleazy New Orleans style horn section for the chorus. Legend has it that to get those straight laced Nashville session musicians to sound authentically trashed, Bob took them all out for a night on the town consisting of ingesting copious amounts of weed and beer before recording. On a darker note, Tom Waits entire catologue may suffice if your one of _those_ kinds of drinkers. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/66 "2008-09-06T04:50:56Z")
Hey **An Gadaí,** I just now found out that Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners died recently. Damned. Every one of his songs was a drinking song! You might remember (or maybe not) that I spent a couple of years in Northern Ireland as a kid. My dad had a few of the Dubliners albums and I bought some on CD a few decades ago. My God, Ronnie’s voice was incredible. Like an Irish Johnny Cash, really. RIP Ronnie. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/67 "2008-09-06T14:14:01Z")
When The Little Man with the Hammer Starts to hit you with all his might You can bet your boots and your Sunday suits You got a little tight When The Little Man with the Hammer Comes to reorganize your head Then there ain’t no pills gonna cure your ills You might as well be dead When it’s after one and you’re havin’ fun You never give a hang But I bet you say at the break of day “Here come the British with a Bang! Bang!” It’s The Little Man with the Hammer Always tryin’ to pick a fight So it’s lift your cup with the bottom up We’ll wear him out tonight -Pee Wee Hunt with the Casa Loma Band, 1935 ---
**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 6, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/68 "2008-09-06T17:50:27Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Hey **An Gadaí,** > > I just now found out that Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners died recently. Damned. Every one of his songs was a drinking song! > > You might remember (or maybe not) that I spent a couple of years in Northern Ireland as a kid. My dad had a few of the Dubliners albums and I bought some on CD a few decades ago. My God, Ronnie’s voice was incredible. Like an Irish Johnny Cash, really. > > RIP Ronnie. Yeah I started a thread about it. I was torn up about it, which is unusual for me, I’m not a cry-when-celebrity-dies type. I saw him in concert last December. I think it might have been his last proper gig. He only did a few songs but it was amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/69 "2008-09-06T17:57:58Z")
My favorite thing to listen to when I’m drunk and in a playful mood is **Minor Threat**. The unpredictability of it always surprised me for the first time when I’m three sheets to the wind and I get a kick out of listening to straightedge wasted. But for more conventional stuff, the music that’s most _improved_ by being drunk is definitely country, although I certainly would be more likely to let people know if it didn’t come up to my (looser) standards. Never got a chance to hear Celtic or Celtic-influenced music when drunk, but that would probably be the best overall (not ironic or most improved.) Unfortunately, the Irish pub I go to every year as part of an online group get-together always chooses Sunday to be “ballad night”, not “in your face rockin’ out Irish dance music” night :mad: ---
**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 6, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/70 "2008-09-06T21:10:22Z")
Another good one just coughed up by the iPod: Drive-By Truckers’ “Women Without Whiskey”: _The bottle ain’t to blame and I ain’t trying to It can’t make you do a thing, it just lets you…_ More of a drinking regrets thing, but regrets are part of it, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Goblin\_Queen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Goblin\_Queen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goblin_Queen)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/71 "2008-09-07T01:49:30Z")
I think the country-sounding song “Alcohol” mentioned on the first page would be by the Barenaked Ladies. If not, that song is still good. Also, there’s “My Alcoholic Friends” by the Dresden Dolls and there’s always “The Alabama Song” (lots of versions of this one) _Oh show me the way to the next whiskey bar…_ ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/72 "2008-09-07T16:53:49Z")
An unofficial anthem for my ex colleagues and myself was American Pie which when drunk as rats we belted out THIS’LL BE THE DAY THAT I DIE OH THIS’LL BE THE DAY THAT I DIE was almost a self fulfilling prophecy as it made anyone who could hear us want to kill us just to shut us up. Oh and I vote for Wild Rover and Chumbawumba as well. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/73 "2008-09-07T17:26:34Z")
Here’s one of my favorites. I’ve seen the band do this song live a dozen plus times and it’s the kind of fast swamp blues that makes you want to get up and dance around. In a more just world this would be an anthem, because live, the sight of drunk (and sober) folks crazily bouncing like overjoyed loons to this song is an amazing and quite wonderful sight. Anyone who listens to this song and doesn’t at the very least tap their toes is most likely dead. [My Old Man Boogie](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=8524459) by Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band (MySpace link - the song is on the player, just scroll down) My old man he’s drunk again When he gets drunk he’s everybody’s friend Everybody’s friend everybody’s friend My old man he’s drunk again Hey there Rev now you alright but we’d rather hang with your old man tonight … ---
**Author:** ![SweetLime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@SweetLime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLime)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/74 "2008-09-07T18:21:26Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Spirit of the West - [Home for a Rest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEKzxu7MVU) > > Canadian University Party Anthem! Seconded. Also [Barrett’s Privateers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-CfQvz21Y) ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/75 "2008-09-07T19:13:05Z")
> [@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?\* > > This was our official drinking song in high school… Shitty intro, shitty video, but this is all I can find on youtube; [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TTIzYJNKo8s/hqdefault.jpg "Wasn't That A Party") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTIzYJNKo8s) And also this kickass tune, a favourite in my neck of the woods; [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L6QTwZDzak4/hqdefault.jpg "The Irish Rovers - Finnegans Wake") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6QTwZDzak4) LOTS of fun at Finnegans wake. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/76 "2008-09-07T21:51:24Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Yeah I started a thread about it. I was torn up about it, which is unusual for me, I’m not a cry-when-celebrity-dies type. I saw him in concert last December. I think it might have been his last proper gig. He only did a few songs but it was amazing. I never saw your thread… Linky? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/77 "2008-09-07T22:38:48Z")
Hank Williams Jr.'s “Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof” The Dropkick Murphys’ “Kiss Me, I’m Shitfaced”. Also their “Skinhead on the MBTA”, “The Boys on the Docks”, “The Spicy McHaggis Jig”, and their salute to St. Paddy’s Day, “Assholes on Parade”. ---
**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 7, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/78 "2008-09-07T23:00:27Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I never saw your thread… Linky? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479682](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479682) ---
**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 8, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/79 "2008-09-08T15:02:36Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Hank Williams Jr.'s “Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof” Isn’t that by Travis Tritt? Or did Hank Jr. do a version? Here’s Travis: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZahUZn4yJ4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZahUZn4yJ4) (Beware the powerful mullet!) I’ll add Gretchen Wilson’s “All Jacked Up” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IcT9H15JZw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IcT9H15JZw) Couldn’t find a proper video for it, but man she sounds really good live. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083/80 "2008-09-08T16:06:13Z")
Great stuff so far, and I do love me the entire Clancy/Makem/Dubliners catalog, but I have to put this one up there: Hank Williams III - [My Drinking Problem Left Today](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUJqj9aAFA). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-drunk-songs/462083.md?page=3)