# Song Lyric (1 bourbon 1 scotch 1 beer) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 7, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351 "2001-08-07T20:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GLM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@GLM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLM)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/1 "2001-08-07T20:56:58Z")
Does anyone have the lyrics for this song. I’ve searched several places on the web and I can’t find it. There are two places in the song were the singer is talking to his landlady and she responds that don’t (bafront?) me. What the hell is she saying? The version I’m talking about is by George Theroughgood and the Destroyers. (Sorry about the spelling) ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/2 "2001-08-07T20:59:25Z")
According to [this site](http://personal.inet.fi/surf/tjal/thoro/lyrics.htm#one) (found with a Google search for “Thorogood lyrics”), the word is “confront.” ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/3 "2001-08-07T20:59:33Z")
[http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/artistswithsongs/george\_thorogood\_2.htm#one\_bourbon\_one\_scotch\_one\_beer](http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/artistswithsongs/george_thorogood_2.htm#one_bourbon_one_scotch_one_beer) She sez, “Don’t confront me.” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/4 "2001-08-07T20:59:55Z")
I might have been able to tell you, but when I read your OP, I saw your made-up word and now can’t get it out of my head when I play it through… Everybody funny - now you funny, too. Great song - even with George’s pathetically off-key singing. Hooker’s is great and the original, too. WordMan ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/5 "2001-08-07T21:01:08Z")
that don’t concoin (concern) me? It ain’t at Lyric World. ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/6 "2001-08-08T05:15:52Z")
Thorogood lyrics? The song was written and performed by the late, great John Lee Hooker. George Thorogood covered it on his first album. Philistines. And it’s “confront,” as in “That don’t confront me, as long as I get my money next Friday.” Though I wouldn’t be surprised if both the Crawling King snake and his talented white-boy imitator occasionally used “consoin” (concern) in performance. ---
**Author:** ![GLM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@GLM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLM)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/7 "2001-08-08T12:03:29Z")
Looks like the word is confront. Funny usage for that word though. Must be a southern blues thing. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-1-bourbon-1-scotch-1-beer/75351/8 "2001-08-08T16:02:15Z")
It’s also borrowed by South Park’s Chef, in “Chocolate Salty Balls”. 😃