I forgot to add the:
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No MP3s here, but may I suggest:

Beercan by Beck.
Guilty by Bonnie Raitt.
Still Can’t Feel the Gin by Ray LaMontagne.

"I Got Drunk," Uncle Tupelo
"W-I-F-E," The Old 97's
"Drank Like A River," Whiskeytown
"Moonshiner," Uncle Tupelo
"Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down," Merle Haggard

Here is an RB Morris song about a bootlegger
and here are the lyrics for Beer Run by Todd Snider, who has a ton of songs about drinkin'.

"The Piano Has Been Drinking," Tom Waits
"One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer," John Lee Hooker (or the George Thoroughgood version if you must)
"Ballad of Thunder Road," Robert Mitchum

I'm Gonna Hire a Wino by David Frizzell

"Passenger Side" Wilco

"Here Comes a Regular" - The Replacements
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" - Tom Waits
"Have a Drink on Me" - AC/DC
"Victim of Changes" - Judas Priest

"Suicide Solution" - Ozzy
"Sunday Morning Comin' Down" - Johnny Cash
"Beer for Breakfast" - The Replacements

Merle Haggard's "We don't smoke marijuana in Muscokee" or something like that. I saw him live (yeah, WOOOOT!) when I was around 12 years old and that's the only song I remember. It was about moonshine being the biggest thrill of all or something.

And I swallowed a whole ice cube accidentally at the show. It later melted but I was scared for a little bit.

Virtually anything by Love/Hate? One More Round, Wasted in America, Happy Hour, Beer Money...

Fenriq, you're thinking of Okie from Muskogee.

And dammit, tr33hggr, you stole my idea! (Which I might continue with anyway....)

Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys.

Tear in My Beer - Hank Williams
Whiskey if You Were a Woman - Highway 101

Aw, hell, just go here:

CMT's 40 greatest drinkin' songs.

What, no mention of
Home for a Rest by Spirit of the West?

Not only the greatest drinking song ever, the greatest song about drinking. Will cause otherwise straightlaced men and women to commence with the jigging.

"Drink Up & Be Somebody" Merle Haggard
"I ain't Drunk (I'm Just Drinkin')" Albert Collins
"We Must've Been Drunk" George Jones & Merle Haggard
"Drunk" Jimmy Liggins
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" Amos Milburn/George Thorogood
"Drunken Guitar" Lushes
"I Drink Alone" George Thorogood
"Drinkin Wine Spodeeodee" Stick McGhee
"Drunken Lazy Bastard" Mahones
"What's The Use Of Getting Sober When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again" Louis Jordan
"Wine" The Electric Flag
"My Wife" The Who

Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
You Make the Choice (Weed vs. Beer) - Dilated Peoples
Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues
Tap the Bottle - Young Black Teenagers
Gin and Juice - Snoop Doggy Dogg, but go for The Gourds' cover version
40 oz. for Breakfast - Blackalicious
Guinnessez - MF DOOM

Most of my suggestions can be found easily *cough* through completely legal means *cough* but one track is impossibly obscure, and hilarious and rockin' to boot so I'll post it for ya:

Lushes - Drunken Guitar

Canceling the Game-Jenny Mae

Thanks so much. I love you guys. /Cartman voice

Drink by the Jazz Butcher.

I totally forgot the immortal Jimmy Buffett's "Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw".

You're Still On My Mind - as performed by Gram Parsons (not sure if he wrote it)

"Alcohol" by The Kinks
"Whiskey River" by Willie Nelson

There's a whole bunch of jump blues tunes about drinking. I'll see if I can't post a couple when I get home.

The Jimmy Liggins track and the Louis Jordan song are probably tough to find to so grab 'em, dude.

As promised, some boozy jump blues:

Al Jackson – Let’s Drink Some Whiskey

Marcellus Thomas – Haller’s 89 Whiskey Boogie

Mr. Swing w/Bobby Plater’s Orchestra – Beer Bottle Boogie

The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn by the Pogues, and, That Woman’s Got Me Drinking by Shane Macgowan and the Popes.

A Good Night For My Drinkin’ by the Supersuckers.

Whiskey in Your Shoes - Frank Black & the Catholics.

One For My Baby (And One More For the Road / Sinatra.

Lilac Wine by the late Jeff Buckley

"Lilac wine is sweet and heady,
Like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady,
Like my love"

Beautiful. I awoke crabby, but you all have made it better. If anyone wants a copy of the disc when I'm done, send me an e-mail with your address.

And, I should mention I live in the birthplace of both Beer Nuts and Steak and Shake, so if anyone is up for a road trip someday . . . I'll owe you a beer, and a bag of nuts!

#1 pure alcohol - 60 Ft. Dolls
It Won't Hurt - Dwight Yoakam

See what happens when you don't use the internet at home? I am literally always a day late and a dollar short.


Seems like you're covered here, perhaps I will add the only good (imho) post magowan pogues song "Drunken Boat." Inspired by Rimbaud. Lyrics thus:




The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar
With me head inise a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor

Mother pack me bags because I'm off to foreign parts
Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause I'm sure it's off the charts
I'll pin your likeness on the wall right buy my sleeping head
I'll send you cards and letters so you'll know that I'm not dead

By this time in a week I should be far away from home
Trailing fingers through the phospor or asleep in flowers of foam
From Macao to Acapulco from Havana to Seville
We'll see monoliths and bridges and the Christ up on the hill

An aria with the Russians at the piano in the bar
With icefloes through the window we raised glasses to the Czar
We squared off on a dockside with a coupled hundred Finns
And we dallied in the 'dilly and we stoaked ourselves in gin

Now the only deck I'd want to walk
Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet
And the only sea I want to sail
Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid crouced full of sadness
Lets his boat go drifting out
Into the evening sun

At nights we'd pass the bottle round andd drink to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end.
With walls of moving shadows, and rows of swinging keys
We dreamed that whole leviathans lay rotting in the reeds.

We sailed through constellations and were rutted by the storm
I crumpled under cudgel blows and finally came ashore
I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall
We went to sea to see the world and what d'you think we saw?

If we turned the table upside down and sailed around the bed
Clamped knives between our teeth and tied bandannas round our heads
With the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky
You'd not expect that anyone would go and fucking die

At nights we passed the bottle round and drank to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end
A wall of moving shadows with rows of swinging keys
We dreamed that whole Leviathans lay rotting in the weeds

There's a sound that comes from miles away if you lean your head to hear
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck where the air is still and clear
And up in heaven that means another angel's got his wings
But all below it signifies is a ship's gone in the drink

This is a CD I look forward to hearing.

mudpuppie, e-mail me if you'd like me to burn you one. Just send me your address, no stalking, I gar-ahhn-teee.