Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
As someone who is half-Irish, it’s something of a national holiday for me. Unfortunately, I’m full-“working adult”, so the closest I’ll come to the sauce today is by listening to my favorite drinking songs.
I have some Irish favorites, of course, particularly “Drunken Sailor.” Kind of a sentimental favorite, with my late father having been a Navy veteran. I’m also partial to “Seven Drunken Nights.”
But I have a few country drinking favorites, too:
- Cal Smith, “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking”
- Merle Haggard, “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink”
- Willie Nelson, “Yesterday’s Wine” and “I Gotta Get Drunk”
- Emmylou Harris, “Two More Bottles of Wine”
- Alan Jackson, “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
- Lori McKenna, “Monday Afternoon”
- Keith Urban, “Nobody Drinks Alone”
- Todd Snider, “Beer Run”
- Dixie Chicks, “Tonight the Heartache’s On Me”
- John Michael Montgomery, “Beer and Bones”
- Brad Paisley, “Alcohol”
- Toby Keith, “Get My Drink On”
- Maria McKee, “Drinkin’ in My Sunday Dress”
- Roger Miller, “Chug-a-Lug”
So, those are some of mine. Add yours in the comments!
Domestic, Light and Cold – Dierks Bentley
Killin’ Time – Clint Black
Pop A Top – Jim Ed Brown/Alan Jackson
White Lightning – George Jones
“There Stands The Glass” by Webb Pierce would be number one with me followed by
2 “Seven Drunken Nights” – The Dubliners
3 “A Pub With No Bear” – Slim Dusty
4 “A Six Pack To Go” – Hank Thompson
5 “Smoky The Bar” – Hank Thompson
6 “Set Up Two Glasses Joe” – Ernest Tubb
7 “Set ‘Em Up Joe (and Play Walking the Floor) – Vern Gosdin
8 “I See Them Everywhere” – Hank Thompson
9 “Wine Me Up” – Faron Young
10 “The Wild Rover” – The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
11 “Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down” – Merle Haggard
12 “One For My Baby (and One More For The Road” Frank Sinatra or Johnny Mercer
13 “Little Ole Winedrinker Me” – Charlie Walker or Dean Martin
14 “Pop A Top” – Jim Ed Brown
15 “Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer” – Johnny Russell
16 “Bottle, Bottle” – Jim Ed Brown
17 “Friends In Low Places – Garth Brooks
18 “Drinking Champaign” – Cal Smith
19 “Alcohol” – Brad Paisley
20 “Red Red Wine” – Neil Diamond
All Jacked Up — Gretchen Wilson
Drinkin’ ‘Bout You — Big & Rich
Thinkin’ Problem — David Ball
Big Time — Big & Rich
(not country, but one of my favorites — and it sounds country) It’s Saturday Night — The Proclaimers
My favorite part of St. Patrick’s Day is the color green! However, though I’m not a drinker, I love a good drinkin’ song!
In no particular order:
* Sunday Morning Coming Dowm (Johnny Cash)
* Friends In Low Places (Garth Brooks)
* One MOre Last Chance (Vince Gill)
* Straight Tequila Night (John Anderson)
* Chug-A-Lug (Roger Miller)
* Tonight I’m Gonna Cry (Keith Urban)
* Tonight I’ll just Stay Here And Drink (Merle Haggard)
* Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley/Allison Krauss)
* Little Rock (Collin Raye)
* Ten Rounds (Tracy Byrd)
* Family Tradition (Hank Williams Jr.)
* There’s A Tear In My Beer (Hank & Hank)
* Cheap Whiskey (Martina McBride)
* Neon Moon (Brooks & Dunn)
* Beer In Mexico (Kenny Chesney…it’s the horns; I’m a sucker for horns! I feel like I need to justify this one.)
* I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home (David Frizzell)
* Beer Run (Garth Brooks/George Jones)
* White Lightning (George Jones)
* You Never Even Called Me By Name (David Allan Coe or Doug Supernaw/David Allan Coe)
*Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye (Charlie Daniels)
I know there are many others. I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot.
Oh yeah, Miranda Lambert’s version of “Dry Town.”
Oh yeah again, “You Ain’t Much Fun” by Toby and “Get Drunk And BeSomebody” (It’s the horns again).
I prefer the obscure! (As longs as its good “real” country that is….)
Dave Cox – Alcohol of Fame
JR and the Roadkill Choir – That’s Why Sometimes Daddy’s Need a Drink
Lane Turner – Happy Hour
Jamey Johnson – The Beer Song
Doug Supernaw – Honky Tonkin’ Fool
Adam Harvey – Beauty’s In The Eye of the Beerholder (Australian)
Rebecca Lynn Howard – I’m Not Who You Think I Am
(See, I told you I like the obscure…..)
How ’bout
“The Pint of No Return” – Stonewall Jackson
Glad someone else out there likes Cheap Whiskey by Martina and I love Dry Town by Miranda as well but one of my favorites is
The Bottle by Trent Tomlinson
Well, Jamey Johnson, Garth Brooks, Miranda Lambert, Martina, et al are all of my favorites covered already. Hmmmmm! That only leaves one left:
Jimmy Buffet – Let’s Get Drunk and S***w! :-o
Here’s a few more:
The Derailers – “Cold Beer, Hot Women, & Cool Country Music”
Dwight Yoakam – “This Drinkin’ Will Kill Me”
Eleven Hundred Springs – “Thunderbird Will Do Just Fine”
Gary Allan – “Don’t Tell Mama”
Gary Allan – “Bourbon Borderline”
Gary Allan – “Wine Me Up”
Jason Boland – “Can’t Tell If I Drink”
Joe Nichols – “Let’s Get Drunk and Fight”
John Anderson – “Something to Drink About”
John Anderson – “Brown Liquor”
Roger Creager – “The Everclear Song”
Toby Keith – “Get Drunk and Be Somebody”
Townes Van Zandt – “Talking Thunderbird Blues”
Neal McCoy – Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On
Blake Shelton – The More I Drink
Toby Keith – I Love This Bar
Shelly West – Jose Quervo
Joe Nichols – She Only Smokes When She Drinks
I do enjoy “Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On”!
Hazzard – The Bottle Took the Man
Drinking Bone- Tracy Byrd
kind of corny, but still enjoyable
Dear Blank – Hedley
The first line is “Dear blank / I’m sorry I blanked your blank / But’d you’d understand if you knew how much beer that I drank.”
beer thirty –brooks & dunn
Tap the bottle and twist the cap -YBT
One burbon, one scotch, and one beer- John Lee Hooker
Irish Drinking Song- flogging Molly
Cold Beverage- G. Love and Special Sauce
chuchulian’s theme- various artists
Big Girl You are Beautiful- Mika
i need to add Longneck Bottle – Garth Brooks and Steve Wariner
Nobody Drinks Alone= Keith urban
Drinkin Bone= Tracy Byrd
10 Rounds With Jose Cuerve= Tracy Byrd
Drinkin Me Lonely= Chris Young
Two Pina Coladas= Garth Brooks
Drinkin Songs And other logic= Clint Black
Beer Thiry= brooks and Dunn
I Love This Bar= Toby Keith
and oh so many more i could go on and on
My favorites are:
Pub With No Beer-Irish Rovers
Seven Drunken Nights-Dubliners
George Jones:
“If Drinking Don’t Kill Me”
” The King is Gone” (and so are you)
” Wine colored Roses”
and many more……
How about Waylon and Willie, “If I can Find a Clean Shirt”
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound – Hank Jr.
Dwight Yoakam – Two Doors Down, Since I Started Drinking Again
Whiskey Lullaby is one of my favotites songs ever, but is really a “drinking song”?
Great thread!
There’s a lot of great ones listed so far, but I feel that I gotta mention:
“The Lord Loves the Drinkin’ Man” by Mark Chesnutt (or Kevin Fowler for those who prefer his version).
Billy Yates – “Alcohol Abuse” “Blinded by the Bud Light,” “I’m Just Drinkin’,” “Longneck Connected To The Beer Joint,” “Better Every Beer”
Aaron Lines/Joe Nichols – “Let’s Get Drunk And Fight”
Blake Shelton – “The More I Drink”
John Rich / Gretchen Wilson – One Bud Wiser
Bob Schneider – Lubricate The Death Machine –
Aaron Lines – Just Drunk Enough
Pop A Top – (by any artist)
Alison Krauss/Brad Paisley or Jon Randall – Whiskey Lullaby
David Lee Murphy – “Dust On The Bottle”
Yeah, I’d say that “Whiskey Lullaby” is a drinking song…it’s the drinking that killed them. Not a party drinking song, but I’d argue that it’s a drinking song…a suicide song too.
get my drink on and five o clock somewhere are my favorites out of that.