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Thread #24205   Message #2897825
Posted By: LadyJean
01-May-10 - 12:43 AM
Thread Name: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics!
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics!
There's a wonderful French song calles "Sans Souci". If my French and my memory were a bit better I'd write it out.

"Father Dear Father Come Home" comes from a novel called "Ten Nights In a Bar Room", which accounts the troubles the Sickle and Sheaf tavern create in a small New England town.

My mom used to sing a parody of it, with the chorus, "Oh the doors swing in and the doors swing out. And some pass in, while others pass out. Your father I fear is having a beer, behind those swinging doors." But I've forgotten a few of the verses. I'd be thrilled if someone else knew them and posted them.

There's always "Farewell to Whiskey", which being by Robert Burns is fairly moving.