Lyr Req: Let's All Get Drunk Together

Subject: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 02:57 PM

I'm puzzling where I've heard this drinking song. It seems traditional and I do know the tune but I'm not going to try to post it at this time. The chorus runs something like this:

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In fair or stormy weather
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Let's all get drunk together!

I'm thinking I heard it late one night at the Mystic Sea Music Festival but I can't find any sang that seems to match.

There's an outside chance that it's a varient of the old whalermen hauling shanty "Blow Ye Winds in the Morning", the lyrics of which I'm certainly familiar with. But all my attempts to search here or via Goggle for the lines above have failed.

The second line might be "In spite of stormy weather" and the last line might be "We'll all get drunk together."

I've also searched Stan Hugill's books and any number of other sea song collections, to no avail.

This mystery may drive me to drink!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 03:14 PM

I don't think this is what you want but it's all I found:


(written by: JOSEPH FOREMAN)
[Chorus]
Let's all get drunk tonight
I hope I don't fight with a punk tonight
Let's all get high tonight
Maybe nobody will die tonight
Let's all sell yell tonight
I hope I don't go back to jail tonight
Let's go to the club tonight
Find a woman that want to make love tonight
A yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Let's get dumb
Drink some rum
Make my teeth and gum feel real numb
We'll be thinking bout survivin
While we're drinkin and we're drivin
Hope I don't wreck when my vision gets blurry
Sober up lookin at an all white jury
Judge don't like no drunk like me
Punk might give me strike number three
Cause when I'm drunk and when I'm high
I don't give a damn bout a DUI
Let's just get lit
Dance like a nitwit
Try to talk to the women that we can't get with
Me and my staff make everybody laugh
If the beer runs out we can all go half
It's Friday night got the perfect weather
Let's get drunk together

[Chorus]

Bacardi, Colt .45
Let's party we still alive
Tomorrow brings pain and sorrow
but tonight, we're all right
Drink that beer till your belly can't hold it
Tell the homeboys we fittin to get loaded
Rollin through the Ante-dope Valley out there
Hope the cops don't smell that beer on my breath
Cause if the sheriff
Catch a whiff
Of that fifth
It'll probably knock him stiff
Don't look dumb if my breath on hum
Stick your hand in you're pocket please, pass some gum
So the cops can't tell my breath smell
We won't go to jail
We'll go to Palmdale
With the beautiful women and the beautiful weather
We can both get drunk together

[Chorus]

Baby I beg your pardon
But your outfit's givin me a hardon
Maybe some way, maybe some how
You could dance with me, right here, right now
Been lookin at you all night long
That DJ's playin my favorite song
Everything's splendid, don't mean no harm
Don't get offended when I pull your arm
I ain't felt this good since I don't know when
And I might not feel this good again
It's Friday night, beautiful weather
Let's get drunk together

[Chorus - 2X]
From:http://www.soundclick.com/lyrics/getLyrics.cfm?T_ID=T++4176850&A_ID=R+++503761

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 04:02 PM

Sorcha-

Good try but a totally different vintage.

Thinking back to Mystic, I seem to hear Mike Sinsigalli droning away at this ditty in the wee hours of the morning.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 05:55 PM

I'v been singing it for many years Charlie, as a matter of fact it's on my "Always Wecome" CD. You may well have heard me sing it. It is a variant of Blow ye Winds in the Morning. It was collected by Fredrick Pease Harlow on board the Akbar, and is included in his book Chanteying Aboard American Vessels.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 06:01 PM

All I can think of is let's all get drunk and go naked, all get drunk and go naked, all get drunk and go naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaked... and lie in a great big pile (to the tune of For he's a jolly good fellow). I'm fairly sure that is a different "vintage" also!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 08:01 AM

Marc-

Thanks for confirming that the song is a variant of "Blow Ye Winds in the Morning." I did check your website and Harlow but didn't find a title that seemed to correlate. But now I know that my "way-back files" were not entirely wrong. However, I will note that the chorus in my edition of Harlow is the usual one, rather than "Let's all get drunk together."

I'm thinking of using the tune for "Ballad of the Old Navy" by Burt Franklin Jenness which I'll initiate on another thread. I think you'll like that ditty about a classic sailortown brawl.

Thanks for all the other suggestions as well but it's Marc who nailed this request.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 09:08 AM

In the Harlow collection it's called "It's advertised in Boston". It's on page 211 in the Mystic Seaport reissue of Chanteying aboard american Ships

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 09:14 AM

Marc-

Thanks! Now we're on the same page.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 07:28 PM

So, is someone going to post the lyrics?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: GUEST,Granny in South Wales
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 08:59 PM

this is probably not what you're after, either, but it could be easily parodied...when I was in Primary school in the 50s we used to sing this and I am pretty sure it was called the "Uist Tramping Song" not sure of all the words but will give it a go

Come along, come along, let us foot it out together
Come along, come along, in fair or stormy weather
With the dew on the mountains, and the bonnie purple heather
Let us sing in happy chorus, come along, come along.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 10:34 PM

Jim-

You mean someone else in the world is curious? ;~)

The lyrics are close to the conventional "Tis Advertised in Boston" but with a different tune and chorus (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 to line up chords):

Chorus:

C------------------F-----C
So cheer up, me lively lads,
---------------------G
In spite of stormy weather;
C---------------F------C
Cheer up, me lively lads,
---------------G-----G7-C
We'll all get drunk to-ge-ther!

I'll post the whole song with chords in a day or two.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: NightWing
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 10:52 PM

ABC of the tune would be nice too (if you can)

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let's All Get drunk Together
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 08:07 AM

The entire book CHANTEYING ABOARD AMERICAN SHIPS by Frederick Pease Harlow, as republished by the Mystic Seaport Museum in 2004 is well worth the investment, and includes musical notation for many of the songs. The narration is also quite fascinating, being based on the author's own experience as a young sailor aboard three 19th century tall ships.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble