Well, then there's another reason for drinking:

"Mickey's Warning" also sometimes called "BLUE BLEEZING BLIND DRUNK" which I learned from a recording by Belle Stewart and I think is in the DigiTrad under one of those titles.

"Of whiskey I ne're was a lover, but what can a poor woman do?
I'll go and I'll drown all my sorrows, but I wish I could drown Mickey, too.
So I'll go and I'll get blue bleezin' blind drunk
Just to give Mickey a warning.
And just for spite I will stay out all night
And come rolling home drunk in the morning.

Bat Goddess