Subject: Lyr Add: COPPER KETTLE From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:18 PM I think that one of the great classics in this genre is "COPPER KETTLE" (known to some as "Lay There By the Juniper").
Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil,
Build you a fire with hickory, hickory and ash and oak,
My daddy he made whiskey, my granddaddy did too, Does anyone know any more verses for it? Or...suggest a classic alcoholic?s song of your own. Let's see what we can come up with here...
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Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Pinetop Slim Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:20 PM You bring that Gillian Welch line to mind: That old copper kettle made a fool out of me. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SeanM Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:22 PM Hmmm... I first saw this and thought songs for alcoholics such as THE DRUNKARD'S CHILD, which may well win an award for the most over the top soppy and untintentionally funny temperance song ever... M |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:28 PM Oh man, I have GOT to hear that one... |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Sorcha Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:29 PM RYE WHISKEY |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:31 PM Tear jerker: "COME HOME FATHER" and "PLEASE DON'T SELL MY DADDY NO MORE WINE". Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds I know you from old You rob my poor pockets of silver and gold If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck I would dive to the bottom and never come up But the ocean ain't whiskey and I ain't no duck So I'll play Jack of Diamonds and count on my luck. Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry If you don't give me rye whiskey, I know I will die I eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm dry And if moonshine don't kill meI will live 'til I die. My brother Bill has a still on the hill He stands 'bout 4'9" But he thinks he's a giant if you give him half a pint Of that good old mountain dew They call it that good old mountain dew dew dew Them that refuse it are few But I'll rustle up my mug if you'll fill up my jug With that good old mountain dew. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: oggie Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:34 PM Richard Thompson 'God Loves a Drunk' All the best Steve |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: MMario Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:34 PM THE PUB WITH NO BEER Jug o punch [actually, when I am drunk, any song that comes to mind] |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Wesley S Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:43 PM My favorite is "Tonight the bottle let me down". The Gillian Welch song mentioned earlier is called "TEAR MY STILLHOUSE DOWN".
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Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Amergin Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:44 PM Don't forget NANCY WHISKEY.....and here's another one.....The Drunkard King |
Subject: Lyr Add: FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME^^^ From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:44 PM Leave me alone. I'm having fun. FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME Father, dear Father, come home with me now. The clock in the steeple strikes one. You said you were coming right home from the shop As soon as your day's work was done. The fire has gone out, the house is all dark, And Mother's been waiting since tea With poor little Benny so sick in her arms And no one to help her but me. CHORUS: "Come home, come home, come home. Please Father, dear Father, come home." These are the words of a child Which the night winds repeat as they roam. Oh, who could resist this most plaintive of prayers? "Please Father, dear Father, come home." Father, dear Father, come home with me now. The clock in the steeple strikes two. The night has grown colder and Benny is worse And he has been calling for you. Indeed he is worse. Ma says he will die Perhaps before morning has dawned, And this is the message she sent me to bring: "Come quickly or he will be gone." CHORUS Father dear Father come home with me now The clock in the steeple strikes three The house is so lonely. The night is so long For poor weeping Mother and me. Yes, we are alone. Poor Benny is dead, And gone with the angels of light. And these are the very last words that he said: "I want to kiss papa goodnight." CHORUS Obviously this was written as a plea for a Temperance Movement. A treasure that my Nana used to sing. Mary |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Jon Freeman Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:50 PM BOOZING Jon |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:51 PM The Champagne Chorus from Fledermaus. Am I missing an "i"? |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: MMario Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:54 PM Blue bleedin' blind drunk! |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Mark Clark Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:55 PM THERE STANDS THE GLASS ONE FOR MY BABY (AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD) A Six Pack To Go Wasting Away In Margaritaville DON'T COME HOME A-DRINKIN' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) WHITE LIGHTNIN' - Mark |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:59 PM Cracklin' Rose? |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Amergin Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:01 PM Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw? |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Midchuck Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:03 PM Someone mentioned The Old Dun Cow already, but it approaches being my favorite. When I have more energy, I'll type in the words to Only Drinking Beer by Dick McCormack (who is featured today in the New England section of the Wall Street Journal, tho' I doubt anyone on here gets it). Peter. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:09 PM DRUNKEN SAILOR Mrs. Robinson |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:14 PM THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN |
Subject: Lyr Add: ANOTHER DRINKIN' SONG^^ From: Mbo Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:26 PM ANOTHER DRINKIN' SONG by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Gonna dive into a dive I've dove into before Gonna haunt a haunt I've haunted like a million times before A familiar joint where getting drunks' the only point To frequent this place with any frquency at all Counting on a remedy I've counted on before Goin' with the cure that's never failed me What you call the disease, I call the remedy What you're calling the cause, I call the cure Gonna sing a song, a song to you, a song I've sung before Belt out a ballad that I've belted out a million times or more The words I'm gonna scream, and getting drunks' the central theme To the lyrics, if you can make the lyrics out at all Just a devotion to a potion Now please, no applause A dedication to a medication A crutch, a cure, a cause What I've counted on to pick me up Has knocked me to my knees Before I hit the floor once more I'll call it the disease Counting on a remedy I've counted on before Goin' with the cure that's never failed me What you call the disease, I call the remedy What you're calling the cause, I call the cure |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Sorcha Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:49 PM BOTTLE OF WINE (friend of mine...), Keg O' Brandy. and do just tunes count? There is Farewell to Whiskey, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Whiskey You're the Devil....... |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowbetter Date: 09 Aug 00 - 05:54 PM "I Saw a Man at the Close of the Day" traditional associated with Doc Watson "Wharf Rat" The Grateful Dead "Nil se na La" Irish traditional song about the "fhear gan ciall, ce d'fhag me chios i mo scornach" literally the man without sense who left his rent($) in his throat Rich |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:00 PM LANDLORD FILL THE FLOWING BOWL |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Nynia Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:09 PM What about Doh - the stuff that buys me beer Ray - the guy who sells me beer Me - the guy who drinks the beer Fah - The distance to my beer Soh - I think I'll have beer La - La, la, la, la, la, la, beer Tea - No thanks I'm drinking beer That will bring us back to........... Nynia. |
Subject: Lyr Add: Layin' in the Gutter(?)^^ From: Downeast Bob Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:14 PM Dunno if I can make the lines break properly, but here goes: Layin' in the gutter, pretzels in my beard; Shirt all stained with whisky; I thought the end was near; 'Til the Salvation Army comes; And Saves me from the hearse; Let's all bust a gut now and sing another verse: Chorus: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Throw a nickel on the drum, save another drunken bum. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Throw a nickel on the drum, and you'll be saved. Way up in heaven where there is no snow; And all year round, the watermelons grow; Where the rich man, the poor man, the gentile and the Jew; All sit together in the same damn pew. Oh there'll be no distinctions there. There'll be no distinctions there. The Lord is good the Lord is just; The Lord is head of the railroad trust. There'll be no distinctions there. Chorus HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 17-Jan-2001. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Diva Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:17 PM FATHOM THE BOWL, and forgive me for being pedantic but BLUE BLEEZING BLIND DRUNK which I sing as Mickey's Warning, is really about wife beating. |
Subject: Lyr Add: O Come, Come Away^^ From: Burke Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:19 PM O Come, Come Away This is in the Sacred Harp. I've been told there is a drinking song that known to the same tune in England.
Oh come, come away,
Lyrics: Bradbury's Orila, 1859 |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Micca Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:23 PM And of course theres this one that Liz the Squeak sings: ALCOHOLIC'S ANTHEM |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:25 PM THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR. Perfect Nynia. Says it all. And Little Hawk, thanks for the thread. Finally found a place to make a sizeable contribution. |
Subject: Lyr Add: ALCOHOLIC'S ANTHEM^^^ From: Morticia Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:27 PM ALCOHOLICS ANTHEM
Wahts the use of drinking tea, indulging in sobriety
Mix yourself a shandy,drown yourself a brandy
Aberattions metabolic, ceilings that are hyperbolic this is, I think, to the tune of Men of Harlech....no idea who wrote it. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Morticia Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:30 PM bugger.....Micca and I must have submitted at the same time...could have done without the typing :) |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:39 PM SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME that great ditty from "Jaws" "Get Me To The Church On Time" |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Amergin Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:44 PM Christy Moore's DELERIUM TREMENS |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Diva Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:47 PM I've remembered another one...The Drunkard...used to sing it can't remember the words (could be the drink), anyway its on Steeleye Span's Rocket Cottage album. |
Subject: Lyr Add: IN PRAISE OF ALCOHOL (Robert W. Service^^ From: Jeri Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:51 PM Bottle o' the Best for single malt fanatics. Here's one I didn't see in the DT and could do the tune up (next week - I'm going away for the weekend) if anyone's interested. In Praise of Alcohol Words: Robert W. Service Set to music by David Parry Of vintage wine I am a lover To drink deep would be my delight If 'twere not for the bleak hangover I'd get loaded every night I'd whoop it up with songs and laughter, Whoop it up with songs and laughter Whoop it up with songs and laughter If 'twere not for the morning after. Although to soberness I'm given It is a thought I've often thunk The nearest that is earth to heaven Is to get sublimely drunk Is to achieve divine elation To achieve divine elation To achieve divine elation By means of generous libation Alas, the winecups claim their payment And as the price is often pain If we could know what morning grey meant We never would get soused again Rather than buy a hobnailed liver Rather than buy a hobnailed liver Rather than buy a hobnailed liver I'm sure that we'd abstain forever. But how I love that glow of liquor As joyfully I drink it up Hoping that unto life's last flicker With praise I'll raise the ruby cup So let me like a jolly monk So let me like a jolly monk So let me like a jolly monk Proceed to get sublimely drunk. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Micca Date: 09 Aug 00 - 07:00 PM Morty, that blue clicky tells the author too. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY^^^ From: thosp Date: 09 Aug 00 - 07:02 PM THE WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY (Dorsey Dixon) Who did you say it was brother? Who was it fell by the way? When whiskey and blood run together Did you hear anyone pray? cho: I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother I didn't hear nobody pray I heard the crash on the highway But I didn't hear nobody pray. When I heard the crash on the highway I knew what it was from the start I went to the scene of destruction And a picture was stamped on my heart. There was whiskey and blood all together Mixed with glass where they lay Death played her hand in destruction But I didn't hear nobody pray. I wish I could change this sad story That I am now telling you But there is no way I can change it For somebody's life is now through. Their soul has been called by the Master They died in a crash on the way And I heard the groans of the dying But I didn't hear nobody pray. peace (Y) thosp HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 17-Jan-2001. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE PIG GOT UP AND SLOWLY WALKED AWAY From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Aug 00 - 07:02 PM Wonderful...how about this...it's not a song, it's a poem:
'Twas in early last December |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: thosp Date: 09 Aug 00 - 07:21 PM Little Hawk -----lolpeace (Y) thosp |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: reggie miles Date: 09 Aug 00 - 07:43 PM Demon Alchohol, can't remember the author I Want To Be In A Barroom, by Robert Oneman Johnson |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Quincy Date: 09 Aug 00 - 09:00 PM What about the Dubliner's "SEVEN DRUNKEN NIGHTS?" (If you've got the money Ive got the time!!) Also "The Pub Crawl" "GIVE THE WOMAN IN THE BED MORE PORTER" and of course "THE MOONSHINER" -Yvonne |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: MMario Date: 09 Aug 00 - 09:38 PM I din't say blue bleezzin blind drunk, I said blue bleedin' blind drunk, which is about husband beating if anything.... |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Mark Clark Date: 09 Aug 00 - 10:54 PM Used to sing one years ago and now this is all I can remember:
Away, away with rum by gum, Maybe someone else knows this or where it came from. A tongue in cheek temperance song that I only have a chorus for is sung to the tune of Wabash Cannonball:
We're against all forms of gamblin', - Mark
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Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: dick greenhaus Date: 09 Aug 00 - 11:02 PM Most of the lyrics submitted here are in DigiTrad. Try a search for @drink, if you want some more. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Aug 00 - 11:11 PM Those who are against sex had better be prepared for extinction. To the devil with the WCTU. Och, I'll drink tae that! |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Mark Clark Date: 09 Aug 00 - 11:12 PM Thanks Dick... I needed that! Of course there are several versions of "Rum by Gum" in the DT. I was not able to find any hint of the second snippet though. Maybe it will seem familiar to someone. - Mark |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Margaret V Date: 09 Aug 00 - 11:43 PM "Drinkin' in My Sunday Dress" is a grand, silly song by Maria McKee; starts off something like:
I can barely feel the sheets |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: JamesJim Date: 10 Aug 00 - 12:20 AM Not sure of the name (Travelled this wide world over?), but first verse: I came home the other night, as drunk as I could be and I saw a horse in the stable, where my horse ought to be. I said to my wife, my pretty little wife, explain this thing to me, what's this horse doing here in the stable where my horse ought to be. She said, "you old fool, you blind fool, can't you plainly see, it's nothing but a milkcow, my mother sent to me. Well I've travelled this wide world over, a million miles or more, but a bridle and saddle on a milkcow, I never did see before. |
Subject: RE: Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! From: Elise Date: 10 Aug 00 - 01:15 AM THREE DRUNKEN MAIDENS and Get that child some porter |
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