Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog

Subject: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 Apr 26 - 12:00 AM

WHAT SONG IS THIS FROM? Oh chugalug let us all go together I will free and easy be. Free and easy free and easy I will free and easy be.

It has gone through my head all day long.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: Helen
Date: 24 Apr 26 - 02:01 AM

Hi mg,

I have never heard this song and I tried searching for the lyrics but no luck. Note "chugalug" is a word used in Australian slang. It means drink up, empty the drinking vessel e.g. drinking a whole jug full of beer etc.

Can you give us some more info please?

What genre or style of music is it? It sounds like a drinking song so it could be Irish or Australian, or it might be a sea shanty?? Do you remember who sang it or whether it was a solo artist or group, do you remember which instruments were played to accompany it.

I suffered from an earworm just recently and the very knowledgeable Mudcatters identified it and put me out of my audio misery - until the next earworm invades my brain.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: GUEST,Cnd
Date: 24 Apr 26 - 10:50 AM

The only song that comes to mind for me is Chug A Lug by Roger Miller

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: Helen
Date: 25 Apr 26 - 03:25 PM

Guest mg, please come back and give us some more information, especially if you have identified the song and it has stopped being an earworm for you.

The Roger Miller song was the only one I could find too, cnd - and thank you for identifying my earworm recently in another thread!! :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: GUEST,MG
Date: 25 Apr 26 - 03:34 PM

it is a song we sang now and then in Seattle. I assume it is some sort of English tavern song. Everyone seemed to know it but i do not know any words.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: Helen
Date: 25 Apr 26 - 04:36 PM

Thanks MG.

This is probably not going to help but I searched for

song "free and easy"

and this sea shanty called Free and Easy sung by Rita Connolly was one of the search results.

Here is a video performed by Rita Connolly and Shaun Davey

There will be other songs with those lyrics, e.g. a country song by Dierks Bentley. I'll keep searching.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: Helen
Date: 25 Apr 26 - 05:23 PM

I know it's not this one, but it is fun!

Free and Easy Karaoke Song - Thomas & Friends

MG, do you remember the tune? Does it remind you of any other songs?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: what song? o chugalug let us all go tog
From: Helen
Date: 25 Apr 26 - 07:17 PM

Sorry, I know I'm posting a lot in this thread but this song just popped into my head:

Jock Stewart

That thread has a lot of variations of the lyrics and titles, and also there are two melodies attributed to it.

The tune I know is: Jock Stewart - performed by Ewan McLennan and Tim O'Brien

But the other tune is Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms. (I haven't heard that version. It's a lovely melody but I can't imagine the Jock Stewart song being sung to it.)

The version I know has these lyrics and the chorus seems like a rewritten version of your chugalug song because the word chugalug means to drink alcohol in big gulps without pausing:

Now my name is Jock Stewart,
I'm a canny young man,
And a roving young fellow I've been.

Chorus:
So be easy and free,
When you're drinkin' wi' me,
I'm a man you don't meet every day.