I can't afford to drink !!!!???

Subject: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 09:22 PM

threading this upstairs instead of in the dank dark stinky BS celler
cuz i reckon this might lead to some intresting song sugestions..

ok..



i can't afford to drink..

literally.. too much money i can ill afford..

for far too little pleasure return..


spending half my life weekdays in the gym keeping health and fitness
as my only defense against an impoverished old age
without private pension & insurance funds..


but weekends drinking too much real proper cider..


figuratively and poetically and intelectualyy.. errrrmmm...???


somethingelseically.. times running out..

sooner or later i will be in wrong place wrong time situation
and get my teeth smashed out or get stabbed..
wake up in casualty ward..

or even worse..

wake up next morning in bed with some scrawney sullen disease ridden jaundiced junkie granma
off the subhuman estate
south of town centre....


i'm nearly 50.. i so do enjoy a pint..


but don't see a golden glowing future in it....



errrrrr....????

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 02:55 AM

To the tune of Grocer Jack (the uwritten 'Teenage Opera' thing)...


Scrumpy Jack, Scrumpy Jack,
I don't think I'll ever get
My liver back, oh no -oh!

LTS

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 05:50 AM

I dont drink any more !





















The trouble is , I dont drink any less !

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: TheSnail
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 05:56 AM

If you drink yourself to death now, you won't have to worry about the impoverished old age.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Deckman
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:04 AM

I'm 'gonna put a bar in my car and drive myseld to drink! Bob

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Mooh
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:30 AM

You don't see a future in it? Neither did I. It'll soon be 6 years dry for me. I've got enough problems without a drinking problem to compound things.

Just stop if you can. At least reduce, you'll be better for it.

Good luck.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Stu
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:36 AM

Sod it - Give him the punch ladle and Fathom the Bowl.

Life's too short.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 08:26 AM

He's pissed already.

eric

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 08:56 AM

So where are the songs?

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:36 AM

Deckman...so have you joined AAA/AA?...for people who are being driven to drink.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:41 AM

It's tragic. Too old to punkfolkrock and too young to die.(smiley face)

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 11:42 AM

Well I must admit I have cut down a lot recently, but I can't imagine life without the occasional drink. If I ever each the stage of my old friend Peter, who was pathologically incapable of putting the cork back in a bottle , I will give it up totally.
Slainthe
Giok

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Metchosin
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 12:12 PM

Here, with this you can do some vicarious drinking and dance along to the song for excercise.....oh dear....but then, I guess you could also do some vicarious dancing and drink along to the song too.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Ron Davies
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 12:19 PM

Well, there's "Drink My Wife Away"--might be different perspectives on that.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 01:50 PM

If all the booze in the world disappeared....I wouldn't blink an eye.

Same goes for all the televisions and soft drinks and casinos and bags of overly salty chips and all the pizzas and all the pro sports leagues too. I would't miss any of them if they were gone. What I do miss is good looking shoes. Nobody sells good looking shoes anymore...they all look like something from a "Sonic the Hedgehog" videogame.

Still, I can relate to your problem, punkfolkrocker. Aging is a very troublesome matter. You're worried about being "nearly 50"???

Hell, man, I am nearly 60.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Ron Davies
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 02:29 PM

I think Bill D has the right idea. Budget cuts can force interesting mergers.

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 03:22 PM

"Drinkin' buttermilk through the week
Whiskey on a Sunday. . ."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 08:25 PM

I sure would regret the lose of good drinking songs!

Words & music by Lou and Peter Barryman ©
From singing of Deb Sawyer
Portland Observatory 1990

Are You Drinking with Me, Jesus?


While you nestle by my bar stool,
Making me so calm within?
Do you warm me with your presence,
Or have I warmed myself with sin?

Chorus:

Are you drinking with me, Jesus?
I can't see you very clear;
If you're drinking with me, Jesus,
Won't you buy a friend a beer.

If you're omnipresent, Jesus,
You don't have to use the phone;
If you're always by my side, Lord,
You need never drink alone...

Do you teeter with me, Jesus,
On my way home so forlorn?
If you think that you feel bad now,
Just wait until tomorrow morn...

Does your head pound with the masses,
As hung over you do rive?
What does Heaven look like, Jesus,
Seen through holy bloodshot eyes?

Should we take a taxi, Jesus,
Or should we walk from here?
I know you can walk on water,
But can you walk on this much beer?

Chorus:(2X)

Are you drinking with me, Jesus?
I can't see you very clear;
If you're drinking with me, Jesus,
Won't you buy a friend a beer.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: I can't afford to drink !!!!???
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 05:45 PM

I would miss - dearly miss - a gin and tonic and/or a glass of wine..........