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Hangover Song

28 Dec 09 - 08:47 AM (#2797719)
Subject: Hangover Song
From: agingcynic

Greetings

In honor of New Year's Eve, "The Universe is Gnawing on My Head" is available for free download.

It's a blues number featuring the legendary JoeBass, now of the WIYOS. Joe created sound effects that precisely replicate the mental state that follows downing one quart of gin, followed by rye, within a nine-hour timeframe.

You can find it here:

http://daveshiflett.com

Be assured this song is not an exercise in advocacy, but instead a cautionary tale.

Season's best,

Dave Shiflett


28 Dec 09 - 11:25 AM (#2797771)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Tattie Bogle

One of my favourites, from the McCalmans: "Wrecked again":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zEpE88fT4&feature=PlayList&p=B0660686F7F42E0D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11


29 Dec 09 - 09:30 AM (#2798397)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Jim McLean

Ho about this one happy hangover

I recorded Skee Laird singing this on a country album some 30 years ago.


29 Dec 09 - 12:37 PM (#2798578)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: agingcynic

nice

terrific steel playing


30 Dec 09 - 06:38 AM (#2799140)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: topical tom

Tom Paxton's "Wasn't That a Party?"


30 Dec 09 - 03:22 PM (#2799496)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Dave MacKenzie

Billy Connelly used to sing "As Usual"! (I woke up with an aching head......)


22 Sep 13 - 05:59 AM (#3560271)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST,isobel jones

fave known and been a friend of skee,s for 40 years,she was one of the best country singers I know


22 Sep 13 - 06:27 AM (#3560276)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST,Guest TF

Hamish Imlach used to sing "As Usual".


22 Sep 13 - 07:49 AM (#3560292)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Jack Campin

There is a furiously energetic reel by the Scottish accordionist Ian Lowthian called "The Hangover Poo". I guess the fact that it happens very fast is the point.


22 Sep 13 - 10:50 AM (#3560328)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Elmore

"If only the birds were booze, If the sun was a party giver, If I could give someone else me liver, On a Monday morning." From "On a Monday Morning" by Cyril Tawny.


22 Sep 13 - 01:58 PM (#3560395)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST

Ian composed the tune Hangover Poos which can be found here http://thesession.org/tunes/3151
It goes well with another compositionof his The Lavatory Seat!


22 Sep 13 - 08:18 PM (#3560464)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Tattie Bogle

Hamish Imlach also sang "Goodbye Booze".

My son, when about 5, once referred to Edinburgh's Hanover Street as "Hangover Street": not so far off the mark, as it is crossed by Rose St which has numerous pubs!


11 Jan 17 - 08:52 AM (#3831893)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: FreddyHeadey

Hungover Liver    ( FAREWELL TO THE GOLD (parody)... )

thread.cfm?threadid=44110#1487945
(& see 'Shot over' edit ... thread.cfm?threadid=44110#1488062)


11 Jan 17 - 01:15 PM (#3831942)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Leadfingers

Leon Rosselsson wrote a hangover song too


12 Jan 17 - 10:48 AM (#3832092)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Gda Music

Sparrow too in his true calypso style wonders.....*Why get sober*

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHHAW-Cl4Aw

What`s the use of getting sober? when you know you`re getting drunk again
What`s the use of drinking alcohol?...when it only confuse your brain.

GJ


12 Jan 17 - 11:29 AM (#3832104)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: Jack Campin

Davie Robertson - Drinkin' Man

I've heard Davie sing it but it was a long time ago and I've forgotten the tune - anyone know?


12 Jan 17 - 05:00 PM (#3832162)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: FreddyHeadey

Davie Robertson - Drinkin' Man
On Spotify
http://open.spotify.com/track/2RiWwj2aWZyDVRDebowAiZ


26 Mar 18 - 11:46 AM (#3913276)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST,Graham Watts

I'm searching for the lyrics of 'Hangover' by Leon Rosselson. It was on 'Songs for Sceptical Circles' but can't find my recording.


26 Mar 18 - 02:37 PM (#3913318)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST,John Alton Maxwell Whitley

Wow what a great find there man, I'm going to sing this at my daughter's third bat mitzvah, You know last week me and the son went hunting over in the woods outside Springfield, Virgina, when my boy Tom and me drank a whole twelve pack of coor's light. Boy did Tom have a bad time the next morning and I'd have loved to know this song then to yodel to him. My daughter will appreciate this as she's a recovering alcoholic after her husband left her and got custody of her five kids,

Anyway thanks again for the find, will be put to good use.


26 Mar 18 - 03:36 PM (#3913334)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST,Mick Pearce (MCP)

Graham

Here's the Leon Rosselson song. The album is available on amazon (streaming, mp3 or - if you have £43 to spare! - vinyl).

Mick



HANGOVER
(Leon Rosselson)

Things are going very badly, drunks are drivelling down the drain.
Rats are nibbling at the rafters, I can almost feel the pain.
I've got corkscrews in my eardrums and eardrums in my brain.
Things are getting rather dodgy, think I'll start the day again.


Can't remember where my foot is, can't think what I want it for;
And the ceiling's started spinning, in the middle of the floor.
If I knew which way my eyes were I could maybe find the door.
There's the Black Hole of Calcutta and it wasn't there before.

"Keep the home fires brightly burning", "O me darling Clementine".
There's a footstep on the landing and it isn't one of mine.
"Lay me down and roll me over". What the hell's the other line?
Things are getting rather tricky, and they're trickling down my spine.


I can hear the sound of knocking. I'm afraid I may be dead.
And my arms are out of order and my legs are leathery lead.
Rats are gnawing at my corkscrews, I've got eardrums in my head.
Things are going very badly, think I'm going back to bed.


Source: Leon Rosselson, album Songs for Sceptical Circles, 1966


27 Mar 18 - 12:29 PM (#3913507)
Subject: RE: Hangover Song
From: GUEST,Graham

Hello Mick,
Many thanks for your swift response. What a great song.
Very grateful,
Graham.