Your Drinking Songs

[Stackabones]

Maxtimus has thread about one he's working up, and I didn't want to hijack it. Ya got any drinkin' songs? Let's keep it to one per songster. Temperance, ya hear.

 

I wrote & recorded during a mid-week drinking session this last summer.

 

Drink To The Bird

The harvest moon shone

On a man all alone

And the city was grey as a stone

And he spoke a toast that only I heard

Mr Flood, drink to the bird.

 

Drink to the bird

Drink to the bird

Soon enough you'll be old and absurd

So, Mr Flood, drink to the bird.

 

Knowing most things will break

He felt his bones ache

Not a friend left who'd still be awake

Still he raised a glass and mumbled and slurred

Mr Flood, drink to the bird.

 

He raised the jug in the air

For there was plenty to share

He looked around, but there was nobody there.

He drained one more and was undeterred.

Mr Flood, drink to the bird.

 

***

 

fyi, Mr. Flood's Party

[Ontological]

I've got one. I posted it here already but in case some of y'all missed you can press my soundclick.com link below and listen to I Get Around.

 

Here's the lyrics:

 

I Get Around

 

Chorus

I get around, round, round

Drivin

[easilyspooked]

written and recorded last night by random chance, sortof a drinking tune, critiques welcome.

 

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8493935

 

DRINK IT UP

 

I watched your tail lights in the rain

And my heart soaked through with all that pain

I stood right there for an hour or two

I thought about lightning, me and you

I went inside dripping wet

And I hit that bottle to forget

But it wasn

[Lee Knight]

How about a little crystal meth ditty? I was working as an audio tech in a Call Center. One of the agents, high on meth, forgot to mute his headset between calls, we were recording calls for quality. The italics below are taken from his conversion with his next door agent and fellow tweaker. I need to dig up the recording. I use the actual sound bites off his mic and timed it to beat.

 

Breakin' Chains

 

Breakin

[easilyspooked]

"You want something better, but the {censored}ty will do

Get your {censored} together, that

[Chicken Monkey]

Here's one I wrote a few years ago. I thought I had it on soundclick, but it cuts off after a minute or so:

 

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5127876

 

Lyrics:

 

I can't stop the world from turning

I can't stop the room from spinning

I can't stop myself from thinking

It all over from the beginning

 

And the only thing that I can find

That helps to ease my troubled mind

Is drinking, so I drink, but then

They send me home at 2 am

 

chorus

So I'm lying in my bed, hopin'

That I'm not up before the bars are open.

 

The sun comes through the window

in the morning like a brick.

It's alarm clock armageddon

and my blood is running thick.

 

Call the butler, call the maid,

Call someone to shut that shade,

and call the Quarter Moon Saloon

To see if they'll be open soon...

 

repeat chorus.

[blue2blue]

13th Bar Blues

 

Angel in the Bottle [more play options]

 

 

Blue Recollectiion [file]

[djowens123]

Life!!!!

[Spleencage]

Be careful exhibiting any type of sense of humor in this particular forum.

I posted some lyrics here (100% family friendly) to demonstrate what NOT to do when penning lyrics and the administrator wasted no time in informing me ( in the way those who are power happy) this forum was no place for any type of negativity or humor. This same person claimed to have notified me twice ( however it was only once) and then scolded me like a little child, judged my character severely, and threatened to ban me from HC. He also claimed I had broken rules for putting copyrighted material ( which it wasn't). Silly rule if you ask me. How can you discuss lyric writing without quoting copyrighted material?

[Stackabones]

 

Be careful exhibiting any type of sense of humor in this particular forum. I posted some lyrics here (100% family friendly) to demonstrate what NOT to do when penning lyrics and the administrator wasted no time in informing me ( in the way those who are power happy) this forum was no place for any type of negativity or humor. This same person claimed to have notified me twice ( however it was only once) and then scolded me like a little child, judged my character severely, and threatened to ban me from HC. He also claimed I had broken rules for putting copyrighted material ( which it wasn't). Silly rule if you ask me. How can you discuss lyric writing without quoting copyrighted material?

 

 

Ok, we get it. No need to cut & paste your post repeatedly across five or six different threads.

[smudge_lad]

Here's one me and my mate wrote, usually sing it when we're out in the pub:

 

Hello's and High's

 

Hello, how you doing? You must be new in town

You don't know where you're going, let me show you round

There's not much to do in a seedy hole like this

We struggle through 'til the weekend, then we go get p*ssed

 

Hi there, Friday night, we like to hit the town

We drink, sweat, cheat and lie, and turn them upside down

 

(Chorus)

So little time, so much to drink

Put your brain on hold, cause you won't need to think

Leave your conscience at home, cause you won't need to care

If we can make it to Friday, then we''ll do it again

 

 

Hello it

[sameer]

The hands on the clock stopped moving a long time ago

To the horror of cops and mothers and daughters

But I've made it to 2am

Now it's nothing to do with them

It's my life - or funeral

 

Another round for me and invisible friends

I know it might appear to be lonely

But here's to Napoleon

We'll drink till the Stoli's gone

Then start over again

 

A man raises his hat, and says "Johnnie Walker" to you

Another stands guard at the Tower of London

There's heroes and villains here

Captain Morgan and Belvedere

And Queen Victoria

 

Wild Turkeys and bats fly around in this curious zoo

Then even the Grouse is said to be famous

Flying from bar to bed

Triangles and stars are red

Swirling into the blue

 

The hands on the clock stopped moving a long time ago

So just a last drop can last us forever

Ring bells and strike up the harp

We'll sail on the Cutty Sark

Over the edge of the world

[Boydog]

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7395168

 

Hey bartender ( My Name ain

[Sentry68]

Where

[Stackabones]

 

Although John Scofield's 'Boozer' is the best intrumental interpretation of drinking ever.

 

 

Don't forget Jobim's Captain Bacardi. Most inebriated trombone melody of all time. The whole track staggers and sways.

 

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[Wyzsard]

Good stuff here guys.

 

Here is my drinking song. Goin for a non-commercial Alt-Country thing.

 

 

Old Friend (I'll Have To Run)

 

it

[xdrummer]

Half Way To Drunk

Copyright: Dragons Cove Music 2007

 

Half Way To Drunk

 

Verse

At 17 you were my queen, the focus of my life

At 22 we said "I do", you became my wife

At 24 you walked out the door, with some other guy

Now it's 2 AM, here I am, wondering who and why

 

Chorus

And I'm half way to drunk, and half way over you

You'll be a foggy memory, before the night is through

12 empty bottles on the floor, I think I'll need a dozen more

And I'm half way to drunk, and half way over you

 

Verse

I thought the two of us would be a pair for more than 80 years

But now I'm trying to forget the last 7 through my tears

I'm thinkin' I'll keep drinkin' till the morning meets the sky

And I'm half way to drunk, and I'm forgetting why

 

Chorus