Best Alcohol Songs Of All Time

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Peter Durward Harris @ Amazon's Music Forums has started a thread devoted to 'best alcohol songs' - a worthy topic Here are some of their suggestions - what did they miss?

Beer drinking song (Lacy J Dalton)

Tequila sunrise (Eagles)

Jose Cuervo (Shelly West or Kimber Clayton)

Whisky river (Willie Nelson)

Seven drunken nights (Dubliners)

Lily the pink (Scaffold)

Alcohol (Brad Paisley)

Drinking champagne (George Strait)

What's made Milwaukee famous (Jerry Lee Lewis)

Cowgirl and the dandy (Dolly Parton or Brenda Lee)

One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One beer by George Thorogood

Alcohol, by The Kinks

"Country Wine", Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Sugar Turns to Alcohol - Dr Feelgood

Milk and Alcohol - Dr Feelgood

Tequila - Dr Feelgood

Licensing Hours - Newtown Neurotics

The Revolution Starts at Closing Time - Serious Drinking

Cocktails - Attila the Stockbroker

Drunk - Anna Domino

Rose - the Feeling

Life in a Scotch Sitting Room - Ivor Cutler

Red Red Wine-Neil Diamond (covers by Van Morrison, UB40)

Rehab-Amy Winehouse (her surname says it all!)

Ryan Adams&Whiskeytown

"I Had a Drink About You Last Night" - Uncle Devil Show

Margaritaville- Jimmy Buffet

Suicide Solution- Ozzy Osbourne

Have a Drink On Me-AC/DC

Too Much Alcohol/Rory Gallagher

Alcohol/Yesterday and Today

I'd Love To Have A Beer With Duncan - Slim Dusty

Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty

Drinking Again - Bette Midler

Bluebird Wine - Emmylou Harris

Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down - Emmylou Harris

Six-Pack Summer - Phil Vassar

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Willie Nelson & Leon Russell

I'm Drinking Again - Ry Cooder

Since I Started Drinking Again - Dwight Yoakam

Tears In My Beer - The Specials

Misery and Gin - Merle Haggard

Whisky In The Jar - Traditional

Cigareets Whusky And Wild Wild Women - Buck Owens

You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk - Pet Shop Boys

Moonlight and Vodka - Chris De Burgh

Why Don't We Get Drunk - Jimmy Buffett

God's Own Drunk - Jimmy Buffett

I Gotta Get Drunk - Willie Nelson

I Like Beer - Tom T Hall

"Alcohol My Only Friend" Start Trouble

I Wish You Were A Beer / Cycle Sluts From Hell

The Drunk and the Disorderly - The Alarm

Have a Beer with Fear/More Beer - Lee Ving

Drinkin' Again - Jake Burns

Whisky Mama - ZZ TOP

Whisky Man - Molly Hatchet

Whisky Rock & Roller - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Whisky Drinkin Woman - Nazareth

"Desperados Under the Eaves", Warren Zevon.

Whiskey Girl- Toby Keith

Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off- Joe Nichols

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers~ZZ TOP

She's Looking Better Every Beer~NRPS

Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down~Merle Haggard

Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) - The Doors

Wine - Electric Flag

Sweet Wine - Cream

Sweet Wine Of Love - Robin Trower

I Got Loaded - Los Lobos

Whiskey & Women - John Lee Hooker

Tom Waits - Warm Beer, Cold Women

Nightrain-Guns N Roses

barroom heros - Dropkick Murphys

the bottle let me down - Gram Parsons

Alcohol - Barenaked Ladies

There's a tear in my Beer - Hank Williams Jr.

However Much I Booze - The Who

I love this Bar - Toby Keith

You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allen Coe

Chug-a-Lug - Roger Miller

Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett

She's Acting Single (I'm Drinking Doubles) - Gary Stewart

Wasted and Ready---Ben Kweller

Tom Paxton's Bottle Of Wine:

Drunk As Cooter Brown - Cassandra Wilson

drinkin' again- jeff beck group

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cigarettes& alcohol-oasis and covered by rod stewart

Drunk With Love by Bruz Fletcher sung by Frances Faye

Terese Genecco - Drunk With Love, Purple Wine

G. Thorogood: I Drink Alone

Mary Gauthier - I drink

"Here Comes A Regular" by The Replacements.

God Loves a Drunk (Richard Thompson)

'bad girl' by madonna

Hooch (Everything)

Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Stick McGhee

Have Another Drink - Kinks

I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car and Drive Myself to Drink -numerous artists

Demon Alcohol - Ozzy

Cold Gin - KISS

From The Inside- Alice Cooper

Cold gin & From The Inside

Hooligans by V. Spy V. Spy

Snortin' Whiskey - Pat Travers Band

DRINKING AGAIN - Bette Midler cover of Dinah Washington

Frank Sinatra - MAKE IT ONE MORE FOR MY BABY, And one more for the road....

"Delicious" - Jim Backus

"Demon Alcohol" by The Kinks (

"Whisky Train" by Procul Harum ("Home").

One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One beer - Amos Milborn

Drinking Again...Hugh Shannon

I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco - Claire Hogan, cover by Carman

Donald Waits: Fax Me A Beer is by Hank Williams Jr.

Dean Martin - Bourbon from Heaven (Pennies from Heaven), When You're Drinking (When You're Smiling)

Whiskey - Hoyt Axton

Whiskey - Cucumbers

Whiskey - Charlie Daniels

Whiskey - Freddy Fender (Wasted Days and Wasted Nights)

Whiskey - The Gits (anyone remember THAT tragedy?)

Whiskey - Pat Green

Whiskey - Tom T. Hall (one of the great storytellers in song)

Whiskey - Loggins & Messina

Whiskey - New Riders of the Purple Sage

Whiskey - Leon Redbone (a real character)

Whiskey - Leslie West

Whiskey - Merle Travis

Whiskey - Stanley Brothers

Whiskey in The Jar - Phil Lynott/Thin Lizzy/Roger McGuinn/Metallica/The Pogues/Pulp:

WHISKEY RIVER - Jon Butcher, Eugene Chadbourne, Freddy Fender, Willie Nelson, Lee Rocker

RYE WHISKEY - Blue Mountain, Nick Cave, Woody Gutherie, Jesse Colin Young (Youngbloods)

WHISKEY MAN - Aztec Two Step, John Entwistle, Pete Ham, Molly Hatchet, The Who

WHISKEY AND GIN - Johnnie Ray (the original emo singer)

WHISKEY AND WIMMEN - John Lee Hooker, Canned Heat

BAD WHISKEY - Lightnin Hopkins

BAD BAD WHISKEY - Charles Brown, Buddy Guy, King Curtis, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Witherspoon

WHISKEY AND WOMEN - Black Ace, Eugene Chadbourne, David Allen Coe, John Lee Hooker

LADY WHISKEY - Wishbone Ash

WHISKEY TRAIN - Leslie West

WHISKEY BLUES - Lowell Fulson, Lightnin Hopkins, Muddy Waters

LIQUOR - ZZ Top, Superdrag

LIQUOR STORE - Dash Rip Rock, Less Than Jake, Meat Purveyors (alt country)

CORN LIQUOR - Southern Culture on the Skids, Buck Owens

DRUNK - James Brown, Canned Heat, Vic Chesnutt (a great writer), David Allen Coe, Johnny Dowd

Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy - Kylie Minogue, Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas)....

Alcohol - Barenaked Ladies

Whiskey In A Jar - Thin Lizzy / Metallica

Gin Blossoms- "Lost Horizons", "Pieces of the Night", "Mrs. Rita" and "Hold Me Down"

Jack Daniels, If You Please - David Allan Coe

Spill The Wine - Eric Burden & War

Beer (song) - Mustard Plug

Another Drinking Song - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Bartender Blues - George Jones

She's actin single (I'm Drinkin Doubles) - Gary Stewart

I think I'll Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard

I like Beer - Nev Nicholls

A Six Pack Ago - Steve Wariner

Drowning my Blues - Tom T Hall

Gin and Juice - Snoop Doggy Dogg

My Baby Loves Malt Liquor--Roge Alan Wade Tequila Sheila-Bobby Bare

A Six Pack To Go-Hank Thompson

Bubbles In My Beer-Bob Wills and many others

On Tap, In The Can & In The Bottle-Hank Thompson

Pass the Booze-Ernest Tubb

Alcohol - Gang Green

Another Wasted Night - Gang Green

Six Pack - Black Flag

Beer And Bones- John Michael Montgomery

Strawberry Wine- Deana Carter

Family Tradition- Hank Williams Jr

You Never Call Me When You're Sober- Evanesence

The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore - Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart

Don't Come Home A-drinkin' with Lovin' on Your Mind - Loretta Lynn

Thunderbird - ZZ Top

I Drink Alone - George Thorogood

"Chug-A-Lug" by Roger Miller was a Pop hit in the '60's.

"Drinkin' Again" - Bette Midler

"John Barleycorn Must Die" - Traffic

"There Stands The Glass" Carl Smith

"Cocktails" Robbie Fulks

"Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee" Jerry Lee Lewis

"Bottle of Wine" Tom Paxton

"When I Get To Drinkin'" Corn Fed Girls

The Pogues- The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn

It's the Little Things We Do - The Zutons

Wasn't That A Party by The Rovers

'fear and whiskey' by the mekons.

'whiskey' - glass eye.

'Alcohol' - the KinKs

The Piano Has Been Drinking--T. Waits:

Good Men Are Pukin' Tonight - The New Duncan Imperials

Beer Money - The Young Fresh Fellows

Pabst Blue Ribbon - The Untamed Youth

Whiskey Train - Procol Harum

Whiskey and Wine - Bedlam

Too Much Wine - Dirty Tricks

One Shot - The Monomen

Why I Drink - Go To Blazes

Drink Canada Dry - Bobby Barnett ("The sign said 'Drink Canada Dry', so I'm gonna try")

Ti**ies and Beer - Frank Zappa

T*ts and Champagne - The Joneses

Nyquil Stinger - The Classic Ruins

Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk, Boat Drinks, The Wino & I Know, God's Own Drunk, The Tiki Bar Is Open

'Fairport Convention's - cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Closin' Time'.

Sean Riley by Meisce

"One Bourbon, one Scotch and One Beer" - John Lee Hooker

" Heaven Was a Drink of Wine" - Merle Haggard - all of "serving 100 proof"

"The Bottle and the Bible" The Bottle Rockets

" Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee" - Jerry Lee Lewis

" Louisiana Blues" ...If the river was whiskey and I was a divin' duck......

" However Much I Booze" Who

"I'm Guilty" Randy Newman

" Knockin' Myself Out, Just to Knock Myself Out" Mike Bloomfield

"Red Red Wine"--Neil Diamond

cheap tequila~johnny winter

Slim Dusty- "Wobbly Boot"

Tom Waits - Warm Beer & Cold Women

Bottle of Wine- The Fireballs

"Alcohol" by Gogol Bordello

Whisky Train by Procol Harum

They Oughta Name a Drink After You - John Prine

Let's Go Get Stoned - Bonnie Bramlett

Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Austin Lounge Lizards - Old & Fat & Drunk, I'll Just Have One Beer.

"What's Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me" - Jerry Lee Lewis

"Drinkin' And Dreamin" - Waylon Jennings

"Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" - Gram Parsons

"John Barleycorn" - Traffic

"Tequila Sunrise" Eagles

"Whiskey Bent" - Hank Jr.

"Yesterday's Wine" Willie Nelson

"Whiskey River" - Johnny Bush

"Jack Daniels If You Please" - David Allan Coe

"Swinging Doors" - Merle Haggard

"Two Doors Down" - Dwight Yoakam

"Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie" - Foghat

"tha Alkaholiks" - captain hook, likwidation

"I Like Beer"--Tom T. Hall

Drinking Will Kill Me - Dwight Yoakam

Drinking Tequila - Jim Reeves

Cheap Tequila - Rick Derringer

Drownin' All My Sorrows - Eddie Cochran

Cocktails for Two - Spike Jones

Midnight Cocktail - Glenn Miller

One Beer - Amos Wilburn

Give me a Pigfoot- Bessie Smith

Wine O Baby - Big Joe Turner

Champagne Charlie is my Name - Blind Blake

Scotch and Soda - Nat King Cole

Tom Waits- The Piano has Been Drinking

Stay Free - the Clash

Alcohol - Noggintoboggan

Carry Me Home - The Living End

Closing Time - Semisonic

Drunken Lulabies - Flogging Molly

Pistol Slapper Blues - Blind Boy Fuller (covered by Rory Ghalager)

Ghost of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers

Drunk Kid Catholic - Bright Eyes

Run For Me - G. Love

"Who Put the Whiskey in the Well?" - Unknown Jazz Band

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Sweet Cherry Wine

Tommy James And The Shondells

[Shawn]

Buck-o-Nine - Drink and Fight

[Shawn]

The Irish Rovers - Wasn't that a party?

[Malicious Intent]

Terrorvision - Tequilla

It makes me happy!