Songs About Drinking

Paul Villers · 2025-11-14T20:38:30Z

Well - 'er-indoors has come down with an unspeakably horrendous 'stomach thing' on the day when we were due to leave for a weekend away with our dearest friend in respect of his birthday (you'll know him but I won't name him). Said friend is somewhere up North with family, 'er-indoors is in bed looking particularly peaky and I'm left to my own devices. The only thing is to play tunes, have a small gin (small being an advisory term) and populate the Americana-Uk Forums with content as is my wont. Here we go with songs about 'drink' ('Drinking Songs' is a different thing which we can address later). Give me, if you will, three songs which specifically talk about your favourite poison. I'll start: I have a completely irrational love for this song. I don't know why - maybe because I remember doing exactly this back in the day. I guess the licensing laws have changed nowadays but this brings back fond memories. Or were they fond? Yeah, probably - the folly of youth...One of my favourite songwriters of all time the magnificent Ray Davies. This track from another of my "All Time Top Ten Americana Albums" (we can argue the details of that later)This reminds me of the joke: "I gave up drinking once. The worst twenty four hours of my life"Over to you...