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Drinking Song
A drinking song is a song that is sung before or during Alcoholic beverage, alcohol consumption. Most drinking songs are Folk music, folk songs or commercium songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music. In Germany, drinking songs are called ''Trinklieder''. In Sweden, where they are called ''dryckesvisor'', there are drinking songs associated with Christmas, Midsummer, and other celebrations. An example of such a song is "Helan går". In Spain, Asturias, patria querida (the anthem of Asturias) is usually depicted as a drinking song. In France, historical types of drinking songs are Chanson pour boire and Air à boire. Traditional drinking songs English * "99 Bottles of Beer" * "Barnacle Bill (song), Barnacle Bill the Sailor" * "Barrett's Privateers" * "The Barley Mow" * "Charlie Mopps, Beer, Beer, Beer" * "California Drinking Song" * "Drunken Sailor" * "Engineers' Drinking Song" * "Fathom the Bowl" * "Friends in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Student Prince
''The Student Prince'' is an operetta in a prologue and four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play ''Old Heidelberg (play), Old Heidelberg''. The piece has a score with some of Romberg's most enduring and beautiful tunes, including "Golden Days", "Drinking Song", "Deep in My Heart, Dear", "Just We Two" and Serenade (song from The Student Prince), "Serenade" ("Overhead the moon is beaming"). The plot has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works. Performance history It opened on December 2, 1924, at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on Broadway theatre, Broadway and became the most successful of Romberg's works, running for 608 performances. It was staged by J. C. Huffman and was the longest-running Broadway show of the 1920s. Even the classic ''Show Boat'', the most enduring musical of the 1920s, did not play as long – it ran for 572 performances. "Dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Drinking Song
"California Drinking Song" is a spirit song from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t .... The first appearances of this song are traced to 1939. Both the UC Men's Octet and the University of California Marching Band perform it as part of their repertoire. It is a blend of other songs, including " The Goddamned Dutch". "The core element of “California Drinking Song” is “Rambled,” otherwise known as “California.” The tune is based on the song “ Oh, Didn’t He Ramble,” by Cole and Johnson (copyright 1906). The words were changed to what we know as “For California, for California, The hills send back the cry, We’re out to do or die,” and first appeared in printed form in 1906." ..."Titled “One More Drink for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goddamned Dutch
"One More Drink for the Four of Us" (aka "Glorious" or "Drunk Last Night") is a traditional drinking and marching song. It became popular during the First World War, and has been widely repurposed for other marches, college bands, and social clubs. It is referenced in ''Ulysses'' and ''Finnegans Wake''. The song talks about a family of drinkers, whose name is sometimes modified to refer to the group that is singing it. Other lines are sometimes added at the beginning or the end. History The origins of the song are uncertain. It was popular during the First World War, and noted by Ralph Barton Perry as a popular marching song in ''Impressions of a Plattsburg Recruit'' from '' The New Republic'' in 1915. It is referenced in military stories from that time, such as William Brown's ''Adventures of an American Doughboy'' (1919). James Joyce referred to it in ''Ulysses'' (1918-1920). "One More Drink" appeared in the song anthology '' Immortalia'', published in 1927. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Drunken Nights
"Seven Drunken Nights" is a humorous Irish folk song most famously performed by The Dubliners. It is a variation of the English/Scottish folk song " Our Goodman" ( Child 274, Roud 114). It tells the story of a gullible drunkard returning night after night to see new evidence of his wife's lover, only to be taken in by increasingly implausible explanations. History "Our Goodman" was collected in Scotland in the 1770s. Another version was found in a London broadside of the 1760s entitled "The Merry Cuckold and the Kind Wife". The broadside was translated into German, and spread into Hungary and Scandinavia. Unusually for such a popular and widespread song, it appears in only a few nineteenth century broadsides. In the version known as "Seven Nights Drunk", each night is a verse, followed by a chorus, in which the narrator comes home in a drunken state to find evidence of another man having been with his wife, which she explains away, not entirely convincingly. The song also b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Brown Jug (song)
"Little Brown Jug" is a song written in 1869 by Joseph Eastburn Winner, originally published in Philadelphia with the author listed as Winner's middle name "Eastburn". Background It was originally a drinking song. It remained well known as a folk song Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ... into the early 20th century. Like many songs which make reference to alcohol, it enjoyed new popularity during the Prohibition era. 1939 Glenn Miller recording In 1939, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released a hit version of the song on RCA Bluebird, as an A side 78 single, B-10286-A, in a new arrangement by Bill Finegan backed with "Pavanne". The recording was an early chart hit for Glenn Miller. The song was performed in Glenn Miller's Carnegie Hall concert that year and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limerick (song)
"Limerick" is a traditional humorous drinking song with many obscene verses. The tune usually used for sung limericks is traditionally " Cielito Lindo," with the words arranged in the form of a limerick. Recorded versions * The Limerick Song has been commercially recorded many times. The earliest version of limericks being sung is 1905 under the title Fol-The-Rol-Lol as sung by Edward M. Favor on Edison records. The earliest date for limericks being sung to the "Gay Caballero" tune is May 11, 1931 on the recording titled Rhymes sung by Jack Hylton which was issued on Decca records. Printed versions The earliest printed date for limericks being sung is 1928 in the book ''A Collection of Sea Songs and Ditties from the Stores of Tom E. Jones''.Jones. Unpaginated. Song #48. Since many of the verses used for this song are bawdy the song tended to get issued in rare, underground mimeographed songbooks. Some of these are (in chronological order): :* 1934. Leech. Variant choru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanigan's Ball
"Lanigan's Ball" (sometimes "Lannigan's Ball") is a popular Irish folk song which has been played throughout the world since at least the 1860s and possibly much longer. Typically performed in a minor key, it generally is played in an upbeat style reminiscent of the party atmosphere in which the story that the lyrics portray unfolds. In Alfred Perceval Graves' book, ''Songs of Irish Wit and Humour'', published in 1884, "Lanigan's Ball" is attributed to . In '' Folk Songs of the Catskills'', edited by Norman Cazden, Herbert Haufrecht and Norman Studer, there is a reference to John Diprose's songster of 1865 attributing "Lanigan's Ball" to D. K. Gavan with music by John Candy. It also mentions that the tune was previously known as "Hurry the Jug". In 1863 William Pond & Company published the song in an arrangement by Charles William Glover, attributing the words to Tony Pastor and the music to Neil Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels. Origin and subject "Lanigan's Ball", a tune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River
"I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River" is a 1915 song with words by Bert Kalmar and music by Joe Cooper. Background The song is sung from the point of view of a husband who has to explain to his wife why he stayed out until 4:30 in the morning. He states that he has been floating down the old Green River on the good ship "Rock and Rye", where he got "stuck on a bar". The tag line in the lyric is: :''I had to drink the whole Green River dry'' :''To get back home to you.'' The song is a play on words, as ''Green River'' was a popular brand of whiskey at the time. Cover versions The popular vocalist Billy Murray (singer), Billy Murray recorded the song on March 11, 1915 for Victor Records (catalog No. 17885B). His rendition was Sampling (music), sampled in the 2024 hip-hop song "Otonoke" by Japanese duo Creepy Nuts as the opening theme song for the anime ''Dandadan''. Russ Morgan and His Orchestra recorded the song for Decca Records (catalog No. 24834) in 1949. Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If You're Happy And You Know It
"If You're Happy and You Know It" is a popular traditional repetitive children's song, folksong, and drinking song. The song has been noted for its similarities to "Molodejnaya", a song appearing in the 1938 Soviet musical film '' Volga-Volga''. History The origin of the melody is not known, but numerous sources trace it back to Spain, Latin America, Latvia or the United States of America. The song was published in various places through the decades following the late 1960s, including a volume of "constructive recreational activities" for children (1957), a book of drama projects for disabled children (1967), and a nursing home manual (1966). In 1971, Jonico Music filed for copyright on the song, crediting it to Joe Raposo. During the early part of the 2000s, the music Recording Industry Association of America sued individuals for downloading music using file-sharing services. Widespread media attention was paid to one 12-year-old, whose downloads included "If You're Happy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Used To Work In Chicago
"I Used to Work in Chicago" ( Roud 4837) is a drinking song. It was written by songwriter and entertainer Larry Vincent. The earliest printed date for the song is March 1945 in the underground mimeographed songbook '' Songs of the Century'', however versions of the song circulated "on the street" as early as 1938 according to the Digital Tradition Folk Music Database. Many of the lyrics are considered humorous because of the oblique sexual references. The song is often chanted by various British university sports teams. After World War II, there were various versions of this song commercially recorded (e.g. by Spike Jones). A verse from Spike Jones's version: Recordings * The Three Bits Of Rhythm on Modern Records 118A from 1946 * Oscar Brand on ''Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads'' 1951 * Merle Travis on ''Guitar Rags & A Too Fast Past'' 1994 * Benny Bell on ''Shaving Cream'' 1975, Track Title: ''Jack of All Trades'' Popular culture *A variation of this song is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Ship Venus
"Good Ship Venus", also known as "Friggin' in the Riggin", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moralled crew. The tune usually used (especially for the chorus) is " Go In and Out the Window". Lyrics The opening verse is typically something along the lines of: However, the lyrics exist in numerous variations. For example, the last line varies, being substituted with any of a large variety of phrases such as 'Our crest a rampant penis', 'With a mouth full of dead man's penis', or 'Sucking on a red-hot penis'. The usual rhyming structure for this song is the limerick AABBA structure. A few other verses: The Captain's wife was Mabel She was ready, willing and able On the floor, behind the door Or under the kitchen table. The first mate's name was Carter By gad he was a farter! When the wind wouldn't blow And the ship wouldn't go They'd get Carter the farter to start her. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends In Low Places
"Friends in Low Places" is a song recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on August 6, 1990, as the lead single from his album '' No Fences''. The song spent four weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs, and won both the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association awards for 1990 Single of the Year. "Friends in Low Places" was written in 1989 by songwriters Earl Bud Lee and Dewayne Blackwell and first released by David Wayne Chamberlain in 1989. The two songwriters had given the song to Brooks to record as a demo soon before the release of his self-titled first album, when he was a relatively unknown singer. Enamored with the song, Brooks recorded his version the next year. Mark Chesnutt recorded the song for his second album '' Too Cold at Home''. Writing According to Earl Bud Lee, one of the song's co-writers, the idea of the song was born when he and some songwriting friends gathered for lunch one day at Tavern on the Row, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
