Drinking song

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A drinking song is a song sung while drinking alcohol. Most drinking songs are 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.

In popular culture

Musical artist Homebrew Stew (Rich Stewart) wrote a magazine article in the November 2002 issue of Modern Drunkard titled "Rhythm and Booze: The Top 86 Drinking Songs".

Traditional drinking songs

English

• "99 Bottles of Beer"
• "Barnacle Bill the Sailor"
• "Barrett's Privateers"
• "The Barley Mow"
• "Beer, Beer, Beer"
• "California Drinking Song"
• "Drunken Sailor"
• "Engineers' Drinking Song"
• "Fathom the Bowl"
• "Friends in Low Places"
• "Good Ship Venus"
• "I Used to Work in Chicago"
• "If You're Happy and You Know It"
• "Lanigan's Ball"
• "Limericks"
• "Little Brown Jug"
• "Seven Drunken Nights"
• "The Goddamned Dutch"
• "The S&M Man"
• "Walking Down Canal Street"
• "Whiskey in the Jar"
• "The Wild Rover"

Other

• "Bevilo tutto" (Italian song)
• "Drobna drabnitsa" (Belarusian song)
• "Ein Heller und ein Batzen"
• "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder"
• "Helan Går" (Swedish)
• "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from "La Traviata" by "Giuseppe Verdi"

Lieder

Franz Schubert wrote several lieder (art songs) known as "Trinklied":

• D 75, Cantata "Trinklied" for bass, men's choir and piano (1813)
• D 148 (Op. posth. 131, No. 2), Cantata "Trinklied" for tenor, men's choir and piano (1815)
• D 169, Chorus "Trinklied vor der Schlacht" for double unison choir and piano (1815)
• D 183, Cantata "Trinklied" for voice, unison choir and piano (1815)
• D 242, Trio "Trinklied im Winter" for two tenors and bass (1815, 1st setting; D deest is the 2nd setting, with a different title)
• D 267, Quartet "Trinklied" for two tenors, two basses and piano (1815)
• D 356, Quartet "Trinklied" for two tenors, two basses and piano (1816, fragment)
• D 426, Trio "Trinklied (Herr Bacchus ist ein braver Mann)" for two tenors and bass (1816, lost)
• D 427, Trio "Trinklied im Mai" for two tenors and bass (1816)
• D 847, Quartet "Trinklied aus dem 16. Jahrhundert" for two tenors and two basses (1825)
• D 888, Song "Trinklied" for voice and piano (1826)

See also

• Brindisi
• Snapsvisa

References

External links

Media related to Drinking songs at Wikimedia Commons

• Drinking Songs Sheet Music Archived 2022-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
• Lyrics, Music and MP3s for each drinking song
• Hash House Harrier songbook
• Hash House Harrier songbook links
• A Tankard Of Ale An Anthology 120 Of Drinking Songs, complete online book by Theodore Maynard circa 1919

Notes

• Cray, Ed. The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs (University of Illinois, 1992).
• Legman, Gershon. The Horn Book. (New York: University Press, 1964).
• Reuss, Richard A. An Annotated Field Collection of Songs From the American College Student Oral Tradition (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Masters Thesis, 1965).