Top Drinking Song – Best Bar Songs
A drinking song is a song sung while drinking alcohol. Most drinking songs are folk songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music. Some groups that have a tradition of singing drinking songs include rugby players, Hash House Harriers, air force fighter pilots, and fraternities.
The Star-Spangled Banner’s tune is the same as an English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called “To Anacreon in Heaven”. The spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is used as a drinking song by members of the Hash House Harriers and rugby union players, with obscene gestures associated with the lyrics. This song is heightened to a drinking game by air force fighter pilots. The first person to fail to correctly make the gestures has to buy the next round of drinks.
Popular Canadian drinking songs include Stan Rogers’ “Barrett’s Privateers”, Great Big Sea’s “The Night Pat Murphy Died” and The Rankin Family’s “The Mull River Shuffle”. There are several French-Canadian drinking songs (Prends un verre de bière, mon minou, Chevaliers de la table ronde), some of which have even been recorded as singles by folk singers but the most well known is just chanting “Igloo! Igloo! Igloo!” (from “glou-glou”, the sound someone makes while drinking) as someone chugs a beer or two just as “Drink! Drink! Drink! is chanted in English-speaking cultures.
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A German song interpreted by an Italian Brass combo.
In Germany, drinking top songs are called Trinklieder. In Sweden, where they are called Dryckesvisor, traditions are upheld to an unusual degree in modern European context. There are drinking songs associated with Christmas, Midsummer, and other celebrations sometimes unique to Sweden. One commonly sung is “Helan går”. Although singing songs from Fredmans Epistlar is less usual, Carl Michael Bellman’s influence on the Swedish customary preoccupation with the drinking song is considerable. Drinking songs are an integral part of Finnish student culture, in no small part because of Swedish influence on sitsit. Local songs can be either in Finnish or in Swedish, and either played straight or self-subverting, by e.g. lapsing into Finnish in a Swedish song, or having a song consist entirely of the word Now! followed by drinking. In Spain, Asturias, patria querida (the anthem of Asturias) is usually depicted as a drinking song. Source Wikipedia
Top Drinking Song
“Barnacle Bill the Sailor”
“Barrett’s Privateers”
“Beer, Beer, Beer”
“California Drinking Song”
“The Engineers’ Drinking Song”
“Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder”
“Fathom the Bowl”
“Home for a Rest” by Spirit of the West
“I Used to Work in Chicago”
“Jesus Can’t Play Rugby”
“Lanigan’s Ball”
“Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” from “La Traviata” by “Giuseppe Verdi”
“Limericks”
“Seven Drunken Nights”
“The Fields of Athenry”
“The Goddamned Dutch”
“The S&M Man”
“Walking Down Canal Street”
“Whiskey in the Jar”
“Token Celtic Drinking Song” by Jimmy George
“Streams of Whiskey” by The Pogues
“Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” by Jerry Lee Lewis
“Water and Wine” by The Kingmakers
Top Bar Songs 2011 Playlist for DJ’s
1 Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
2 Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond (great bar song for all ages)
3 American Pie – Don MacLean
4 Whiskey in the Jar – The Dubliners
5 Piano Man – Billy Joel
6 Dixieland Delight – Alabama
7 Tommy Tutone – 867 5309 (Jenny)
8 Outfield – Your Love
9 Its My Life – Bon Jovi
10 Mr. Mister – Kyrie
11 Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
12 Primal Scream – Rocks
13 The Zutons – Valerie
14 Aerosmith – Walk this way
15 Black Crows – Hard to handle
16 Chilli Peppers – Give it away or Californication
17 Fun Loving Criminals – Scooby Snacks
18 Hotel California – The Eagles
19 Sweet Child O Mine – Guns N Roses
20 Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding
21 Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
22 Song 2 – Blur
23 Roxanne – The Police
24 Take This Job And Shove It – Johnny Paycheck
25 It’s The End Of The World – R.E.M.2
26 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
27 Jamming – Bob Marley
28 You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
29 Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard
30 Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw – Jimmy Buffett
31 One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – George Thorogood
32 Fight For Your Right – Beastie Boys
33 Mony Mony – Billy Idol
34 Red Red Wine – UB40
35 We Will Rock You – Queen
36 I Love Rock N’ Roll – Joan Jett
37 Journey – Don’t Stop Believing
38 Hot In Herre – Nelly
39 Paradise By The Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf
40 Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
It is not уеt the end of the year and уеt the list of top bar songs of 2011 and popular drinking song 2011 seems inexhaustible I аm sure by the end of the year the list will сеrtаіnƖу look different.
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