Drinking song
A drinking song is a song that is sung before or during alcohol consumption. 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 or snapsvisor, 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" 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 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]"
- "(I've Been Floating Down) The Old Green River"
- "Lanigan's Ball"
- "Limericks"
- "Little [Brown Jug (song)|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"
- "Drobna drabnitsa"
- "Ein Heller und ein Batzen"
- "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder"
- "Helan går"
- "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from Giuseppe Verdi's ''La Traviata''