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"
  • " The Old Green River"
  • "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"
  • "Drobna drabnitsa"
  • "Ein Heller und ein Batzen"
  • "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder"
  • "Helan går"
  • "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from Giuseppe Verdi's ''La Traviata''

    Lieder

wrote several lieder known as "Trinklied":
  • 75, Cantata "Trinklied" for bass, men's choir and piano
  • D 148, Cantata "Trinklied" for tenor, men's choir and piano
  • D 169, Chorus "Trinklied vor der Schlacht" for double unison choir and piano
  • D 183, Cantata "Trinklied" for voice, unison choir and piano
  • D 242, Trio "Trinklied im Winter" for two tenors and bass
  • D 267, Quartet "Trinklied" for two tenors, two basses and piano
  • D 356, Quartet "Trinklied" for two tenors, two basses and piano
  • D 426, Trio "Trinklied " for two tenors and bass
  • D 427, Trio "Trinklied im Mai" for two tenors and bass
  • D 847, Quartet "Trinklied aus dem 16. Jahrhundert" for two tenors and two basses
  • D 888, Song "Trinklied" for voice and piano