Drinking song
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A drinking song is a song sung while drinking, that is, consuming alcohol. Some drinking songs are about drink, but some are not. Groups which currently still have a drinking song tradition include rugby players, hash house harriers, air force fighter pilots and fraternities. Many of the drinking songs are undocumented because of the bawdy nature of the material, though the Hash House Harriers are known to have a large number of these songs kept in a record called the "Hash House Hymnal". Most of the songs are folksongs and show variation from person to person and region to region in both the lyrics and in the tune used for the lyrics.
Drinking songs are sometimes referred to by the German name Trinklied.
In Sweden there is a tradition of singing drinking songs at christmas, Midsummer and other occasions that are celebrated. One of the most commonly sung is "Helan går".
Some Drinking Songs
Common drinking songs include The Lady in Red, Barnacle Bill the Sailor, I Used to Work in Chicago, Walking Down Canal Street, Bestiality's Best Boys, The Goddamned Dutch, In Mobile, The S&M Man, Seven Drunken Nights and My Name is Jack.
The spiritual "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" is used as a drinking song among many hash harriers and rugby 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.
External links
- Lyrics, Music and MP3s for each drinking song
- Hash House Harrier songbook
- Hash House Harrier songbook links
- More Drinking songs from www.ilikenakedwomen.com
References
- Cray, Ed. The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs (University of Illinois, 1992).
- Legman, Gershon. The Horn Book. (New York: University Press, 1964).
- Reus, Richard A. An Annotated Field Collection of Songs From the American College Student Oral Tradition (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Masters Thesis, 1965).
