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A drinking song is a song sung while drinking, that is, consuming alcohol. Some drinking songs are about drink, but many are not. Groups which still have a drinking song tradition include rugby players, hash house harriers, air force fighter pilots and fraternities. Most of drinking songs are folksongs and show variation from person to person and region to region in both the words and in the tunes used for the song. Functional group of an alcohol molecule. ...
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The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words and , meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, Optimist International, or the Shriners. ...
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Some drinking songs
Common drinking songs include Limericks, The Lady in Red, Barnacle Bill the Sailor, I Used to Work in Chicago, Walking Down Canal Street, Bestiality's Best, The Goddamned Dutch, In Mobile, The S&M Man, Seven Drunken Nights and My Name is Jack. The Star Spangled Banner's tune is the same as an old English drinking song (To Anacreon in Heaven). A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict meter, popularized by Edward Lear. ...
Barnacle Bill (released in the U.S. as All at Sea) is a 1957 comedy, starring Alec Guinness, playing an unsuccessful navy man as well as six of his maritime ancestors. ...
I Used to Work in Chicago is a humorous traditional drinking song. ...
Walking Down Canal Street is an obscene old drinking song from Roaring Twenties New York. ...
Bestialitys Best is a drinking song for which verses can be easily improvised, and is very commonly sung in Australia. ...
The Goddamned Dutch (aka The Souse Family or Drunk Last Night) is a traditional drinking song found among Hash House Harriers, Rugby players and fraternities. ...
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Seven Drunken Nights is a humorous traditional Irish song, most famously performed by The Dubliners. ...
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The Anacreontic Song was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, a club of amateur musicians in London who gathered regularly to perform concerts. ...
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. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a United States spiritual folk song. ...
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Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of beer or other alcoholic beverages. ...
Drinking songs in other languages Drinking songs are sometimes referred to by the German name Trinklied.
In Sweden, where they are called Dryckesvisor, traditions are upheld to an unusual degree in modern European context. There are songs associated with christmas, Midsummer, and other celebrations sometimes unique to Sweden. One very often 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. Midsummer may refer to the period of time centered upon the summer solstice and the diverse celebrations of it around the world, but more often refers to European celebrations that accompany the summer solstice, or to Western festivals that take place in June and are usually related to Saint John...
Carl Michael Bellman (February 4, 1740 - February 11, 1795) was a Swedish poet and composer. ...
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. Sitsit is a traditional academic student feast organised in some universities in Finland, particularly in Ã…bo Akademi, University of Turku, Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki University. ...
See also Rugby Songs are drinking songs sung by rugby players after the game at the after-party (aka The Third Half). As with most drinking songs, there is a high percentage of rude or bawdy songs sung by rugby players. ...
The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the U.S.A., with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. ...
External links
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).
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