drinking song

Examples of well-known drinking songs are Barrett's Privateers and The Drinking Song by Moxy Fruvous, as well as You're Pretty When I'm Drunk and Home For a Rest.

(sung to "Doe, a Deer" from "The Sound of Music")

Dough, with which I buy my beer,
Ray, the guy I buy beer from,
Me, the guy I buy beer for,
Far, a long way to the store...
So, I'll have another beer!
La, la la la la la la!
Tea? No thanks, I think I'll have some beer,
But for that, I'll need more dough, dough, dough, dough... (repeat)

A song by or for drunk people, to be sung wile drunk, drinking, or thinking of drinking... Sometimes it is for merry-making like Mary McGregor or In Heaven There is no Beer, or for wallowing in like One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

Some, on the other hand, are just plain silly like the Philosopher's Drinking Song of Monty Python origin. Some are distincly Irish like The Night Pat Murphy Died, some are distinclty American like the Ramones song Somebody Put Something in my Drink.