I'm compiling an episode of the Pub Songs Podcast. The feature is on funny Irish drinking songs. There are a ton of great Irish drinking songs out there, but some of the best or at least most-popular are the funny ones.
There are some fun songs like “Seven Drunken Nights“, “Wild Rover“, and “Finnegan's Wake“. Those capture my attention. But what about the more elusive? Or the more popular that I forget…
What are your favorite funny Irish drinking songs?
I'll post a link to the show when it goes online.
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- St. Patrick Never Drank
- What Shall You Do With a Catnipped Kitty
- Excursion Around the Bay (The Dreg's version)
- God Hates a Whiskey Waster
Lily the Pink!
I’ve never been able to figure out what makes a song a drinking song. Is it about drinking, about what you drink or just heard where drinking is happening. If it is the latter, one of my favorites is by Mike Barrett called “Monkey Farts”. You can hear it performed by Seamus Kennedy here, http://www.myspace.com/seamuskennedy/music/songs/monkey-farts-69701887 , or of course, at my gigs. Brilliant writing.
Well I am only gonna list some PG songs
I have always liked:
The Night That Paddy Murphy Died
The Ole’ Dunn Cow
Johnny Jump Up
Seven Drunken Nights you listed already…
Tim Finnegan’s Wake is another funny one
Hey Terry,
I look at the term Irish Drinking Song from a marketing perspective. And from that, it has nothing to do with drinking. It’s just Irish songs, mostly those that you might be able to sing-along with, but not exclusively.
For some reason I’ve always liked ” Seven Drunken Nights “…I mean it rolls on and on but it’s just the thought of some guy going through that with his wife…lol
One of my mother’s all-time favorites – “The Night that Paddy Murphy Died”
My mother passed away in August of 2010. One of the first songs I ever remember her singing to me that shaped what turned into the “Tudor Tarts”, was “The Night that Paddy Murphy Died”. “Oh the night that Paddy Murphy died, I never will forget – the Irish all got stinking drunk and some ain’t sober yet. Oh the one thing that they did that night that fills my heart with fear – they took the ice right off the corpse and put it on the beer…”