Everything about Drinking Song totally explained
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 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.
Some drinking songs
Some common drinking songs include:
The spiritual "
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is used as a drinking song among many hash harriers and
rugby union 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.
"
Home For a Rest" by Canadian folk rock band
Spirit of the West is a popular drinking song in
Canada, often played before last call in Canadian bars. Stan Rogers' "
Barrett's Privateers" is also a common Canadian drinking song.
Drinking songs in other languages
Drinking songs are sometimes referred to by the German name
Trinklieder.
In Sweden, where they're 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.
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 for example lapsing into Finnish in a Swedish song, or having a "song" consist entirely of the word "
NOW!" followed by drinking.
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