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Adrinking song is a song that is sung before or duringalcohol consumption. Most drinking songs arefolk songs orcommercium songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music.

In Germany, drinking songs are calledTrinklieder.

In Sweden, where they are calleddryckesvisor, there are drinking songs associated withChristmas,Midsummer, and other celebrations. An example of such a song is "Helan går".

In Spain,Asturias, patria querida (the anthem ofAsturias) is usually depicted as a drinking song.^{[citation needed]}

In France, historical types of drinking songs areChanson pour boire andAir à boire.

• "99 Bottles of Beer"
• "Barnacle Bill the Sailor"
• "Barrett's Privateers"
• "The Barley Mow"
• "Beer, Beer, Beer"
• "California Drinking Song"
• "Drunken Sailor"
• "Engineers' Drinking Song"
• "Fathom the Bowl"
• "Friends in Low Places"
• "Good Ship Venus"
• "I Used to Work in Chicago"
• "If You're Happy and You Know It"
• "(I've Been Floating Down) The Old Green River"
• "Lanigan's Ball"
• "Limericks"
• "Little Brown Jug"
• "Seven Drunken Nights"
• "The Goddamned Dutch"
• "The S&M Man"
• "Walking Down Canal Street"
• "Whiskey in the Jar"
• "The Wild Rover"

• "Bevilo tutto" (Italian song)
• "Drobna drabnitsa" (Belarusian song)
• "Ein Heller und ein Batzen"
• "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder"
• "Helan Går" (Swedish)
• "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from "La Traviata" by "Giuseppe Verdi"

Franz Schubert wrote severallieder (art songs) known as "Trinklied":

• D 75, Cantata "Trinklied" ['Freunde, sammelt euch im Kreise'] for bass, men's choir and piano (1813)
• D 148 (Op. posth. 131, No. 2), Cantata "Trinklied" ['Brüder! unser Erdenwallen'] for tenor, men's choir and piano (1815)
• D 169, Chorus "Trinklied vor der Schlacht" ['Schlacht, du brichst an!'] for double unison choir and piano (1815)
• D 183, Cantata "Trinklied" ['Ihr Freunde und du gold’ner Wein'] for voice, unison choir and piano (1815)
• D 242, Trio "Trinklied im Winter" ['Das Glas gefüllt!'] for two tenors and bass (1815, 1st setting; D deest is the 2nd setting, with a different title)
• D 267, Quartet "Trinklied" ['Auf! Jeder sei nun froh und sorgenfrei!'] for two tenors, two basses and piano (1815)
• D 356, Quartet "Trinklied" ['Funkelnd im Becher so helle, so hold'] for two tenors, two basses and piano (1816, fragment)
• D 426, Trio "Trinklied (Herr Bacchus ist ein braver Mann)" ['Herr Bacchus ist ein braver Mann'] for two tenors and bass (1816, lost)
• D 427, Trio "Trinklied im Mai" ['Bekränzet die Tonnen'] for two tenors and bass (1816)
• D 847, Quartet "Trinklied aus dem 16. Jahrhundert" ['Edit Nonna, edit Clerus'] for two tenors and two basses (1825)
• D 888, Song "Trinklied" ['Bacchus, feister Fürst des Weins'] for voice and piano (1826)

• Brindisi
• Snapsvisa

Media related toDrinking songs at Wikimedia Commons

• Drinking Songs Sheet MusicArchived 2022-03-31 at theWayback Machine
• Lyrics, Music and MP3s for each drinking song
• Hash House Harrier songbook
• Hash House Harrier songbook links
• A Tankard Of Ale An Anthology 120 Of Drinking Songs, complete online book byTheodore Maynard circa 1919

• Cray, Ed.The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs (University of Illinois, 1992).
• Legman, Gershon.The Horn Book. (New York: University Press, 1964).
• Reuss, 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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