Drinking songs

cog_nate — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:30:46 -0800

Drinking Songs & Barroom-lore is an unbelievable collection of audio , textual and other materials related to "traditional drinking songs (many bawdy), toasts, recitations and other bar-room folklore." If that's not enough, check out ARRR!!!'s sea shanties and drinking songs and/or Barstool Mountain's Top 100 Drinking Songs. Still not enough? Well, OK. Collections of songs:
A select collection of English songs (Volume 2) (1783)
The stag's hornbook (1918)
A tankard of ale, an anthology of drinking songs (1919)
Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty (Google Books preview)

Texts about drinking songs:
'Beve, beve con me': An Operatic Brindisi-For and to Gian-Paolo Biasin (PDF)
Carven from the laurel tree; essays (p. 29 - 35)

Audio:
Banter/Drinking songs (Javier Trejo, MP3)
Drink Friends Drink (Unkindness of Ravens, OGG or MP3)
California Drinking Song (Cal Band, MOV)
Drinking Song (Bob Schneider, FLAC)
La canción de bebiendo (José Suarez, MP3)
El borracho celebra la Semana Santa (José Suarez, MP3)
Steven Taylor class on [Greek drinking] songs, July, 1987 (Steven Taylor, big MP3)

Sheet Music:
Down, down in the cellar
Sons of temperance
I'm all broke up to day!
Down deep within the cellar - Im tiefen keller sitz'ich hier
Little more cider
Drinking song, brindisi, in the opera Macbeth
The land we live in
Here's how
Trim the lamp, a favorite ballad
Here's a health to thee Tom Moore
Johnny Darling!
Brandy and water, ballad
Here's a health to thee Tom Breese
Catawba waltz
Beviamo, cheour favori d'Ernani
Libiamo ne lieti calici = Gaily thro' this life
We won't go home till morning, a favorite glee
Way-side flowers
La brindisi, drinking song from Lucrezia Borgia, with brilliant variations
A Drinking song
Drinking song - Le punch scintille, Girofle girofla
Drinking song - Trinklied
Drinking song
Drinking song
Drinking song
Here's to you, my sparkling wine (PDF)
I drink from my heart to you (PDF)
If e'er I be Lord God of all; Comic drinking song
Rolling home in the morning
Drinking song (PDF, pages 3-4)
The song of the cider (The flagon) (Goixian on), Basque drinking song (Canción humoristica)
The toast, a drinking song
All the boy's love Mary (PDF)
Down where the Wurzburger flows (PDF)
Good old German beer (PDF)
Hello Mr. Stein (PDF)
How do you like your oysters (PDF)
Here's to the nut brown ale
Mum's the word (PDF)
On the banks of the Rhine with a stein (PDF)
Schooners that pass in the night (PDF)
Song to the foaming stein (PDF)
Under the Anheuser Bush (PDF)
Burton Ale: a song

The Mayor of Bayswater, he had such a pretty daughter…

misteraitch — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:28:51 -0800

Immortalia: a website ‘dedicated to traditional bawdy songs, erotic toasts and other recitations.’ See, for example, the list of bawdy songbooks, variously in text and PDF formats, beginning with songs from a 1661 book of ‘Merry Drollery.’ Many songs are displayed alongside the appropriate sheet music, for example I Used To Work In Chicago and The Sexual Life of the Camel. There are numerous mp3s too, both samples and entire songs, many of which are field recordings by the site’s proprietor, John Mehlberg. Please note that the songs range from plain stupid to extremely offensive, that many pages have embedded audio, and that the site is confusingly-organised and may crash your browser. The site as a whole is NSFW.

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