Comments on: Five-Star Fridays: Songs About Drinking

By: OGRe

OGRe — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:29:50 +0000

I’d put Piano has been Drinking at #2.

#1 would be Bad Liver and a Broken Heart.

Both are off of Small Change, which I think ups the ante on inebriation over either Closing Time or Saturday Night. In addition to those two theres I wish I was in New Orleans, Tom Traubert’s Blues, and Pasties and a G-String.

By: AlgerHiss

AlgerHiss — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:20:17 +0000

From George Jones:

The bars are all closed, it’s four in the morning…
I must have shut em’ all done, by the shape that I’m in….
I lay my head on the wheel, and the horn begins honk’n…
The whole neighborhood knows, that I’m home drunk again

And if drinkin’ don’t kill me, her memory will.

By: derfel cadarn

derfel cadarn — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:58:46 +0000

What can be said after that. If you are ever needing to get a drunk on there is no one better than Waits. I don’t live this lifestyle but he is still my hero.

By: ClubMedSux

ClubMedSux — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:56:33 +0000

My vote for favorite Tom Waits drinking song is “The Piano Has Been Drinking.”