alcoholism

Well I fell into prison
At about a quarter to three
Where I found in my cell
A glass waitin' for me.
So I filled what was empty
And I pulled up a stool,
But he stood in the corner
The Ol' Devil wouldn't move.
He said you drink when you're lonely,
No I drink when I want.
He said you'll never be sober,
Sure why would I want that?
I only drink to be merry
But unfortunately...
I'm in the wrong prison cell
And the wrong company!

i just like the "sure why would i want that?" line - our hall had it's comittee election last week, and someone asked someone standing for social rep (they organise events in the hall to get people to know other people better) "what will you do for people who don't drink", to which one of this years reps replied "well, that's their problem". why does life here seem to revolve around alcohol? i mean - last night was a tuesday, affectionatly known as "boozebay tuesday" by many due to a certain pub offering all drinks for £1. the pub is packed to the broom. people que outside with the sole purpose of getting as drunk as they can!

-a disilusioned student

*rolls eyes*

At least one guy in my hall developed a serious drink problem in our 1st year at uni.
I guess he's now living in the gutter, or worse, a cabinet minister.
I honestly can't name a single person I knew at uni who did not drink.
Perhaps I might if was in lectures instead of watching daytime TV in the pub 😕

Originally posted by martin williams
At least one guy in my hall developed a serious drink problem in our 1st year at uni.
I guess he's now living in the gutter, or worse, a cabinet minister.
I honestly can't name a single person I knew at uni who did not drink.
Perhaps I might if was in lectures instead of watching daytime TV in the pub 😕

No one beats Shane MacGowan for drinking songs:

The Sick Bed of Cuchulain

Mccormack and richard tauber are singing by the bed
There’s a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There’s devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you’ll dream of foreign lands

When you p*ssed yourself in frankfurt and got syph down in cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in madrid
And you decked some f*cking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids
At the sick bed of cuchulainn we’ll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil’s in the chair

And in the euston tavern you screamed it was your shout
But they wouldn’t give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again
At the sick bed of cuchulainn we’ll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil’s in the chair

You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lousy drunken b*stards singing billy is in the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church

Now you’ll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they’ll take you from this dump you’re in and stick you in a box
Then they’ll take you to cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you’ll stick your head back out and shout we’ll have another round
At the graveside of cuchulainn we’ll kneel around and pray
And God is in his heaven, and billy’s down by the bay

EDIT: Finally got it to post - damned foul mouthed MacGowan
😠

Originally posted by Varg
No one beats Shane MacGowan for drinking songs:

The Sick Bed of Cuchulain

Mccormack and richard tauber are singing by the bed
There’s a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There’s devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you’ll dream of foreign lands

When you p*ssed yourself in ...[text shortened]... and billy’s down by the bay

EDIT: Finally got it to post - damned foul mouthed MacGowan
😠

yeah very poetic.

Just remember...alcoholics go to meetings. Everybody else just drinks.

🙂

Originally posted by Redmike
foulmouthed but genius