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{{trope}}
{{quote|Some songs are never sung sober. On Earth ''Nellie Dean'' is one such. On [[Discworld]] the favourite is ''A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End''.
|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]'''}}
A simple way to indicate that a person is drunk is to have them sing a drunken song. It may be [[Bawdy Song|bawdy]] or [[Tear Jerker|weepily sentimental]], but it indicates inebriation even before you notice the slurred phrasing and lurching walk.
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This was such a recurring trope in old British comedies that anyone who was drunk sang ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyKglXOymmc Nellie Dean]'' and anyone singing ''Nellie Dean'' was drunk. It was useful cultural shorthand in the days before you could show a grown man pissing or puking in public.
See [[Ode to Intoxication]] for songs about getting drunk. Unrelated to [[Wasted Song]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In an old ''[[Punch]]'' cartoon, the natives of a pacific Island hear the strains of ''Nellie Dean'' echoing from the crater of the local volcano and comment, "The gods are drunk again".
* Constantine from ''[[
* Haddock and the [[Tintin
== [[Fan
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150102081627/http://www.rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=33965 Rangers of the Caribbean]'' does this with the ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Jaws (
* [[Hellboy (
* In ''[[Pinocchio]]'' Foulfellow sings a drunken version of "An Actor's Life For Me."
* ''[[
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' -- "A Pirate's Life For Me"
** ...and really bad eggs!
* Gaston's [[Villain Song]] from ''[[Beauty and
* Many Ealing comedies and similar, for example in ''The Bargee'', Harry H Corbett is able to get out of his girlfriend's bed before her large, violent father gets home from the pub because he's singing ''Nellie Dean'' loudly.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', where one mouse calls another mouse a "rat" during a song.
* In ''[[Animal House]]'' Delta Tau Chi sings "Louie Louie" completely unintelligibly.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** The full title of "the hedgehog song" is ''The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All''. That should give you an idea ''[[But You Screw One Goat!|why]]'' it is never sung while sober.
* Male characters in the ''[[Belgariad]]'' '''never''' sing while sober. We're never told what exactly they're singing, but it tends to scare off any birds in the vicinity.
* Hagrid and Professor Slughorn in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (
* One ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel has Fitz waking up on a bench, trying to reconstruct what he did last night:
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* In ''[[Gone
== [[Live
* Happens several times in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', e.g. Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir singing "Jerusalem", or Worf singing Yet Another Klingon Battle Song with Miles or some grizzled Klingon veteran he's trying to cozy up to.
** All the Klingon songs are either opera or this. Both types are spectacularly [[Blood Knight|gory]].
*** A TNG episode had Picard and his older brother get drunk and sing after they have a big fist fight.
* "[[
** Both of which are probably also [[Bawdy Song
* In ''[[
* "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," the song
* A game is made out of this on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Garabaldi sings "Show Me The Way To Go Home" on one occasion when drunk.
* The crew of ''[[
* One episode of ''[[Black Books]]'' has Bernard visit some friends and singing a very [[Stylistic Suck|Irish]] drinking song to their young son. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14iipXu5wA0 outtakes] reveal that not only did Dylan Moran improvise it, he improvised a whole bunch of them.
== [[Music]] ==
* "Fuck you I'm Drunk" by [[Bondo]]<ref>[[Misattributed Song|Bondo is ''not'']] [[Flogging Molly]]</ref>
* Brutally, heartbreakingly subverted by Richard Thompson's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-noSz2XsIY "God Loves A Drunk."]
* Pretty much anything by The Pogues, but most particularly "A Pair of Brown Eyes".
** "The Wild Rover" is an older song performed by the Pogues among many others. Interestingly it started as a Temperance song.
*** Their celtic-rock brethern in general fall in this trope, particularly Dropkick Murphy's "Shipping Up to Boston" and [[Flogging Molly
**** The Dropkick Murphys also have the aptly titled "Kiss me, I'm Shitfaced"
** If you want more folk, "The Ramblin' Rover" by Silly Wizard probably should never be sung sober.
** The band [https://web.archive.org/web/20100529034845/http://gaelicstorm.musiccitynetworks.com/ Gaelic Storm] is taking the drinking song tradition to a new generation.
* "Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors".
* [[Tom Waits]]'
* The Irish folk song "Seven Drunken Nights", most famously performed by the Dubliners. Gets very [[Bawdy Song|bawdy]] at the end...
* Done in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514111845/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/andrew-vs-the-wilderness/ this] [[Songs to Wear Pants To]] song where the instructions were to "[Not] sing the lyrics. Shout them out in a drunken sort of way."
* The [[Dead Kennedys]] "Too Drunk To Fuck". [[Nouvelle Vague]]'s cover took this to the next level: the lead singer actually sounded like she was hammered when they recorded it.
* [[Damien Rice]]'s "Cheers, Darlin'" is a perfect example of this trope. Rice often makes a show of drinking while performing this song live.
* [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]]'s solo song "Drink or Die." Also taken to the next level in that he was likely drunk most of the time he performed it, and sort of a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] in that alcohol would later be a part of why he did actually die.
* "[[Something Blues|Roadhouse Blues]]" by [[The Doors]]. In true blues fashion, Jim Morrison was totally smashed when he recorded it.
** "Five to One" might also count, if only because Morrison was plastered when he sang/shouted that, too.
*** When was Morrison not plastered?
* During the intro track for [[Running Wild (
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAU4B4Fmhkg Cold Gin]" by [[Kiss]].
* A lot of [[Steely Dan]] songs mention some kind of alcoholic beverage, or sound like they're either from the point of view of a morose drunk or about the results of a bender.
* [[Bob Dylan]] has a few, although the most obvious is "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues": it has a kind of drunken vibe from the very beginning, but the final verse confirms it:
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But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I'm going back to New York City
I do believe I've had enough. }}
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Robin Williams]] improvised one of these. "Oh... that night you said my wife was fat, I knocked ya down, and shit in yer hat..."
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* "The Same Old Music" from ''Vanities''.
* "If I Were a Bell" from ''[[Guys and Dolls]]''.
* "Hot Lover" from the musical version of ''[[
* "Let's Toast" from the musical version of ''[[The Prince and
* "Oom-Pah-Pah" from ''[[Oliver!
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[
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But we throw them to the wolves unless they look like Priapus." [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/playwright-laureate/\] }}
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