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{{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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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 ''[[Hellblazer]]'' tends to sing the bawdy kind when pissed out of his mind.
* Haddock and the [[Tintin]] start singing a Belgian song after they get drunk off wine-fumes in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''.
== [[Fan
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150102081627/http://www.rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=33965 Rangers of the Caribbean]'' does this with the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' theme.
== [[Film]] ==
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* [[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] and Abe get drunk and sing Barry Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You" in ''Hellboy II: The Golden Army''.
* In ''[[Pinocchio]]'' Foulfellow sings a drunken version of "An Actor's Life For Me."
* ''[[Dumbo]]''{{'}}s "We're Gonna Hit the Big Boss For a Raise."
* ''[[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 ''[[Eurotrip]]'', the American protagonists accidentally stumble into a private bar for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIrXH-ITw4 burly, belligerent Manchester United fans.] After narrowly avoiding getting their asses kicked by singing an altered version of "My Baby Takes the Morning Train" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), the liquor starts flowing and the thugs join them in a rendition.
* 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 ''[[
* One ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel has Fitz waking up on a bench, trying to reconstruct what he did last night:
{{quote|The last thing he remembered was joining in a singsong with a group of drunken tourists at Il-Eruk’s Tavern. He’d sung the song about the turnip fish.}}
* In ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', when Gerald O'Hara is drunk, he sings a song called "Peg in a Low-Backed Car".
== [[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.
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** Both of which are probably also [[Bawdy Song]]s.
* In ''[[Lost]]'', after Desmond drinks some bottles of (expensive) wine, he starts singing "The Celtic Song".
* "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 ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' (minus Kryten), having been celebrating Rimmer's deathday, return to the ship singing "Show Me the Way to Go Home" while tracing three-dimensional esses in space. Later in the same episode, Rimmer sings "Someone to Watch Over Me" in a very plaintive manner. He then degenerates into high-pitched, tuneless humming.
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* 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.
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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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