* D R I N K I N G *

MAY

2006

Ain't Got no Money to Pay for this Drink — George Zimmerman and the Thrills - (194?)

Wine, Wine, Wine — The Electric Flag - (1967)

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' — Loretta Lynn - (1966)

Daddy and the Wine — Porter Wagoner & The Wagonmasters - (1968)

I Drink — Mary Gauthier - (2005)

I Drink — Charles Aznavour - (1995)

Sloppy Drunk — Jimmy Rogers - (1973)

I Ain't Drunk — Lonnnie The Cat - (1954)

It Ain't Far to the Bar — Johny Tyler and His Riders of the Rio Grande - (194?)

What's On The Bar - Hank Williams Jr/Bocephus - (2003)

One Mint Julep - The Clovers - (1952)

Rum and Coca Cola — The Andrew Sisters - (1945)

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer — John Lee Hooker - (1966)

Who Will Buy the Wine — Charlie Walker - (1960)

Buddy Stay Off That Wine — Betty Hall Jones - (1949)

Whiskey You're the Devil — Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - (1962)

These sixteen tracks were presented during the third episode of

the "Theme Time Radio Hour", with the topic "Drinking".

One of the tracks, sung by Porter Wagoner,'Daddy and the Wine',

the lyrics of which you find below, was prefaced by Bob Dylan saying:

"Alcohol will kill anything that's alive,

and preserve anything that's dead.".

Daddy and the Wine
Porter Wagoner & The Wagonmasters

A child walked in a candy store in faded overalls

Put a nickel on the counter said I think I'll spend it all

I've carried it three months or more you can tell it by the shine

Now I need a sack of candy like my daddy needs his wine

Daddy and the wine goes back three years out of my eight

In the old days we were happy dad worked hours long and late

Then mama disappeared one day and so did daddy's mind

And now it's me and daddy mostly daddy and the wine

The child picked up the sack and then he wandered on outside

We put a roll of green among the jelly beens inside

The clerk was broke and so was I we gave him our last dime

A stranger stole his mommy now his daddy's on the wine

Daddy and the wine goes back three years out of my eight

In the old days we were happy dad worked hours long and late

Then mama disappeared one day and so did daddy's mind

And now it's me and daddy mostly daddy and the wine