Drinking song

A drinking song is a song of end of meal which encourages the consumption of Vin, sometimes more largely of alcohol. The drinking songs are generally interpreted in group: for the meals of family, the banquets of Marriage, the festivals coeds…

Constitution of the songs

Even if it is difficult to establish a model common to all the drinking songs, those divide at least:

the presence of many explicit incentives to consumption;
of the passages designed to stop singing and drinking glass bottom-dryness;
the melodies are very varied, some not very elaborate, comprising only one or two musical sentences, a low amplitude, others being in polyphony (ex: the tourdion XVIieme century), or require a great vocal amplitude.

The musical style of the drinking song brings it much closer to the Bawdy song, and the latter can be a drinking song at the same time. It is noted however that the reciprocal one is false: the purpose of a drinking song is not to be grivoise.

Examples

Knights of the Roundtable, let us taste to see whether this wine is good…
Of Tri Yann (traditional song written by Gabriel Bataille): Pare, pares, pares, pares companion, empties to us this glass and will fill we it…
It is ours, it drank its glass like the others…
the 31 of August (" Let us drink a blow, drink two, with the health of in love, the health of the king de France, and m… for the king of England, which declared us the war…)
the " 51 I love you and I will drink of them barrels (and barrels) to roll me floor in all the gutters…
the Liégeois Have-bottom: Friends for singing the love well It is necessary to drink (for the third time) Friendly for singing well the love It is necessary to drink the night and the day * Let us drink a blow, my Serpette is lost, but the handle returned…

See too

Bawdy song

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