Why do you drink? [to get drunk]
Sep. 13th, 2006 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksI shared a little TMI with some colleagues at happy hour this evening, I think. Nothing truly embarrassing or humiliating, just a little revealing. While having drinks with some work friends, an old Hank Williams Jr. song came on the sound system -- Family Tradition. Now, in college and after, I used to hang out at this country bar. (Well, in one half of the bar it was country; but the other dance floor was dance/pop/whatever.) And there were certain songs that the patrons sang along to, Family Tradition being one of them. Especially the chorus, to which phrases were added.
Of course, the later in the evening it got, the more likely it was that "laid" was not the verb that would be shouted out.
So the song comes over the sound system tonight, and I start humming along, then sing the chorus. Uh, no one at the table had heard that version before, not even the people who knew the song. News to me. I figured it was like the whole Margaritaville thing (you know, "Salt! Salt! Salt!" Am I revealing too much about my college years? Is that also not a common thing?), and everyone did it. Apparently not.
So don't ask me, Hank,
Why do you drink? [to get drunk]
Why do you roll smoke? [to get stoned]
Why must you live out those songs that you wrote? [to get laid]
Of course, the later in the evening it got, the more likely it was that "laid" was not the verb that would be shouted out.
So the song comes over the sound system tonight, and I start humming along, then sing the chorus. Uh, no one at the table had heard that version before, not even the people who knew the song. News to me. I figured it was like the whole Margaritaville thing (you know, "Salt! Salt! Salt!" Am I revealing too much about my college years? Is that also not a common thing?), and everyone did it. Apparently not.
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Date: 2006-09-14 09:41 am (UTC)Our song was Mony, Mony by Billy Idol - I think it was at the end of the first two lines that people would yell 'get laid, get f*cked!'. Yeah, they were enthusiastic and not original.
CindyS
Margaritaville
Date: 2006-09-14 11:33 am (UTC)The "salt" thing could just be a peculiarity of the Parrotheads I lived with. I liked Buffett, but they were rabid FANS.
TMI
Date: 2006-09-15 08:21 pm (UTC)TMI (Again)
Date: 2006-09-15 08:22 pm (UTC)Devonna