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Beer, Beer, Beer and Songs About Redheads. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day! We’re celebrating with some international drinking songs and games. Sara quizzes Kristina on modern songs about redheads or booze. Kristina brings old school drinking songs and more!
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Meet Sarah and Christina of Laughing with Gingerz
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This is our podcast song. It isn't very long. Hi, Sarah.
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Hi, thanks everyone for tuning in to Laughing with Gingerz. The podcast for two feisty redheads with loud, loud, shared, crazy story, play games, and spread silliness and joy. That very sober voice over there is my partner in crime on the Laughing with Gingerz podcast, Christina Curry. Are you drunk, my co-host of Laughing with Gingerz, Sarah Elephant?
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We have not, but we are talking about drinking today. We are. That's true. Good call. We have been chatting for an hour, so it would have been shocking if I was drunk. I was like, I don't remember you drinking, but you're calling out my sobriety right now. Maybe you were sneaking in the drinks.
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That's what this big cup is. You thought it was water. It's pure vodka.
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I'm ready to get into it. I brought a varietal of things.
Exploring St. Patrick's Day Traditions
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, first of all, friends out there. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Christina, what did you bring? I brought drinking songs in history, so how to say it in a couple of languages, also the first one, and then I'm also going to talk about one of the most popular ones around St. Patrick's Day.
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What did you bring? I brought, is it a song about redheads or a drinking song? Why not both? Some of them are technically both. Okay, perfect. Good, good, good.
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And it's funny because some of them I was like, when I was reading this list, I was like, that's a song about redheads. And I had to look up the lyrics. So the ones that are about redheads, I brought the lyrics about redheads. Oh, I'm excited. Well, you want me to give you one? Yeah, definitely. OK, we are going to start out with a
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It's a unique one. I have not heard this song, but I can tell you that I do know that it is about what it is about. It is by Rhett Atkins, and it is called I Break for Brunettes. Is it a song about drinking, redheads, or both? Oh my God. I want to say both.
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just about redheads. Dang it. Well, technically, it's about ladies, but so the lyrics are well, I break for brunettes, blondes and corvettes redheads, I stop on a dime. Now the way I drive, it's a wonder I ever get anywhere on time. I love
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That's great. That's so good. Oh, man. I know. I really I was like, were there any beers called Pernet's because there are like, you know, red beers. I was like, no, but I really want this to be true. There's also the shot called a red headed slut. Yeah, that's true. And I never think of that as being
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a redhead thing, but it definitely is. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember if I like the shot or not. You can also get it drink style. I haven't had it in so long. I don't even remember. I think it has cranberry in it, doesn't it? Probably. You know, it's got to be red in some sort of way. Yeah, so I've never had it. Yeah, because you're allergic, right? I am.
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But I do remember people buying me that shot a lot in college and I just would never drink it. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, I am not a slut. Thank you. Also true. Also, nothing wrong with being a slut. Get on your slutty self. You do you.
Language Struggles and Laughter
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Okay, so if you're ever in Germany and you're like, oh, I'm drinking, I'd love to have some drinking songs to sing. The word for drinking songs in Germany is trinkle jaw.
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I think that's how you say it. Did you look up how to say it? I did. And then I phonetically spelled it, but this was hours ago. So I'm like, wait, is that how you say it? Oh, my God. And then in Sweden, it's called Jerkensweiser, which sounds way more like German.
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Okay, and then the final one, if you're ever in France and you're looking for some good drinking songs.
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It's called, okay. The reason I was wondering if this is what you were going to bring is because I was like, this is the one thing that Christina will struggle with the most. I know. I'm so punished myself. I'm so bad at this, and yet I continue to put myself through this ridiculousness. What is wrong with me?
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Oh, glad for punishment. Okay. Okay. Let me get in my French mode. That's my best effort there. That was pretty good. Thank you. I mean, bonsoir, mercy, mercy. How do you say thank you?
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Oh, man. Oh, boy. Yeah. All right. That's all I got for that. We'll move on to the next thing later. But give me give me another another game. OK, this one you might know. I know this one. Miranda Lampert's White Liar. Oh, I don't know it, but let me just like guess. White Liar. Both.
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Ding, ding, ding. So the lyrics are, you said you went out to a bar and walked some lady to her car, but your face has more to tell. Because my cousin saw you on the street with a redhead named Bernice. Turns out you don't lie too well. Bernice? Oh my god. It's heart. I agree. That is the best part of that song.
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Bernice? Oh, man. But it does have a redhead sound to it because I think it's the burn. Oh, God. I don't know any redheads named Bernice. I don't know anyone named Bernice. Yeah, I don't know anyone much less a redhead named Bernice. I would love to see a baby redhead named Bernice. Oh, then you could call it Bernie.
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It's so cute. I'm on board with that. Cute, cute, cute. All right. You've got one sock hop. All right, perfect. I guess you probably should win beers. Yes, maybe. Give me a delicious red beer.
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All right, I'm giving you a sour because that's what I would choose even though I know that Ambers are also reds. I do like sours and I like hard kabuchas. Those can be red. Oh, that's true. Just for future winnings. You have to give me a hard kabucha for everyone you lose. Okay, perfect.
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All right. I want another one. You want another one? Yeah, I'm feeling fired up. Dublin Blues by
Games and Trivia: Redheads and Drinking Songs
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Guy Clark. Ooh. God, I feel like that's both. It is just about drinking. Oh, damn it.
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I thought they'd go the red headed route because, you know, a lot of redheads and Dublin. Yeah, I mean, yeah. But instead, I think it's a country song. Who's the artist? Guy Clark. Oh, I have no idea. I think it's current. I mean, I'm down with some good country music, but I'm just like not on the up and up. I mean, most of these, a lot of these were country because apparently
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most of the songs about drinking are country songs now. Oh, I mean, yes, that makes sense. And apparently a lot of the songs about redheads now that I'm. Yeah, you don't hear a lot of rock songs singing about redheads, do you? Doesn't quite happen that way. Do you want another one? Yeah, definitely. All right. This one's coming at you from The White Stripes.
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Oh, OK. All right. Let's see what I did there. And it is fell in love with a girl. Oh, my God. I love the white stripes, but it's really hard to think of the song when you just give me like the title because I don't know them that well. But let me think. Let me think.
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Okay, I'm gonna say this is just a redhead song. Ding, ding, ding. Yes. Another Sour for Christina. You won't be sober long. The lyrics are fell in love with a girl. I fell in love with the these are super hard to read, by the way, without
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singing because they just don't make sense. I love the white stripes, too. They do not make sense in the same way. Yeah. Yeah. OK. I fell in love once and almost completely. She's in love with the world. But sometimes those feelings can be so misleading. She turns and says, are you all right? I said. Also, tense shift there. I must be fine because my heart's still beating.
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Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah. This is now what she is saying. He says, Bobby says it's fine, he doesn't consider it cheating now, I guess. Red head with a curl, or red hair with a curl. Mellow roll for the flavor and the eyes for peeping. Can't keep away from this girl.
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These two sides of my brain need to have a meeting. Can't think of anything to do. Yeah. My left brain knows that all my love is fleeting. She's just looking for something new. Yeah. Said it once, but it bears repeating now. Yeah, it's definitely better in a song version. Oh my God. I was like, this is, I set myself up for failure reading this. I had to like practice it before the podcast.
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Now all I hear is that song in my head. And I guess I never realized he said red head with a girl. Red hair with a girl. I never thought there are several on this list that I never thought about them saying red hair. Actually, I don't think I thought about it for any of these. Well, I have never heard the I break for brunette song.
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I guess I could have listened to it, but I was really busy reading the white stripes thing out loud over and over again. Well, wait till we get to the song that I have called Beer, Beer, Beer. All right, give it to me. So this is a really popular St. Patrick's Day song, apparently according to the interwebs.
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And it's called Beer Beer Beer. It's also titled an Ode to Charles, oh actually it's Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer. You mean an ode? Oh yeah, that's what I mean. Even English is difficult.
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So okay, it's a folk song originating in the British Isles. The song is often performed as a drinking song and is intended as a tribute to the mythical inventor of beer, Charlie Mops. It is often held to have been created in the Irish pubs, but there's another theory that it was created in the 1800s in music halls in the British Isles. So of course, you know, everyone's laying claim. And
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The lyrics are really funny. So it starts off, you're counting beers, one, two, three, beer, beer, beer, Titli beer, beer, beer. A long time ago, way back in history, way back in history.
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When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea, along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops. He invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of hops. He must have been an admiral, a sultan, or a king, and to his praises we shall always sing, and look what he has done for us. He's filled us up with cheer. Lord bless Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer, beer, beer.
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Anyway, it goes on. There's some funny lyrics and like, yeah. And then one's like, a bushel of malt, a barrel of hops. You stir it around with a stick. That salty lubrication that makes your engine tick. A 40 pints of wallop a day will keep away the quacks. It's only eight half penny, a pot, and one and six in tax. That verse right there sounds really hard for Christina to see.
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Imagine singing that after three beer, beer, beers. Oh, exactly. Titilly beer, beer, beer. One, two, three. Beer, beer, beer. How fun. It would be really fun to sing that song. It would. I could imagine you giving up partway through and just pretending to sing with. I would just do the verse, which is basically like one, two, three, four, beer, beer, beer, you know, all the fun stuff.
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But at first I was like, wait, did he really invent beer? But no, he was totally made up, presumably because his name rhymes with hops. I would imagine. Yeah, so he's not real, guys. He's not real.
17th-Century Drinking Songs: Then and Now
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Maybe his hair looked like a mop. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Maybe both. Yeah, maybe it was Charlie that invented it, but his last name is not mops. All right, back to it. All right.
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This one is by Coming in Hot from Willie Nelson. Ooh, love me some Willie. Whiskey River. Oh, man. Did you think about redheads or not? Ooh. Redheads, drinking, or both? I feel like I'm going to go with both. Damn it. But it's a tricky one because it's Willie.
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I know. And it says whiskey in the title. It's just about drinking. No redheads. Damn it. Willie. He let you down. I know. Why don't you sing about redheads, man? I'm sure he does. Yeah, there's got to be some song in there. So I only have two left.
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All right, cool. I have the first stringing song ever to be recorded in the history of histories. Ooh, not recorded, but like.
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written, you know? Yeah, to be written in the history books, recorded in the history, historical record, if you will. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah. So, all right, I can lay that on you and then we can finish up with the two questions that I'm going to nail. Okay, so the first ever recorded instance of a drinking song is believed to come from the Carmina Barana manuscripts written in 1230.
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by two different scribes on 119 sheets of parchment. So the general, like the works of Carmina Barana is broken down into four groups in themes. So they have 55, and basically these are like written poems, but they're set to music. So 55 songs of morals and mockery. I love that theme.
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Me too. I want that to be my new title. Morals and mockery. And then there's 131 love songs, of course. Then there's two longer spiritual theatrical pieces, right? Some drama added in there. And then there's 40 drinking and gaming songs. I love that the theme is grouped into drinking and gaming, which is perfect.
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So the 17th century was particularly significant time for drinking songs as cataloged and analyzed by historian Mark Hollywood.
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who identifies the three different categories. This is actually moving into a different century past this because I thought this was really funny. So the different categories that he identified back in the 17th century, two of them were broadside ballads. So this is like, you know, the drinking songs are just
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you know, big and boisterous. And then they're the ones where it's manifestations of low culture, low as quote unquote culture. So according to Mark, he's like, the drinking songs often contain warnings about the types of companions to avoid or extrapolated the qualities of the ideal drinking companion. So this is
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totally what's happening in modern days with friends in low places. Garth Brooks. And then our big ballads. I just love it because this is from the 17th century and yet still today we've got our good ballads and we've got our warnings of low culture. That's amazing. We don't want no scrubs.
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Oh my God, I love it. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was really funny. All right. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready to nail this. You've got this. I believe in you. I believe in me too. This one is coming at you from the one and only Dolly Parton. Oh, nice. It is Jolene.
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Oh, God, does she say redheads in that? I'm gonna say it's just redheads. I don't think there's any drinking in that. Maybe there is drinking. I'm gonna say both. Oh no, Christi. I don't know, I'm trying to sing it in my head, but I don't wanna, for the audiences, sparing them from a bunch of silence on a podcast, I don't wanna go through the sock in my head.
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Okay. Okay. Well, I have to stick to both because I already said both, but. I don't know to see you and say redheads in that. I don't even know. All right. I'm just going to say both. God damn it. Damn it. Your beauty is beyond compare with
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flaming locks of auburn hair with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green.
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Your smile is like a breath of spring. Your voice is soft, like summer rain, and I cannot compete with you, Jolene. Oh, man, damn it. I should have gone with my initial gut of it's a redhead song. I never thought about that as being in there ever. No, me neither. When I saw it on this list, I was like, what? And then I had to read it like three times. I kept missing Flaming Auburn hair because Auburn hair is
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Kind of like you may not if you have auburn hair, you may not identify as a redhead. Yeah. Yeah. It can fall under the umbrella or not. Yeah. Yeah. Although red Atkins or whatever would still break for you. Who what? Oh, because you're a lady. I guess he just doesn't break for people who have gray or colorful hair. Oh, man. Yeah, you're right.
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It's really what he's saying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Gray or multicolored hair, you're out of here. Black hair, not having it. Not having it. All right. Are you ready for the last one? Final one. This one's coming at you from Hank Williams, Jr. Oh. And it is family tradition. Oh, man. I don't even know that song.
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I'm going to say drinking. Ding, ding, ding. Yes. All right. I ended on a high note. You did. You did. You get three sour beer, beer, beers. That's very fitting. You owe me four hard kombucha. All right. You got it. I'll get you a red one. Yay. Cheers.
Wrapping Up and Listener Engagement
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Cheers.
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