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The 15 Greatest Beer Songs of All Time

By YPB Team

Blues orders, polka standards, country singalongs and one Bavarian toast that stops a tent every fifteen minutes.

  1. Friends in Low Places — ranked #11
    Friends in Low Places
    Garth Brooks, 1990 — the country song most likely to be sung badly in a bar.
    1000pts
  2. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) — ranked #22
    Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
    Brecht and Weill by way of The Doors, asking for the next whisky bar.
    952pts
  3. Margaritaville — ranked #33
    Margaritaville
    Jimmy Buffett's 1977 anthem that built a restaurant chain and a retirement community.
    762pts
  4. Red Red Wine — ranked #44
    Red Red Wine
    Neil Diamond wrote it, UB40 made it a reggae standard about drinking to forget.
    734pts
  5. Beer for My Horses — ranked #55
    Beer for My Horses
    Toby Keith and Willie Nelson's 2003 country duet and its own film.
    571pts
  6. Piano Man — ranked #66
    Piano Man
    Billy Joel's 1973 portrait of a bar where the regulars are the point, not the beer.
    571pts
  7. Beercan — ranked #77
    Beercan
    Beck's 1994 slacker anthem from Mellow Gold, built on a loop and a shrug.
    571pts
  8. Ein Prosit — ranked #88
    Ein Prosit
    The two-line Bavarian toast that stops an Oktoberfest tent every fifteen minutes.
    467pts
  9. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer — ranked #99
    One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
    John Lee Hooker's blues order, later shouted nightly by George Thorogood.
    467pts
  10. Sally MacLennane — ranked #1010
    Sally MacLennane
    The Pogues' 1985 drinking song about a pub send-off, from Rum Sodomy & the Lash.
    467pts
  11. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers — ranked #1111
    Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
    ZZ Top, 1973 — a Texas boogie built entirely on the title's promise.
    343pts
  12. Tubthumping — ranked #1212
    Tubthumping
    Chumbawamba, 1997 — whisky drink, vodka drink, lager drink, and a chorus nobody escaped.
    343pts
  13. Beer Never Broke My Heart — ranked #1313
    Beer Never Broke My Heart
    Luke Combs, 2019 — the most-streamed modern entry in the genre.
    343pts
  14. In Heaven There Is No Beer — ranked #1414
    In Heaven There Is No Beer
    The polka standard sung in every Oktoberfest tent and Wisconsin wedding.
    0pts
  15. Why Don't We Get Drunk — ranked #1515
    Why Don't We Get Drunk
    Jimmy Buffett's 1973 bar-room single that he claimed was a joke and played for fifty years.
    0pts

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