# The 15 Greatest Beer Songs of All Time

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

*By YPB Team · Published September 15, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-15-greatest-beer-songs-of-all-time*

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

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