Drinking song : A song at to drink is an end song of meal which encourages the consumption de wine, sometimes more widelyalcohol. Drinking songs are usually performed in groups: for meal family, the banquet de marriage, holidays students, new Year's Day,…
History: Although it is difficult to establish a common pattern for all drinking songs, they share at least the following traits:
- the presence of numerous explicit incentives for the consumption of alcoholic beverages ;
- passages planned to stop singing and have a drink ass-dry ;
- the great variety of melodies: if some are not very elaborate, comprising only one or two musical phrases and a weak vocal range, others on the contrary require a large range or benefit from a learned polyphony - for example, the famous Tourdion, published by Pierre Attaingnant in the XNUMXth century.
The musical style of the drinking song makes it very similar to the bawdy song, and the latter can be a drinking song at the same time. We note, however, that the converse is false: a drinking song is not meant to be saucy.
Examples of drinking song:
- Knights of the round table (In a cellar I want to be buried, in a cellar yes yes yes…).
- A well-known air by Gabriel Bataille: "Bottle, bottle, bottle, bottle companion, empty this glass for us and we will fill it ...", revived by Tri Yann with their "Drinking song";
- "He is one of us, he drank his glass like the others ...";
- On the 31st of August ("Let's drink one shot, let's drink two, to the health of lovers, to the health of the King of France, and shit for the King of England, who has declared war on us ..." ). Song inspired by the capture of Kent by Robert Surcouf aboard La Confiance, October 7, 1800 (although the date is not the same).
- "51 I love you and I will drink barrels (and barrels) to roll me on the ground in all the gutters…"
- The Liège background has given birth to a few songs: De Frontibus
- "And it seems that the people of Rouen had drowned in a vat of Calvados ...". Drinking song sung by the students of Rouen.
- "Let's have a drink, my billhook is lost, but the handle is back ..."
- Have a drink
- Le tourdion, a drinking song from the XNUMXth century.
- "I have two loves, the kanterbrau, the kronenbourg…"
- Come and have a drink at the License IV house (group)
- Fanchon
- To the health of Noah and Alexander, whose names filled the earth, typical of the Aosta Valley.
- Rum, from the wives of Soldat Louis.