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On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:23:59 -0700 (PDT), RichD
<r_delaney2...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm looking for a source of beer drinking songs;
>irish, english, scotch, most likely.
>
>Can anybody recommend a CD? (or LP. or even
>tape cassette)  Better yet, with piano sheet music.

There are many _called_ that but I suggest you consider...

Do you want songs about drinking?
Or do you want songs traditionally sung _while_ drinking?

The two are very different.most
For the latter, "convivial" songs might be anything that go well in a
group - around the piano, as it were.  They may be "folk songs" or show
tunes or Elvis.  See Robert Burns, Hash or Rugby songs, army songs,
"tavern songs."

I think that most CDs calling themselves tavern or drinking songs are
just the notion of the record company or sheet music publisher but key
word search.

And, pardon me, do you want Scottish songs or songs about scotch?

A bare few that occur to me off the top of my head:

Lloyd, AL; English Drinking Songs; 1956 (LP or CD)

MacColl, Ewan; Scotch Drinking Songs; Offbeat Records; 1989  (See? They
make the same misteak) - Reissue of _Scots Drinking Songs;  Riverside
RLP 12-605; 1956

MacColl, Ewan; Saturday Night at the Bull and Mouth; Folkways; CD 1978
(original LP) 

Makem, Tommy & Clancy Bros.; Irish Drinking Songs; Tradition; CD-R 1959
(original LP)
 

You might ask your library or their Inter-library Loan dept. fot Frank
Shay's _My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions_ AND _More Pious Friends
and Drunken Companions_ (often as a single volume.)

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