We've made it to Friday again, beer fans. Come in and share a cold one with FNBB!
And now my new song, titled "Bad Beer Boogie", inspired by this story that I covered a few weeks ago.
The music for "Bad Beer Boogie" is "Rutabaga Boogie", which I heard on the old Dr Demento radio show about 40 years ago. Why the hell can I remember that stuff, and not things I read last week that are actually useful to me? Shit, at least once I had a whole verse for the song in my head that ran away before I wrote it down.
Much later I learned that the music for "Rutabaga Boogie" is Freight Train Boogie. Which is probably borrowed from somewhere else too.
Go listen to one of those videos now to get the tune in your head, then sing along:
We're the mega-brewers, coming to you
with marketing driven industrial brew
don't talk to us about German rules
we sell enough of this to fill swimming pools
CHORUS: Do the Bad Beer Boogie
All the time
with a Coors and a Miller and a Keystone and a Bud Light Lime
Do the Bad Beer Boogie
Sing it with me
with a Hamms and an Oly and a Falstaff and a Genesee
Narragansett, Red White & Blue,
PBR, Brew 102,
Old Milwaukee, Shiner Bock
Old Style, Schlitz and Rolling Rock
[chorus]
What Americans drink is fizzy and thin
remember that and you can win
"Fucking close to water", we've heard the joke
give the people what they want and you don't go broke
[chorus]
Pearl and Schaefer, Pabst and Stroh
Iron City, Natty Boh
Lucky Lager, Blatz and Stag
Rainier Ale makes me gag
[chorus]
Beer's a business, not an art
we're telling you so you'll be smart
money flows out of that tap
and no one cares if it tastes like crap
[chorus]
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What are you drinking? Who's brewing?