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Join us on our quest to find America's drinking song! Each month we learn the history of a drinking song and then learn to sing it while ... drinking!
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Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
In our second episode Kris and Greg get something out of the way and explore the shameful history of the children's counting song that many Americans think of as a drinking song ... for inscrutable reasons. We also maybe overshoot our drinking a little and may have been unable to order a pizza after we were done recording this episode.
Show notes and what we were drinking at www.boozebards.com
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
In the inaugural episode of Booze Bards, we roll back the clock to the 18th century and discover that the U.S. national anthem is actually a drinking song in disguise! Our beloved Star Spangled Banner started its life as the "Anacreontic Song" or "To Anacreon in Heaven." We discuss the society of drinkers and singers that wrote it as well as the Greek poet it was in homage to. We discover it is even harder to sing with the original words. We also get a little tipsy!