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"Why Don't We Get Drunk" is a novelty song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was a B-side to "The Great Filling Station Holdup", the first single from his 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean .
Billboard magazine reported that only the A-side was promoted to country radio, because the word "screw" (repeatedly used in "Why Don't We Get Drunk") was not generally acceptable in country radio programming at the time; however, "Why Don't We Get Drunk" was played by some "underground" stations on FM radio. [4] "
"Why Don't We Get Drunk" – J.D., Ensemble "Three Chords" – Tully, Rachel "We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About/The Natives Are Restless" – Brick, Tammy "Son of a Son of a Sailor" – Tully, Rachel "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don't Love Jesus" – Marley, Jamal, JD, Ensemble
Beginning with "Fins", the album also includes "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)?" and "Pencil Thin Mustache." "Elvis Imitators," an attempt at an Elvis Presley rockabilly song, written by Steve Goodman and Mike Smith, and "Domino College" were both previously unreleased on a Buffett album.
All of the songs on A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean were written or co-written by Buffett.. The most well-known song of the album, the novelty "Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw)", was originally released as a B-side, backing the single "The Great Filling Station Holdup", and inspired some controversy at the time due to its lyrics.
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The title of the album, Equal Strain on All Parts, comes from a saying his grandfather would use to describe "a good nap". [9] The track "My Gummie Just Kicked In" was described as a surf rock song about a woman's experience of eating a cannabis edible at a summer dinner party. [10]
After singing "Why Don't We Get Drunk", Buffett surprised the Coral Reefer Band by waving them off stage to perform solo, in which he played a 10-minute rendition of "God's Own Drunk" while the rest of the band stood to the side of the stage and watched. This was done to extend the show as long as possible before the hurricane arrived ...