What's your favorite Wine Song or Lyric?

What’s your favorite Wine Song or lyric?

I like Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You”

“Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter
And so sweet oh
I could drink a case of you darling and I would
Still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet”

What’s your favorite Wine Song or lyric?

Loudon Wainwright III’s “Wine With Dinner.”

Don’t know who I insulted, maybe it was you
The drinks I had resulted in a tirade or two
I went downtown to get in trouble
I accomplished that
Drank some drinks, flew off the handle,
Right off of the bat

Drinks before dinner
And wine with dinner
And after-dinner drinks
Single-entendre, help me Rhonda
Look for my cufflinks
Come with me and you will see
It all will be all right
Rudolph the red-nosed wino
Is gonna guide our sleigh tonight…

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Double post, so I will add “Water Into Wine” by bruce Cockburn.

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Al Stewart’s Down In The Cellars:

Down in the cellars of Jean-Louis Chave
All the shadows are leaving
Bottles lying asleep in the caves
You’ll see history breathing
From Cote-Rotie down to Hermitage
The vines are trellised in evening
In the cellars of Jean-Louis Chave
You’ll see history breathing
Generations go slipping away now
What can you say now, five hundred years
Lives are written here
Pages on pages, ages on ages
Just disappear
From Cote-Rotie down to Hermitage
The vines are trellised in evening
In the cellars of Jean-Louis Chave
You’ll see history breathing

“Like a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape
I’m fine like wine when I start to rap”

~ Body Movin’, The Beastie Boys

“I’m tryin’ to walk a straight line
On sour mash and cheap wine”

~ Have a Drink On Me, AC/DC

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Hamlet’s aria from Hamlet

Ò vin, dissipe la tristesse Oh wine, dissipate the sadness
Qui pèse sur mon coeur! that lies heavy upon my heart!
A moi les rèves de l’ivresse To me give the dreams of intoxication
Et le rire moqueur! and the mocking laughter!
O liqueur enchanteresse, O enchanting liqueur,
Verse l’ivresse pour drunkeness
Et l’oubli dans mon coeur! and forgetfulness into my heart!
Douce liqueur! Sweet liqueur!
La vie est sombre Life is somber;
Les ans sont courts; The years are short.
De nos beaux jours Of our beautiful days
Dieu sait le nombre God knows the number.
Chacun hélas! Porte ici-bas Each person, alas! carries here
Sa lourde chaîne! his heavy chain -
Cruels devoirs, Cruel duties,
Longs désespoirs Slow despairs
De l’âme humaine! Of the human soul!
Loin de nous, noirs présages! Away from us, black omens!
Ah! Ah!

Good Gawd what a beautiful voice. Lovelovelove The Voice of Firestone!

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One song, two great references. Elvis Costello, Battered Old Bird:

On the first floor there are two old maids
Each one wishing that the other was afraid
And next door to them is a man so mild
'Til he chopped off the head of a visitor’s child
He danced upon the bonfire
Swallowed sleeping pills like dreams
With a bottle of sweet sherry that everything redeems
And on the second floor is the Macintosh Man
He’s in his overcoats more than out of them
And the typewriter’s rattling all through the night
He’s burgundy for breakfast type
He says “One day I’ll throw away all of my cares”
And it is always Christmas in a cupboard at the top of the stairs

Additionally, the opener of the album - Uncomplicated - gets another wine nod with:
I asked for Water
And they gave me Rosé Wine

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Not specifically about wine, but it’s a good one:

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He looks like Rock Hudson and has THAT voice.

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^This.

Others I like:

Jeremiah was a bull frog.
Was a good friend of mine.
Never understood a single word he said,
But I helped him drink his wine.
He always had some mighty fine wine.
– Joy to the World, Three Dog Night

Business men, they drink my wine.
Plowman dig my earth.
– All Along the Watchtower, Bob Dylan

Champagne counts, right?

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A couple of Jay Z faves…

Tom Ford:

Paris where we been, pard’ my Parisian
It’s Hov time in no time, it’s fu#$-all-y’all season
Piss Bordeaux and Burgundies, flush out of Riesling

Excuse Me Miss:

You can’t even drink Crist-OWL on this one
You gotta drink Crist-ALL
Buy some red wine, a little Gaja 9-7
This is for the grown and sexy, uhh

Show Me What you Got:

I’m just getting better with time
I’m like Opus One

Why is he gesturing toward Frazier Crane?

Bob Dylan
"We started off on Burgundy, then the (better) stuff.
DoctorJay

Bob Dylan
"We started off on Burgundy, then the (better) stuff.
DoctorJay

Well woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand
Whose wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?