Booze Bards

The Booze Bards finally explore a song worthy of being considered a proper drinking song. We explore the naval history of the drink called grog and how it gave rise to a fun not-really-sea-shanty that proved a delight to sing whilst drunk. We drank rum. It was good. 

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

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!