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Alcoholic

Published on these records

Chim Chim's Bad Ass Revenge

(1996)

(1996)

Fishbone 101 - Nuttasaurusmeg Fossil Fuelin' The Fonkay

(1996)

(1999)

Live in Amsterdam

(2005)

Live in Bordeaux

(2009)

Official video

Performance Statistics

Performed	First played	Last played
647 times	06 Jul 1985 @ Keystone - Palo Alto (CA-US)	24 Jan 2025 @ Soho - Santa Barbara (CA-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
Apr 12th 1987	Inkstick Shibaura Factory - Tokyo (JP)
Nov 13th 1991	Agora - Cleveland (OH)
Nov 18th 1991	Orpheum Theater - Boston (MA)
Nov 27th 1991	GSU Sports Arena - Atlanta (GA)
Nov 29th 1991	Cameo Theatre - Miami Beach (FL)
Jan 15th 1992	Catalyst - Santa Cruz (CA)
Jan 16th 1992	Warfield Theater - San Francisco (CA)
Jul 13th 1993	Limelight - New York (NY)
Oct 30th 1994	Slims - San Francisco (CA)
Nov 10th 1994	Le Rendez Vous - Winnipeg (MB)

Found on these live recordings

224 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jun 12th 2001	Toad's Place - New Haven (CT)	Audience
	Jul 18th 2001	Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver (BC)	Audience
	Jul 20th 2001	Berbatis Pan - Portland (OR)	Audience
	Aug 24th 2001	Temple Bar - Santa Monica (CA)	Audience
	Oct 25th 2001	Harper's Ferry - Allston (MA)	Audience
	Apr 25th 2002	Lee's Palace - Toronto (ON)	Audience
	Apr 26th 2002	Boo Radley's - Guelph (ON)	Audience
	Apr 27th 2002	Call the Office - London (ON)	Audience
	Apr 29th 2002	Water Street Bar - Rochester (NY)	Audience
	Jul 27th 2002	Tucson Convention Center - Tucson (AZ)	Soundboard

Found in these videos

Tagged in 74 videos

Found in 27 full show videos

Lyrics

Ohh Alcoholic
Ohh real good liquor
Ohh make you clumsy
Ohh make you throw up

Well...my Pop had a party at the house one night
on the last day of school and the food is all right.
We had a speaker on the roof and a speaker on the hill
with four turntables and a reel to reel.
All the pretty women came, no ugly chicks
all the stars came from the Ritz.
The people eat the chicken
and they drink up all the liquor
and they turn into a big
Screwdriver

Well...my uncle is a 'Holic'
and he down a pound of Whiskey!
With an Eight for a chaser,
spit it on the bouncer
kicked his ass
and he lost a girlfriend
with a big soul kitchen
Now he's layin' in the gutter
like a skid row bum
Skid row bum style

Ohh Alcoholic
Ohh Scotch and 800
Ohh make you scratch the record
Ohh burn the spaghetti

Well...I came home from school on a Monday.
I missed the radio reggae show.
I felt like a rude boy,
I could have slammed me a poseur

"You know" Well...
My uncle called me a punk rocker in the doorway
as he dribbled on the table
when he started to say,
"You're not a rude boy, you're a lazy boy,
you should make like a tree and leave
Make like a library and book,
Make like a roach and bug off"

Ohh Alcoholic
you can't drive
Before you crash and go to jail.