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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
634 times	06 Jul 1985 @ Keystone - Palo Alto (CA-US)	15 Dec 2023 @ Goldfield Trading Post - Roseville (CA-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
May 1st 1996	Planet Rock - Huntsville (AL)
May 3rd 1996	Five Points Music Hall - Birmingham (AL)
May 5th 1996	Music Midtown Festival - Atlanta (GA)
May 22nd 1996	9:30 Club - Washington (DC)
May 31st 1996	Hammerjacks - Baltimore (MD)
Jun 6th 1996	The Odeon - Cleveland (OH)
Jun 23rd 1996	Clubhouse Pub - Colorado Springs (CO)
Jul 4th 1996	Desert Sky Pavilion - Phoenix (AZ)
Jul 6th 1996	Olympic Velodrome - Los Angeles (CA)
Jul 7th 1996	Crissy Field - San Francisco (CA)

Found on these live recordings

220 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Oct 9th 1998	A.1.A. - Lexington (KY)	Audience
	Oct 10th 1998	Majestic Theater - Detroit (MI)	Audience
	Oct 31st 1998	Alley Cat Scramble - Toronto (ON)	Audience
	Dec 3rd 1998	The Vault - Baltimore (MD)	Audience
	Feb 19th 1999	Key Club - W Hollywood (CA)	Soundboard
	Mar 14th 1999	KROQ Festival - Arcadia (CA)	Audience
	Sep 8th 1999	Bataclan - Paris (FR)	Audience
	Sep 9th 1999	Melkweg - Amsterdam (NL)	Audience
	Oct 14th 1999	Brick Works - Chico (CA)	Audience
	Nov 24th 1999	Cannibus Cup - Amsterdam (NL)	Audience

Found in these videos

Tagged in 72 videos

Found in 24 full show videos

Official video

https://youtu.be/kScvg2CDMWw

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.