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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
	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
	Oct 8th 2002	Front 54 - Thorold (ON)	Audience
	Oct 10th 2002	Lee's Palace - Toronto (ON)	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.