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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
645 times	06 Jul 1985 @ Keystone - Palo Alto (CA-US)	24 Jan 2025 @ Soho - Santa Barbara (CA-US)

Date Sort descending	Venue
Jul 6th 1985	Keystone - Palo Alto (CA)
Oct 27th 1985	Sandburg Cabaret - Milwaukee (WI)
Dec 4th 1985	Student Union Multipurpose Room - Long Beach (CA)
Dec 27th 1985	Keystone - Palo Alto (CA)
Dec 28th 1985	The Stone - San Francisco (CA)
Mar 1st 1986	SCU Underground Coffee House - Santa Clara (CA)
Jun 19th 1986	The Stone - San Francisco (CA)
Jul 11th 1986	Shibuya Public Hall - Shibuya (Tokyo)
Jul 26th 1986	Old Town Bar and Grill - Eureka (CA)
Sep 21st 1986	Street Scene - Los Angeles (CA)

Found on these live recordings

223 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	May 9th 2007	Agora - Cleveland (OH)	Professional capture
	May 14th 2007	Cervantes - Denver (CO)	Professional capture
	May 15th 2007	Aggie Theater - Fort Collins (CO)	Audience
	May 18th 2007	Dante's - Portland (OR)	Audience
	May 19th 2007	Studio Seven - Seattle (WA)	Audience
	Jul 8th 2007	Werfpop - Leiden (NL)	Audience
	Sep 29th 2007	Mohave Mesa Cornfest - Bullhead City (AZ)	Audience
	Apr 23rd 2008	Rock School Barbey - Bordeaux (FR)	Audience
	Aug 30th 2008	Moe.down - Turin (NY)	Professional capture
	Dec 3rd 2008	Recher Theater - Towson (MD)	Audience

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.