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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
Nov 13th 1994	The Rave - Milwaukee (WI)
Nov 14th 1994	Union Bar - Iowa City (IA)
Mar 2nd 1995	WUST Radio Music Hall - Washington (DC)
Mar 6th 1995	Irving Plaza - New York (NY)
Mar 11th 1995	Vic Theater - Chicago (IL)
Apr 1st 1996	Palookaville - Santacruz (CA)
Apr 3rd 1996	Phoenix Theater - Petaluma (CA)
Apr 22nd 1996	Fox Theater - Boulder (CO)
Apr 25th 1996	Ranch Bowl - Omaha (NE)
Apr 30th 1996	Galaxy - St Louis (MO)

Found on these live recordings

223 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jul 27th 2019	White Oak Ampitheatre - Greensboro (NC)	Audience
	Aug 22nd 2019	H-E-B Center - Cedar Park (TX)	Audience
	Dec 14th 2021	Bottom Of the Hill - San Francisco (CA)	Audience
	Dec 15th 2021	Bottom Of the Hill - San Francisco (CA)	Audience
	Jul 29th 2022	Pioneer Courthouse Square - Portland (OR)	Audience
	Sep 2nd 2022	Mercury Cafe - Denver (CO)	Audience
	Sep 3rd 2022	Bottom Lounge - Chicago (IL)	Audience
	Sep 3rd 2022	Bottom Lounge - Chicago (IL)	Audience
	Sep 9th 2022	State Theatre - Falls Church (VA)	Audience
	Dec 13th 2022	Harlow's - Sacramento (CA)	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.