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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
Mar 31st 2023	Ramas Festival - Rincon (PR)
Apr 21st 2023	Baltimore Soundstage - Baltimore (MD)
Apr 22nd 2023	Broken Goblet Brewing - Bensalem (PA)
Apr 23rd 2023	Gramercy Theatre - New York (NY)
Apr 24th 2023	Bayside Bowl - Portland (ME)
Apr 25th 2023	Brighton Music Hall - Allston (MA)
May 17th 2023	South Shore Room at Harrah's - Stateline (NV)
May 20th 2023	Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - Santa Cruz (CA)
May 21st 2023	The Observatory North Park - San Diego (CA)
May 23rd 2023	Red Butte Garden - Salt Lake City (UT)

Found on these live recordings

223 live recording(s)

	Date	Venue	Source
	Jun 5th 2010	Wakarusa Festival - Ozark (AR)	Professional capture
	Oct 14th 2010	DNA Lounge - San Francisco (CA)	Soundboard
	Nov 13th 2010	Club Nokia - Los Angeles (CA)	Audience
	Dec 16th 2010	Avalon Night Club - Santa Clara (CA)	Professional capture
	Feb 11th 2011	Cervantes - Denver (CO)	Audience
	Feb 21st 2011	Altar Bar - Pittsburgh (PA)	Audience
	Feb 27th 2011	Amos' Southend - Charlotte (NC)	Audience
	Mar 1st 2011	The Norva - Norfolk (VA)	Audience
	May 28th 2011	Yucca Tap Room - Tempe (AZ)	Audience
	Oct 20th 2011	Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles (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.