Songs about bars

[Plakespear]

"Memory Motel" Rolling Stones. About the Memory Motel in Montauk, NY
"Last Mango in Paris" Jimmy Buffet. About Captain Tony's in Key West, FL

[CaddyDaddy77]

"Memory Motel" Rolling Stones. About the Memory Motel in Montauk, NY

While we are on the Stones, "The Spider and the Fly"

Sittin’ thinkin’ sinkin’ drinkin’
Wond’ring what I’ll do when I’m through tonight
Smokin’ mopin’ maybe just hopin’
Some little girl will pass on by
To wanna be alone
But I love my girl at home
I remember what she said
She said, my! my! my!
Don’t tell lies!
Keep fidelity in your head!
My! my! my! don’t tell lies!
When you’ve done your show go to bed
Don’t say hi! like a spider to a fly
Jump right ahead and you’re dead!

Sit up fed up low down go ’round
Down to the bar at the place I’m at
Sittin’ drinkin’ superficially thinkin’
About the rins’d out blonde on my left
And then I said hi! like a spider to a fly
Rememb’ring what my little girl said
She was coming flirty
She look’d about thirty
I would have run away, but I was on my own
She told me later she’s a machine operator
She said she liked the way I held the microphone
I said, my! my! my! like a spider to a fly
Jump right ahead in my web!


Always dug that one.

[Viva]

I have seen you in the movies
And in those magazines at night
I saw you on the barstool when
You held that glass so tight.
And I saw you in my nightmares
But I'll see you in my dreams
And I might live a thousand years
Before I know what that means.

[Plakespear]

Well, I was trying to start a thread about actual bars that had songs written about them...

[crashnburn'd]

Margaritaville...
I'm sure Sammy Hagar has written a song about Cabo Wabo

[vinzclortho]

Margaritaville...
I'm sure Sammy Hagar has written a song about Cabo Wabo

margaritaville was a song way before it was a bar

Cabo Wabo is a VH song but it was a place in mexico before it was a VH song and before it was a bar. Damn good tequila though.

[Woodsy]

2 come to mind
Robert Earl Keen "feelin good again"

Standin' down on Main Street
Across from Mr, Blues
In my faded leather jacket
And my weathered Brogan shoes
A chill north wind was blowin'
But the spring was comin' on
As I wondered to myself
Just how long I had been gone

So I strolled across old Main Street
Walked down a flight of stairs
Stepped into the hall
And saw all my friends were there
A neon sign was flashin' "Welcome come on in"
It feels so good feelin' good again

and rhetorical Talking Heads, Heaven

Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven plays my favorite song.
They play it once again, they play it all night long.

[Benny Profane]

[StormRider]

The Old Dun Cow
It's the name of a pub and the song. The Irish band I saw a lot in college sang it all the time. Sometimes mis-refered to as MacIntyre!

While I was sittin' in a public house
Was playing a dominoes one night
When all of a sudden a man walks in
His face all a in a freight.
"What's up", says Brown, "Have you seen a ghost,
Or have you seen your Aunt Mariah?"
"Me Aunt Mariah be buggered!", says he,
"The bleedin' pub's on fire!"

And there was Brown upside down
Lappin'' up the whiskey on the floor.
"Booze, booze!" The firemen cried
As they came knockin' on the door (clap clap)
Oh don't let 'em in till it's all drunk up
And somebody shouted MacIntyre! MACINTYRE!
And we all got blue-blind paralytic drunk
When the Old Dun Cow caught fire.

"Oh well," says Brown, "What a bit of luck.
Everybody follow me.
And it's down to the cellar
If the fire's not there
Then we'll have a grand old spree."
So we went on down after good old Brown
The booze we could not miss
And we hadn't been there ten minutes or more
Till we were quite pissed.

Then, Smith walked over to the port wine tub
And gave it just a few hard knocks (clap clap)
Started takin' off his pantaloons
Likewise his shoes and socks.
"Hold on, " says Brown, "that ain't allowed
Ya cannot do that thing here.
Don't go washin' trousers in the port wine tub
When we got Guinness beer."

Then there came from the old back door
The Vicar of the local church.
And when he saw our drunken ways,
He began to scream and curse.
"Ah, you drunken sods! You heathen clods!
You've taken to a drunken spree!
You drank up all the Benedictine wine
And you didn't save a drop for me!"

And then there came a mighty crash
Half the bloody roof caved in.
We were almost drowned in the firemen's hose
But still we were gonna stay.
So we got some tacks and some old wet sacks
And we nailed ourselves inside
And we sat drinking the finest Rum
Till we were bleary-eyed.

Later that night, when the fire was out
We came up from the cellar below.
Our pub was burned. Our booze was drunk.
Our heads was hanging low.
"Oh look", says Brown with a look quite queer.
Seems something raised his ire.
"Now we gotta get down to Murphy's Pub,
It closes on the hour!"



Edit: Post # 69. Sweeeet.

[sea2ski]

Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls" mentions a few nudie bars but I don't know if that's really what you were looking for. You are probably thinking more along the lines of "Alice's Restaraunt".