I Like Beer

"I Like Beer"
Single by Tom T. Hall
from the album I Wrote a Song About It
B-side"From a Mansion to a Honky Tonk"
ReleasedAugust 25, 1975
RecordedMarch 27, 1975
Mercury Custom Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
GenreCountry
Length2:52
LabelMercury 73704
Songwriter(s)Tom T. Hall
Producer(s)Jerry Kennedy
Tom T. Hall singles chronology
"Deal"
(1975) 		"I Like Beer"
(1975) 		"Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)"
(1975)

"I Like Beer" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall. The song was released in August 1975 as the lead single from the album I Wrote a Song About It. The song peaked at number 4 on the U.S. country singles chart and number 12 on the Canadian country singles chart.[1]

Plot

In the first verse, Hall explains that in previous songs of his, that he mentioned his fondness for beer, and for this song, he would like to make this explicit, praising its mood-mellowing effects and explaining in the chorus that he does not like the coarseness of whiskey, the cost of champagne, or the effects vodka has on him (makes him run his mouth, ostensibly getting him in trouble). In the second verse, he takes joy in embarrassing his vermouth-drinking wife by yelling out for a beer. In the third verse, Hall tells of a dream he had of heaven, where the water tasted like beer before, to his disappointment, "they turned it all into wine."

Chart performance

Chart (1975–76) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) 70
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 12
New Zealand (Listener)[2] 30
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[3] 4

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 149.
  2. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 9 April 1976
  3. ^ "Tom T. Hall Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2 March 2017.


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