Drinkin' Bone

Album: The Truth About Men (2003)
Charted: 60
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is a lesson in honky tonk anatomy: The drinkin' bone is connected to the party bone, connected to stayin' out all night long, connected to winding up all alone. It's a play on the song "Dry Bones," a spiritual song adapted into a nursery rhyme that gives a more literal anatomy lesson:

    The toe bone's connected to the foot bone
    The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone...
  • Drinking is one of the most common themes in country music. This song is a little different because it combines whimsy and warning. It's an upbeat re-working of a children's tune, but the guy in the song is clearly headed for disaster. He knows that his first drink will lead to many more, and at some point his girl will leave him because of it, but he just can't help it.

    It's not Tracy Byrd's only drinking song: A year earlier he had a #1 hit with "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo."
  • This song was written by the Nashville songwriters Casey Beathard and Kerry Kurt Phillips. Beathard's songs include "I'm Gettin' Stoned" by Eric Church and "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" by Aaron Tippin. Kerry Kurt Phillips worked on a lot of Joe Diffie's songs, including "Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die)" and "Pickup Man."

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