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1. The Dubliners, later Thin Lizzy, and then Metallica sang, "Mush-a ring dumb-a do dumb-a da / Whack for my daddy-o, whack for my daddy-o / There's whiskey in the" what?
2. What American hard rock band featuring lead vocalist David Lee Roth recorded the song "Take Your Whiskey Home"?
3. This song was written by Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove, first recorded by David Allan Coe, made a hit by George Jones, and further popularized by Chris Stapleton. It opens: "I used to spend my nights out in a barroom. / Liquor was the only love I've known. / But you rescued me from reachin' for the bottom / And brought me back from being too far gone."
What's the title?
4. "We found him with his face down in the pillow / With a note that said, 'I'll love her till I die.' / And when we buried him beneath the willow, / The angels sang a whiskey lullaby."
Who sang this duet with Brad Paisley?
5. "Whiskey man's my friend; he's with me nearly all the time. / He always joins me when I drink, and we get on just fine. / Nobody has ever seen him, I'm the only one. / Seemingly I must be mad, insanity is fun."
This song was written by John Entwistle, the bassist for what popular British rock group?
6. "Jack Daniel's, old number seven / Tennessee, sour-mashed whiskey / He used to be so frisky."
What "killer" rockabilly pianist sang these lines?
7. Blues musician Willie Dixon wrote what song about whiskey? In it, he hypothesized what he would do if he "was a diving duck" and sang, "Whiskey and beers they don't make me drunk / These blues are gonna make me pack my trunk."
8. What southern rock group famous for "Freebird" recorded a song called "Whiskey Rock A Roller"?
9. What country music star, also known as "Bocephus," got "whiskey bent and hell bound"?
10. What "shock rock" artist, whose first solo album was "Welcome to My Nightmare," sang: "Gimme lace and whiskey / Mama's home remedy / Double indemnity / Fills me with ecstasy / La-aa-aace and whiskey."
11. The song's lyrics don't mention whisky, but the title does.
What jazz singer, born Eleanora Fagan and nicknamed "Lady Day," sang "Riffin' the Scotch"?
12. "Oh, she give me moonshine whiskey, / Oh, she give me southern love, / Deep in the heart of Texas, / There beneath the stars above."
What singer and songwriter, known for his eclectic music in the genres of Irish folk, rock, jazz, soul, and blues, recorded this song on his 1971 album "Tupelo Honey"?
13. David Allen Coe sang, "____, if you please / Knock me to my knees."
What brand of Tennessee whiskey, the top-selling American whiskey in the world, is missing from the blank?
14. Gillian Welch sang a song about "nowhere man and the ___" what?
15. Guy Clark wrote a song about the whiskey of this American writer, who was the author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea."
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