"I Like Beer" is a song written and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Tom T. Hall Thomas Hall (May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021), known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "the Storyteller," was an American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more ...

. 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.

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

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, the cost of

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or the effects

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has on him (makes him run his mouth; ostensibly getting him in trouble). In the second verse, he takes joy in embarrassing his

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-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

References

External links

* 1975 singles Tom T. Hall songs Songs written by Tom T. Hall Song recordings produced by Jerry Kennedy 1975 songs Mercury Records singles Songs about beer {{1970s-country-song-stub