Songs with Wine in their Lyrics

Music is just like wine. Each of us has very different tastes in what we like and dislike. The music that is "best" for one person can easily be "worst" for another people. So it's always fun to see when wine is mentioned in song!

Here are some of the wine songs I've come across. I find myself singing these sometimes while I'm tasting wines. How about you?

A Taste of Honey by Tom Jones
"...honey, much sweeter than wine"

Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan
"Well jog with show folk on the sand
Drink kirschwasser from a shell"
Kirshwasser is a German cherry wine liqueur

Best of My Love by the Eagles
"wasting our time on cheap talk and wine, left us so little to give"

Big Shot by Billy Joel
"You had the Dom Perignon in your hand and the spoon up your nose"

Children's Crusade by Sting
"History's lessons drowned in red wine"

Cracklin' Rosie by Neil Diamond
"Cracklin' Rosie, you're a store-bought woman
You make me sing like a guitar hummin'"
(the lyrics don't explicitly mention wine but this is all about drinking a cheap blush wine)

Daydream by Wave
"Sunshine, strawberry wine
a little taste of leather and lace "

Don't Know Why by Nora Jones
My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Forever

Drink to me only with Thine Eyes (traditional)
"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I'll not ask for wine"

Dust on the Bottle by David Lee Murphy
"Some say good love, well it's like a fine wine
It keeps getting better as the days go by"

Elvira by The Oak Ridge Boys
"Eyes that look like heaven, lips like sherry wine"

Get Down by Gilbert O'Sullivan
"...Once upon a time, I drank a little wine,
was as happy as could be..."

Half a Mile Away by Billy Joel
"Little Geo is a friend of mine
We get some money and we buy a cheap wine
Sit on the corner and have a holiday
Hide the bottle when the cop goes by"

Honky Cat by Elton John
"Living in the city ain't where it's at
It's like trying to find gold in a silver mine
It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine

Hotel California by the Eagles
"Please bring me my wine, he said 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969'" ... and "Pink Champagne on Ice .."

Incense & Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm Clock
"Incense and peppermints and strawberry wine..."

Ironic by Alanis Morrisette
"it's a black fly in your chardonnay"

Joy to the World by Three Dog Night
"Jeremiah was a bull frog.
Was a good friend of mine.
Never understood a single word he said,
but he always had some mighty fine wine."

Killer Queen by Queen
"She keeps Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet"
(Moet et Chandon is a brand of Champagne)

Lady Marmalade by Christina Aguilera etc.
"boy drank all that magnolia wine"
"we drink wine with diamonds in the glass"

Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin
"She never drinks the water, makes you order French Champagne"
(isn't "French Champange" redundant? :) :) )

Louisiana Hot Sauce by Sammy Kershaw
"She's Louisiana Hot Sauce
Hotter than a fireball
Smoother than strawberry wine"

Never Tear Us Apart by INXS
"If I hurt you, I'd make wine from your tears"

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
"Bottle of Red, Bottle of White"

Sweet Eyed Blindness by Laury Nyro
"Don't ask me cause I ain't gonna tell you what I been drinking,
ain't gonna tell you what I been drinking
aint gonna tell you what I been drinking --
Wine of Wonder."

These Are the Days by Van Morrison
"turn water into wine"
Note - I always think of a Mad Magazine parody when I hear this song, for the Lord of the Rings book back in the 1970s. I remember the new lyrics went something like this:
"Hills were filled with orcs and ugly creatures,
Polyester suits they didn't wear ...
Had no Burger Kings or Arthur Treacher's
And they'd never heard of Medicare ..."
Scary that I can still remember that all these years later!

Tin Cup Chalice by Jimmy Buffett
"With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine"

Tiny Bubbles by Don Ho
The entire song is about Champagne :)

Watermelon Crawl by Tracy Byrd
"we got a hunderd (sic) gallons a' sweet red wine,
made from the biggest watermelons on the vine..."

We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off by Jermaine Stewart
"We can dance and party all night, and drink some cherry wine"

Songs with Wine in their Titles

Can you think up any other wine songs? Email Me and let me know!

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