Your average Saturday night drinking song---Do not drive after listening! Also, proof positive that drinking during a recording session may not always be advisable...
Ally Piermarini---
Singer, Songwriter
Still at it. Sometimes I can hardly believe it myself...Forty years and thousands of gigs...and I'm still doing it pretty much as I've always done.
Story behind the song
A tongue-in-cheek personal anthem brought about by spending too many years working bars and nightclubs where the drinks were free...
Lyrics
GIMME GIN
NOW YOU ALL KNOW ME TO SOME EXTENT,
I KNOW AT TIMES I SEEM HELL BENT
WHEN I WALK THROUGH THAT BARROOM DOOR,
BELLY UP TO THE BAR AND SAY "GIMME MORE"
JUST GIMME GIN, LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN
DON'T SAY HELLO OR HOW THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN,
JUST LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN.
(CHORUS)
JUST GIMME GIN, LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN
DON'T PREACH TO ME ABOUT THE WAGES OF SIN
JUST LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN.
NOW I KNOW DRINKIN' AIN'T NO DAMN GOOD,
BUT I AIN'T DEAD YET, NOW I KNOCK ON WOOD,
SOMEDAY I MAY QUIT, THAT'S TRUE, BUT HEY, UNTIL THE DAY I DO
JUST GIMME GIN, LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN
JUST KEEP ON POURIN' TILL I SAY WHEN,
JUST LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN
(CHORUS)
I CAN TAKE OR LEAVE IT, HONESTLY---GIN HAS GOT NO HOLD ON ME,
WHAT BRINGS ME BACK HERE EVERY TIME,
I JUST CAN'T QUIT THAT TWIST OF LIME
SO GIMME GIN, LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN
JUST TAKE MY HAND NOW AND GUIDE ME IN,
LEMME AT THE BAR AND GIMME GIN
(CHORUS)
