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drinking song

song sung while drinking alcohol
Intangible music_genre Q2165184
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Summary

drinking song is a music genre[1]. It draws 653 Wikipedia views per month (music genre category, ranking #477 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: song type[3]
  • Named after: alcoholic beverage[4], alcohol consumption[5]
  • Subclass of: traditional folk music[6]
  • Commons category: Drinking songs[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Drinking songs[8]
  • Different from: table song[9]

Why It Matters

drinking song has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_drinking-song_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{drinking song}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/drinking-song}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → drinking-songs
    Wikipedia languages → ['cv', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'la', 'nl', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: drinking-songs, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932443|drinking songs (#289932443)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  2. 14w ago · Jeb · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → table song
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: table song"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0290862-pijacke-pisne
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0290862-pijacke-pisne, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → music genre, song type
    Named after → —
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Drinking songs
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2370, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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