Not actually a song about drinking, this one, but a great rousing singalong when drunk - the traditional sea shanty, South Australia. The Pogues did a fine version of it (it was a bonus track on the later CD release of their If I Should Fall From Grace With God album), but I couldn't find that on YouTube. [Aha! Finally found it two years later - here. Audio only, though. There's also this live session recording of it by them.]
However, in the course of my researches, I did turn up this rather wonderful little oddity - Fishermen's Friends, a choir (of fishermen, naturally) from Port Isaac in Cornwall, singing it on the beach.
You can also see them performing this on stage, accompanying folk duo Show of Hands. And, just for good measure, here's the tremendous Aussie finger-picking guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel, doing an instrumental version. Enjoy. And sing along.
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