My favorite Tom T. Hall tune...

...now at Willie's Place, Sirius Ch. 64: "In some of my songs I have casually mentioned, the fact that I like to drink beer...this little song is more to the point, so roll out the barrel and lend me your ears, I like beer...it makes me a jolly good fellow, I like beer..."
I know Tom T. wrote some really deep and thoughtful numbers, but yeah, that novelty-ish tune is my favorite. More than a decade after I first heard it — on Bryan-College Station's 98.3 KORA, the station that introduced me to so much great old country I'd never heard before — it still makes me grin, as I crank it up and sing along. Even my best friend got a kick out of it...and he HATES country music. No small feat, that...