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“Why Don’t We Get Drunk” is a novelty song written and performed by Jimmy Buffett. It was a b-side to “The Great Filling Station Holdup”, the first single from his 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. The song is a fan favorite and, up until the 2007 Bama Breeze tour, was almost always performed at Buffett’s live concerts. Buffett wrote the song under the pseudonym Marvin Gardens, derived from a property on the original Atlantic City version of the Monopoly game board. The song is a parody of standard country music love songs. Buffett states that he made the song “as a total satire and wasn’t even going to put it on the album. We did it foolin’ around in one take. But immediately that song became controversial, and there were jukebox sales.“ ... Read on...