Songs for Closing Time

[disneychrista]

What are some good songs to play at a bar at Closing Time, other than the obvious Semisonic - Closing Time.

 

[Mizzoufan]

I don't go to bars do they play special songs at closing time?

I googled and this list popped up

http://locationlocationlocation.typ..._locatio/2012/07/great-bar-closing-songs.html

 

[PrincessShmoo]

What are some good songs to play at a bar at Closing Time, other than the obvious Semisonic - Closing Time.

One For My Baby (and One More For the Road) - various artists including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Fred Astaire

Good-night, Ladies - an oldie

 

[denisem]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

Depressing enough to clear everyone out...

 

[scrapquitler]

One place we frequent typically plays the cupid shuffle at the end of the night, everyone dances and then goes home.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I Did it My Way, Sinatra. First line is, "And now, the end is near...".
So Long, Farewell

 

[penn19]

I don't know. Back in the day, in middle school, if you heard either Freebird or Stairway to Heaven you knew the dance was over.

 

[AustinTink]

One of my college friends used to dj in a club. Back in the late 80s, after a night of dance music, he would always end the night with AC/DC's shook me all night long. It always ended the night with a bang.

 

[NFLDERS]

What are some good songs to play at a bar at Closing Time, other than the obvious Semisonic - Closing Time.

My Way by Frank Sinatra


http://www.metrolyrics.com/my-way-lyrics-frank-sinatra.html

Oops.. missed it upthread, sorry.

 

[low-key]

Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time
One, two, one, two, three go

All the girls all get prettier at closing time
Oh, they all begin to look like movie stars
All the girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place it puts a glow on every face
Of the fallen angels of the back street bars

If I could rate them on a scale from one to ten
I'm looking for a nine but eight could work right in
Few more drinks and I might slip to five or even four
But when tomorrow morning comes and I wake up with a number one
I swear I'll never do it anymore

All the girls all get prettier at closing time
Oh, they all begin to look like movie stars
All the girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place it puts a glow on every face
Of the fallen angels of the back street bars

I don't mean to criticize the girls at all
'Cause I'm no Robert Redford even overhauled
But we all picture in our minds a girl that looks just right
Now ain't it funny, ain't it strange the way a man's opinions change
When he starts to face that lonely night

All the girls all get prettier at closing time
Oh, they all begin to look like movie stars
All the girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place it puts a glow on every face
Of the fallen angels of the back street bars
The fallen angels of the back street bars


Read more: Mickey Gilley - Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 

[ChickieToo]

My friends have a finished basement when they have a complete Irish pub and a dance floor they bought off a rental place--they even have the glitterball!.

They have a few parties a year down there and my girlfriend always plays "Last Dance" by Donna Summer when she wants to wrap it up. Then she complains that we won't leave...but that's another story!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

Depressing enough to clear everyone out...

There was a DJ in STL that always made that claim on the air. Want to get rid of guests at your party? Play Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald LOL

One place I used to frequent played "Back On The Road Again" by REO Speedwagon at closing. Another played David Allen Coe's "You Never Call Me By My Name" and the whole bar would sing along. They never played country music otherwise

 

[adrienne21snow]

Happy Trails To You by Dale Evans and Roy Rogers. That'll get rid of 'em

 

[RDR_BU]

An empty glass
That last cigarette
It's closing time
And I'm drunk again

But somehow I'll make it home
And cry myself to sleep
That's how my day ends
Every night for me

Every night I'm in some bar
Pouring whiskey on a heart that's on fire
Forgetting you is no easy thing
Each night for me always ends the same

With an empty glass
That last cigarette
It's closing time
And I'm drunk again

But somehow I'll make it home
And cry myself to sleep
That's how my day ends
Every night for me

Every night I'm in some bar
Pouring whiskey on a heart that's on fire
Forgetting you is no easy thing
Each night for me always ends the same

With an empty glass
That last cigarette
It's closing time
And I'm drunk again

But somehow I'll make it home
And cry myself to sleep
That's how my day ends
Every night for me.
Yeah, that's how my day ends
Every night for me

 

[willowsnn3]

"The Party's Over" by Willie Nelson

Turn out the lights
The party's over
They say that
All good things must end
Call it tonight
The party's over
And tomorrow starts
The same old thing again

But the crazy crazy party
Never seen so many people
Laughing dancing
Look at you you're having fun
But look at me
I'm almost cryin'
That don't keep her love from dyin'
Misery cause for me the party's over
Turn out the lights...

Once I had a love undyin'
I didn't keep it but I tried
Life for me was just one party
And then another
I broke her heart so many times
I had to have my parting wife
I had to have my party
Why broke her heart so many times
But one day she said
Sweetheart the party's over
Turn out the lights...

 

[scrapquitler]

I don't know. Back in the day, in middle school, if you heard either Freebird or Stairway to Heaven you knew the dance was over.

I was going to say the same thing!!

 

[tvguy]

Hit the Road Jack. Ray Charles.

 

[mmouse37]

Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company....M-I-C see ya real soon K-E-Y why, because we like you M-O-U-S-E

MJ

 

[disneychrista]

Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company....M-I-C see ya real soon K-E-Y why, because we like you M-O-U-S-E

MJ

That would be AWESOME! for a bunch of Rugby Players.

Keep the ideas coming...

 

[Disneylover99]

So Long, Farewell - From "The Sound of Music"

There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say, "Cuckoo"
Cuckoo, cuckoo
Regretfully they tell us cuckoo, cuckoo
But firmly they compel us
To say, "Goodbye", to you
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say "Goodbye", goodbye
I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye