Whisky for my men, beer for my horses!

[Gronin]

I was in my vehicle and this country tune came on, all I thought about was a group of Paladins getting back from a hard day of hunting down evil and bringing them to justice then kicking it at some saloon awaiting to go back out to fight evil again. In fact, this is a great tune for Paladins.

apparently you are bang on with this one. Here is what Toby Keith had to say about the song..... (note the bolded section - bold is my emphasis)

When I was a kid I worked for a rodeo company. The old timers who worked the stock and stuff in the back would carry a pint of whiskey in their pocket--they were just old cowboys. They would pull it out and say, "Here's to me, here's to you, we got screwed, so screw you here's to me." They always had some little toast. One was to hold up the bottle for a drink and say, "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses." I kept that in my head a long time thinking I'd write it some day. We did finally, trying to say that maybe it's time that justice gets back into the judicial system. The big posse goes out and catches the bad guys and everybody comes back to lick their wounds, remember the ones they lost and celebrate with the ones that made it back. You raise your glass and say, "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses, bartender." One of those conceptual deals. Soon as we got done writing it I thought man, it'd be cool if we could talk Willie Nelson into singing the Texas verse on that. Obviously he went for it and I think it's the biggest multi-week No. 1 either of us ever had.

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

Hi-

Thanks for the history behind "Whisky for my men, beer for my horses" very cool. Strange, before I joined the military, i was into all that heavy metal, punk crap, but my eyes have seen the glory of Country and western!

Anyway, as a DM, this song is how I envision Paladins to be played in my Campaign.


Scott