Elle King and Miranda Lambert - Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)
"Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" is a song by American singers Elle King and Miranda Lambert, released on February 26, 2021 as the lead single from King's third studio album Come Get Your Wife. Elle King and Martin Johnson originally wrote "Drunk" back in 2013, along with "America's Sweetheart," which she recorded for her 2015 debut album, Love Stuff.
When Johnson reached out to King about singing on a different project six years later, she took the opportunity to ask the songwriter to help her redo the verses of "Drunk," and happy with the new version, King was going to record and release it herself before having the idea to get Miranda Lambert involved. Elle and Miranda were on tour together for Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars and became really good friends, and she sent Miranda the song in 2019 and asked her if she would sing on it.
The song was recorded prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in both Nashville and New York. The track features a party anthem about extending a wild night out rather than going home.
The song reached number one on the Country Airplay chart in April 2022, becoming the first female duet to reach the top of the charts in almost thirty years following Reba McEntire and Linda Davis' "Does He Love You" in 1993. "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" was certified Platinum by the RIAA on February 25, 2022, recognizing 1,000,000 equivalent units, and the certification was presented as a surprise to King and Lambert during a concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, the Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year and won the Academy of Country Music Award for Video of the Year.
King pointed out that even though "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" is a fun song, it also was an anthem for post-pandemic life: "With everything that we have been through as a country, as a planet, and as a galaxy in the last couple of years, what we need is a freaking anthem about not wanting to be stuck inside."
Elle King, Miranda Lambert Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) Lyrics
I got some money in my pocket, got some trouble on my tail
I can hear the dive's a-knocking, guess I'm heading off the rails
Singing, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
I'm talking 'bout you-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
I got some new best friends forever, see, I met 'em at the bar
Where the whiskey goes down better, when they don't know who you are
Singing, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
I'm talking 'bout you-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, gonna feel this in the morning
Ooh-ooh, 'cause I'm going hard tonight
So bartender, take my keys
What do you want from me?
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home
Not staying in to fight
I'm staying out all night
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home
We don't gotta wait until the weekend
There's always time for jumping off the deep end
So don't you wait up tonight
Don't worry, I'll be fine
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home, yeah
We're in the bathroom gettin' chatty, there's a line out in the hall
Tryna be my sugar daddy, gettin' handsy in the stalls
Singing, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
I'm talking 'bout you-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
You like my gin and tonic kisses, 'cause you know they taste so sweet
And I know you got your missus, but there ain't no one like me
Talkin' 'bout you-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Mmm, I'm talking 'bout you-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, gonna feel this in the morning
Ooh-ooh, 'cause I'm going hard tonight
So bartender, take my keys
What do you want from me?
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home
Not staying in to fight
I'm staying out all night
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home
We don't gotta wait until the weekend
There's always time for jumping off the deep end
So don't you wait up tonight
Don't worry, I'll be fine
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home, yeah
I don't wanna
(Oh-oh-oh) don't wanna go home
(Oh-oh) I don't wanna
(Oh-oh-oh)
So bartender, take my keys
What do you want from me?
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home
Not staying in to fight
I'm staying out all night
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home
We don't gotta wait until the weekend (hell no)
There's always time for jumping off the deep end (let's go)
So don't you wait up tonight
Don't worry, I'll be fine
Baby, I'm drunk, and I don't wanna go home, yeah
I don't wanna
(Oh-oh-oh) don't wanna go home
(Oh-oh) I don't wanna
(Oh-oh-oh) don't wanna go home