Beers Ago
title: "Beers Ago" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2012-singles", "2011-songs", "toby-keith-songs", "show-dog-universal-music-singles", "songs-written-by-toby-keith", "songs-written-by-bobby-pinson", "songs-about-beer"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beers_Ago" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox song"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Beers Ago |
| cover | BeersAgo.jpg |
| type | single |
| artist | Toby Keith |
| album | Clancy's Tavern |
| released | |
| genre | Country |
| length | (album version) |
| (radio edit) | |
| label | Show Dog-Universal Music |
| writer | Toby Keith |
| Bobby Pinson | |
| producer | Toby Keith |
| prev_title | Red Solo Cup |
| prev_year | 2011 |
| next_title | I Like Girls That Drink Beer |
| next_year | 2012 |
| :: |
| name = Beers Ago | cover = BeersAgo.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Toby Keith | album = Clancy's Tavern | released = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Country | length = (album version) (radio edit) | label = Show Dog-Universal Music | writer = Toby Keith Bobby Pinson | producer = Toby Keith | prev_title = Red Solo Cup | prev_year = 2011 | next_title = I Like Girls That Drink Beer | next_year = 2012 "Beers Ago" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in March 2012 as the third and final single from his 2011 album Clancy's Tavern. Keith co-wrote the song with Bobby Pinson. A remixed version by DJ Jason Nevins also appears on the deluxe edition of Keith's sixteenth studio album Hope on the Rocks, released the following year. It is Keith's final Top 10 hit before his death in 2024.
Content
The song is a reminiscence about the narrator's teenage years, saying that they still seem like yesterday "[e]ven though / That was fourteen hundred and fifty-two beers ago".
Critical reception
Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song three and a half stars out of five, writing that "his rapid-fire lyrics fit like pieces to a puzzle, with smart rhymes and imaginative references that captivate." Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B+ grade, saying that "there's a vibrancy to it because of Keith's skill as a vocalist."
Chart performance
"Beers Ago" debuted at number 56 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of March 24, 2012.
::data[format=table] | Chart (2012) | Peak position | |---|---| ::
Year-end charts
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| Chart (2012) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Country Songs (Billboard) | 47 |
| :: |
Certifications
References
References
- Conaway, Alanna. (March 18, 2012). "Toby Keith, 'Beers Ago' – Lyrics Uncovered". Taste of Country.
- Dukes, Billy. (March 12, 2012). "Toby Keith, 'Beers Ago' – Song Review". Taste of Country.
- Coyne, Kevin John. (March 21, 2012). "Single Review: Toby Keith, "Beers Ago"". Country Universe.
- Morris, Edward. (March 17, 2012). "Charts: Dierks Bentley's "Home," Lady A's Own the Night Own the Heights". [[Country Music Television]].
- (2012). "Best of 2012: Country Songs".
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