“Take Your Whiskey Home” is the 7th track on Women and Children First.
This song was a leftover from the band’s club days that Eddie didn’t care for anymore, but that the rest of the band insisted be on the album.
Guitar World raves: “This throbbing, midtempo cut is distinctive in the DLR-era VH catalog for how positively restrained the band sounds. Roth sticks mainly to his lower register, floating somewhere between singing and speaking the lyrics, while Eddie weaves a snakelike single note riff around the rhythm section’s incessant and steady thud. But this is Van Halen, of course, so there are still a few fireworks: one nimble and bluesy acoustic guitar and vocal intro, and two quick but deadly EVH solo spots.”
David Lee Roth’s hand-written lyrics:
