In this song, Frankie does everything his way. Both songs rose to the top of the pops charts, popular with both young and old, and both were tremendously destructive. The message is what is important. Martin Luther took barroom music of his era, and gave it fairly good spiritual content. Today, Christians think nothing of singing this bar-room music from Martin Luther.
Alcohol abuse is drug abuse, except that the alcohol is legal.
There are also some good country-and western Gospel songs, very uplifting to the soul. Sir Oliver's Song, by Candle, Birdwing Records.