Roddy McCorley - I'm not that sure that it's a good song, though lots of Irish pub regulars seem to think so, but I'm sick of it either way.

Any novelty song that I've heard more than five times, especially the one about the girl who can't find a husband because all the guys in town are her father's sons. I hate it so much that I've never even bothered to find out what its title is. Novelty songs are basically musical jokes. How many times can you hear a joke and still have it be funny?

Man of Constant Sorrow - A great song but dreadfully overexposed courtesy of "Oh! Brother...". I personally know three people that wouldn't have been caught dead singing a bluegrass song a few years ago that have it in their repertoires now. And their versions really stink. Before anybody is allowed to learn that song they should be required by law to sing a dozen other bluegrass songs just to prove that they're not surf musicians that think it's cool to know one bluegrass/oldtime song.

Bruce