Really really short songs

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: SharonA
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 02:33 PM

My older brothers used to sing these to me as a wide-eyed, impressionable child:

Here comes Peter Cottontail,
Hoppin' down the bunny trail!
Hippity, hoppity, flop.

Oh, you better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I'm tellin' you why:
Santa Claus is dead.

(Perhaps this explains my years in therapy...)

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Tam the man
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 01:20 PM

Tom Paxton wrote a song well a word really is all about any politction who loses an election

it goes

da da dadadada( Tune on the geetar)

SHIT

Copywrite as well.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: just john
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 01:17 PM

(I see somebody already covered the Smothers Brothers' take on "Hangman.")

A couple years ago, when people were trying to blame the Columbine shootings on Marylin Manson, I listened to the tracks in question and thought they obscured their pro-violence message with extraneous stuff. So, I came up with a 20-second song:

Let's get violent, let's get violent,
Hoo hah, hoo hah
Let's get violent, let's get violent,
Hoo hah, hoo hah
There! Now when anything anywhere goes bad, you can blame it on me!

You can stream the entire song here or download it here.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: *Laura*
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 12:50 PM

"Some songs are very very long,
But this one isn't".

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 12:02 PM

To me way-hay hi-ya!
We'll pay Paddy Doyle for his boots.

To me way-hay hi-ya!
We'll all shave under the chin.

To me way-hay hi-ya!
We'll all drink whisky and gin.

There is more (we'll all throw muck at the cook, we'll all stand cap'n a round etc.) but it was generaly accepted that the tasks performed to a 'bunt' shanty (Normaly furling the sails) could be completed in 3 verses.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 11:47 AM

I wish I was a rock
Sittin on a hill
Would'nt do nothing all day long
but just sit still
I would'nt eat and I would'nt sleep
I would'nt even wash
Just sit still for a thousand years
and rest myself by gosh.

Da da da da da da da, da da da.
etc to the tune of the song.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 11:37 AM

'Twas Friday morn, when we set sail
And we sank to the bottom of the sea.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: aussiebloke
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 11:03 AM

Well is is lonesome, on the prairie, since my old horse - died.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 10:51 AM

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,

O piss on thee, O Christmas tree.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: A cosmology is an autobiography of the universe. :||

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 10:25 AM

a) "The gallant Frigate Araldite, she stuck in Plymouth Sound".
b) "And did those feet, in ancient time, walk upon England's pastures green? ... No"

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Kitty
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 08:51 AM

wow, fun stuff, thanks

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 08:01 AM

Hows about..

Turkey Rhubarb, Turkey Rhubarb
Turkey Rhubarb I sell
I've come here from Turkey
to make you all well
Oh say that you know me
My name it is Dan
And Im the celebrated...
Turkey Rhubarb Man

and I've been known to sing "Rattlin' Roarin' Wullie" in under a minute

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: GUEST,Matai
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 07:52 AM

Dear Heather,
Please walk by me again
with a drink in your hand
and your legs all white
from the Winter
by
Leonard Cohen

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: GUEST,Gadaffi
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 07:09 AM

Stanley Accrington once sang:

Matty Groves, he went out, courting this high class bird,
They're at when Lord Barnard comes home unexpected,
'What the bloody hell's going on here?' he says and stabs Matty in the guts,
'What do you think of your lover boy, now?' he says. But she's cheeky, so he cuts her head off.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: treewind
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 06:28 AM

Hangman, stay your [choke]...

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Wrinkles
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 06:15 AM

Also;
"I left my heart in...arrghhh" thump.

Not exactly in the same catagory, but Peter Cook's "Me Darlin' Flo" deserves an honourable mention ;-)

Me darlin Flo I love you so
especially in yer nightie
when the moonlight flits across yer tits,
ah, jesus christ almighty!

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: mindblaster
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:47 AM

"What Do You Want If You Don't Want Money" sang Adam Faith. I think it has the reputation of being the shortest number 1 single of all time!

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: GUEST,John Barden at work
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:47 AM

"And now, the end is near" - Thud!!

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:44 AM

Nyaah nyaaah na-nyaaah nyaah

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: GUEST,Declan
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:23 AM

There's always the Dead Man's Blues:

"I didn't wake up this mornin'".

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: GUEST, Hamish
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:20 AM

In this multi-media age
Social scientists reckon
The average attention span
Is about fifteen seconds.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:45 AM

Bill D posted it here, but I think I knew it before Bill posted it, so it's fair for me to include it here:

The Rivers of Nebraska

We crossed the wide Platte,
We forded the Platte,
We swam the Platte,
And followed the Platte.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:45 AM

Tom Paxton's ' The Ballad of Spiro Agnew '

I'll sing of Spiro Agnew and all the things he's done.

eric

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: sapper82
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:01 AM

When my turn at a singroung I stand up and sing:-
"Come listen to me and I'll sing you a song,
Of the truths of Tony Blair."

Then sit down again.

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 03:37 AM

Don't know about songs, but on the subject of short plays, I reckon my rewrite of Becket's "Waiting For Godot" is unlikely to be shortened...
Act one, Scene One: Enter Godot...

Subject: RE: Really really short songs
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 11:26 PM

Short Songs/Parodies

Subject: Really really short songs
From: Kitty
Date: 24 Apr 05 - 11:10 PM

I know I read something here about very short ballads or songs. Can't find it again even with the search.    I have a few, and am looking for more. For example:

Are you going to Scarboro Fair.....no

Unforgettable.....

Can you help with others?

Thanks bunches!!
k