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 |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 24 Apr 05 - 11:26 PM Short Songs/Parodies |
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: 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: 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: 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:
We crossed the wide Platte, We forded the Platte, We swam the Platte, And followed the Platte. |
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: 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: McGrath of Harlow Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:44 AM Nyaah nyaaah na-nyaaah nyaah |
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: 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: 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: treewind Date: 25 Apr 05 - 06:28 AM Hangman, stay your [choke]... |
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: 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: 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: Kitty Date: 25 Apr 05 - 08:51 AM wow, fun stuff, thanks |
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: 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 joe_f@verizon.net ||: A cosmology is an autobiography of the universe. :|| |
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: 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: 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: 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: *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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST Date: 25 Apr 05 - 02:37 PM The end |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: NH Dave Date: 25 Apr 05 - 02:42 PM Ill submit one that the RNZAF folks used to sing about the British, I'll sing you a song That's not very long All Pomes are bastards! This was ammended in our honor with the last line, You Yanks can't play cricket! Dave |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Malc R Date: 25 Apr 05 - 02:52 PM a bluesy type number "I woke up yesterday morning...." stop - start again "I woke up this morning..." stop - start again "If I wake up tomorrow morning .. that'll be three in a row" Mal |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Severn Date: 25 Apr 05 - 03:04 PM As far as actual traditional ones, I always loved this one (to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman"): Oh, MacTavish is dead and his brother don't know it His brother is dead and MacTavish don't know it They're both of them dead And they're in the same bed And there's neither one knows that the other is dead It was Frank Warner I first heard sing it, if memory serves. I always thoughtit would be the perfect thing to tack onto the end of a long instrumental medley. |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: frogprince Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:15 PM Heard live on television, long years ago, sung by Carl Sandburg: "Papa loved mamma; mamma loved men; mamma's in the graveyard; Papa's in the pen". Using it as part of a longer song is a sacrilige, dammit! |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Bill D Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:26 PM Michael, row the boat ashore, For I fear I've lost my oar. |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Bill D Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:27 PM "You done stole my wiiiiiiiffeeee.....you hoss thief" |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Herga Kitty Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:30 PM The keeper would a shooting go But on the way he dropped his bow. It's true my love has listed to 45 degrees. Did you ever see a wild goose sailing over the ocean? - no Kitty |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Kitty Date: 25 Apr 05 - 04:40 PM These are just getting better and better the other Kitty |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: PoohBear Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:20 PM On the bosum of a young abigail Was written the price of her tail. And upon her behind, for the use of the blind, Was the same information in Braille Courtesy of The Corries. PB |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: kendall Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:29 PM My Bonnie leaned over the gas tank It's contents she wanted to see She lit up a match to assist her Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: GUEST,Jim I Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:34 PM I you were the only girl in the world And I was the only boy Nothing... |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Micca Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:37 PM " I'll sing you one oh" Oh No you wont you know "Were you ever on the Congo River?" No " Somewhere the sun is shining away up in the sky " but its pi**ing down here " Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. For I have loved you well and long, Delighting in your company. Greensleeves was all my joy Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, Until she dyed them Chocolate brown" |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Scotus Date: 25 Apr 05 - 10:12 PM At Auchtermuchty Festival about 9 years ago, during the last night final mass sing I started 'Oh dae you see yon high hill, a' covered wi' snaw'. John Watt seated in the front row shouted "NO" Jack Beck |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Cap't Bob Date: 26 Apr 05 - 12:17 AM Mason Williams: Them Hors D'Oeuvres: How about them Hors D'oeuvres, ain't they sweet? Little piece of cheese and little piece of meat! Cap't Bob |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Ernest Date: 26 Apr 05 - 02:18 AM by Mark Gillespie, as far as I know: Here`s a little song it`s not too long It`s almost finished and now it`s gone |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Apr 05 - 02:44 AM Let every man so pitch his somg, Then start again, he's got it wrong..... Bluebells are blue bells, bluebells are blue. Bluebells are blue because blue bells are blue. second verse, same as the first, little bit louder, little bit worse BLUEBELLS ARE BLUE BELLS, BLUEBELLS ARE BLUE. BLUEBELLS ARE BLUE BECAUSE BLUE BELLS ARE BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEE!! (blame Lady P for that one.....) LTS |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Sandy Paton Date: 26 Apr 05 - 02:46 AM Has anyone posted this 'un? My sweetheart's a mule in the mines; I drive her without any lines. On the bumper I sit, I chew and I spit All over my sweetheart's behind. Or this one that I learned from John Greenway in Boulder, Colorado, 1959: Pa didn't raise no corn this year, Pa didn't raise no termaters. He had bad luck with the cabbage crop, But, oh, my God, them 'taters! Sixty cent pertaters! Right nigh six-bit pertaters! He had bad luck with the cabbage crop, But, oh, my God, them 'taters! And Jeannie Robertson sang this one for me (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1958): Maggie, Maggie, Come and kiss your Sandy. Come awa' and spoon wi' me In beneath this bramble tree. Oh, Maggie, Maggie, Ye set my heart on fire. If it wasnae for my wife I'd mak' ye Mrs. McIntyre! And, finally, from Mike Meyers, in England, 1957: Oh the black cat piddled in the white cat's eye, The white cat said "Cor Blimey!" The black cat said, "You silly sod, You shouldn't stand behind me!" Enuff, already! |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Mark Cohen Date: 26 Apr 05 - 03:15 AM Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, One little kiss, and Felina, goodbye Or a variant from o'er the ocean: Out in the West Irish county of Mayo I fell in love with a Mayonnaise girl Alan Sherman had a bunch on his "My Son the Folksinger" album--longer than two lines, but still fun: I gave my love a cherry, it had no stone I gave my love a chicken, it had no bone I gave my love a baby, and then you see My love got very angry and she said to me "I didn't mind the cherry, without the stone I didn't mind the chicken, without the bone But when you give a baby, there's just one thing You oughta give at least an engagement ring!" Jascha got a bottle of Geritol, Geritol, Geritol Jascha got a bottle of Geritol And he knocked a hole in the wall That's all No wall Oh, I'm Melvin Rose of Texas And my friends all call me Tex When I lived in old New Mexico They used to call me Mex When I lived in old Kentucky They called me Old Kentuck I was born in old Shamokin Which is why they call me Melvin Rose Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: matai Date: 26 Apr 05 - 03:22 AM Nobody has come up with this so far day is done gone the sun --- -- --- --- -- --- --- -- --- all is well safely rest god is nigh Some kind of salute isn't it and can you fill in the missing words? |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: Mark Cohen Date: 26 Apr 05 - 03:26 AM It's words that have been put to the bugle call "Taps": Day is done Gone the sun From the lakes, from the hills, from the sky All is well Safely rest God is nigh We learned it summer camp in Pennsylvania back in the 60s. Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: George Papavgeris Date: 26 Apr 05 - 04:12 AM The good ship Agamemnon - sank |
Subject: RE: Really really short songs From: GUEST,scouse Date: 26 Apr 05 - 04:57 AM Then there's.... I went down to Sammy's Bar...It was closed!! Tom Pierce,Tom Pierce,Lend I your grey Mare...No!! Were have you been all day Henry my Son...Out!! As Aye, Phil |
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