Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hunt Date: 04 Nov 09 - 08:05 AM I yanked my doodle it was dandy! ________________ She wore no jewels , nor costly diamonds She wore no clothes - no, bugger all But a leather G-sting with studs upon it And round her shoulders was a rubber shawl _____________ |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger Date: 04 Nov 09 - 10:17 AM (To the tune of Bushes and Briars) It was on the fifth of August On March the eighteenth day. Wha....? |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Date: 04 Nov 09 - 11:04 AM Will ye gang to the Hielans, Leezie Lyndsay ? No. (Will these do, MtheGM ?) How about : Are ye going to Scarborough Fair ? No. Came ye o'er from France ? No. Came ye not from Newcastle ? No. Will you come to the bower ? No. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion Date: 04 Nov 09 - 11:23 AM Bryn - If you had read the thread before adding to it, as is generally considered courteous around here, you would not have repeated one of my postings — particularly one so prominently placed as the first addition to the thread. Why has the fact that you failed to do so motivated you to be rude and aggressive to me? I ask in genuine puzzlement. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Acorn4 Date: 04 Nov 09 - 12:06 PM Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds are currently touting this one; All around my hat I will wear the green willow All around my hat for a twelvemonth and a day, And if anybody asks me the reason that I'm wearing it, I'll say mind your own business, It's my f***ing hat! |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Barry Morty Date: 04 Nov 09 - 02:22 PM The Blues version of Bob Knight's son's song: Well, I woke up this morning Went to write down this song But then I turned my television on |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Hrothgar Date: 04 Nov 09 - 10:33 PM There was a wild colonial boy But the coppers shot him. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Judy Cook Date: 04 Nov 09 - 10:58 PM Honey, you're a girl who likes whale meat That's an important sign. Funny, I've got nine tons of whale meat Small whale, wasn't it. *** The hills are alive....aaaarrrrghhhhh **** This is your birthday song It isn't very long. ***** |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Susan A-R Date: 04 Nov 09 - 11:02 PM Hmmm, posted a bunch of stuff earlier today, but must have punched the wrong key at the end. Outside outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend indeed Inside inside of a dog, it's much too dark, too dark to read. A baby sardine saw his first submarine and was scared to look through the peephole "Come, come come" said the sardine's Mum. "It's only a tin full of people. To the tune of "God Save the King" The King he had a date, he stayed out very late, he was a King The Queen she paced the floor, she paced 'til half past four, she meet him at the door God Save the King. I grabbed a tulip, a big yellow tulip and you grabbed a big red rose My house was burning, the green house was burning, and there was no time for clothes Nest day the jurry condemned us with fury for being so exposed. I said "judge quit your stalling, the ptals are falling from his tulip and my red rose. Slithery Dee came out of the sea, he caught all the others, but he won't catch me. Stupit old Slithery Dee. He caught all the others, but he won't catch . . . SLURP I could go on, but . . |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: stallion Date: 05 Nov 09 - 02:49 AM Burl Ives Hypocondriac song circa 1950's recording(awful spelling I know!) in one breath Oh me legs and me liver and me lites and me lungs they're failing me they're failing me my breath is bad my had is sad I think I'm going crazy |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Date: 05 Nov 09 - 04:06 AM Dear MtheGM, My sincere and unreserved apology if that is how it came over. I intended my most recent post very much 'tongue in cheek', and I am truly sorry for having offended you. Regards, Bryn |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman Date: 05 Nov 09 - 06:40 AM Arise, arise, Mary Hamilton Arise and tell to me What thou hast done with thy wee babe I saw and heard weep by thee? Oh, there she is. Never mind. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,*Laura* Date: 05 Nov 09 - 06:45 AM "Some songs are very very long, But this one isn't..." |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Leadfingers Date: 05 Nov 09 - 07:31 AM Susan - Slitherydee is another Shel Siverstein ! (ALWAYS credit your source if you can ) And MY Amphetrite short is even shorter than the previous - The Gallant Frigate Amphetrite sank |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion Date: 05 Nov 09 - 08:17 AM Dear Bryn: Of course you meant no offence. In return please excuse my tetchiness — must have had a headache or something. The best of us has these moments of touchy idiocy. Really best regards Michael |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Date: 05 Nov 09 - 08:28 AM Not a problem, MtheGM - everyone has a bad day now and again. Kind regards, Bryn |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Ian Gill Date: 05 Nov 09 - 04:19 PM Taffy Thomas used to do this one years ago, he reckoned it was the shortest sentence in the Bible ; 'Adam ad 'em'. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,iancarterb Date: 05 Nov 09 - 04:34 PM My recall of Burl Ives' Hypochondriac Song: Oh my liver, my lights, my legs and my lungs They're paining me, they're paining me. My heart is sad and my breath is bad, And I think I'm going crazy. Carter |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: stallion Date: 05 Nov 09 - 07:55 PM guess I folked it up! |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:33 AM The folk process is ... Never having to admit you forgot the words. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Clontarf83 Date: 08 Nov 09 - 01:15 AM I will sing you a song that's not too long Policemen have no fathers (to the tune of the girl i left behind me) (or politicians have no fathers) or mba's etc.. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hunt Date: 08 Nov 09 - 07:17 AM Clontarf83 - I'm sure that's I'll sing you a song and it's not very long All coppers are bastards I'll sing you another just like the other All coppers are bastards (not necessarily my personal feelings - just how I remember it from when I was involved in CND actions in the 60s!) |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Steve Wellcome Date: 19 Mar 14 - 12:25 PM I was standing on the corner, minding my own business, When along came a man and tied his horse to me. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: ChuckP Date: 19 Mar 14 - 12:47 PM I eat my peas with honey I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on the knife. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger Date: 19 Mar 14 - 06:33 PM In my younger days in Portsmouth, we used to think it was hilarious to sing (to the tune of "Bless 'em All") Goodbye horse, goodbye horse I was saying goodbye to my horse And as I was saying goodbye to my horse, I was saying goodbye to my horse. Has anyone else come across this jewel of oral tradition? Tradsinger |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert Date: 19 Mar 14 - 06:50 PM I talk to the trees, that's why they took me away. I'm a little bit peculiar in an onion patch. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,DTM Date: 19 Mar 14 - 06:51 PM I've written a new song! (to tune of The Wild Rover) "I've been a procrastinator for manys a year And I ........." Och, I finish it tomorrow. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert Date: 19 Mar 14 - 06:57 PM God save our old tom cat feed him on bread and fat God save our cat. Then there is Tom Paxton's "Song for a lost election" which has a great musical introduction building up to a crescendo and the lyric is one word "SHIT!". |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tug the Cox Date: 19 Mar 14 - 08:22 PM 'I didn't get to sleep last night blues.' |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bugsy Date: 19 Mar 14 - 09:46 PM Simon & Garfunkel Hello Darknes my old friend I've walked into the wall again CHeers Gugsy |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Joe_F Date: 19 Mar 14 - 09:58 PM O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, Oh, piss on thee, O Christmas tree. If I had the wings of an angel, Wouldn't I look silly? |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert Date: 20 Mar 14 - 06:41 AM To the tune of two lovely black eyes... Oh Grannie's red drawers Oh Grannie's red drawers There's a hole in the middle so Granny can piddle Oh Grannie's red drawers |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Mike Yates Date: 20 Mar 14 - 07:24 AM I'm surprised that the following, recorded in the 1920's by the Carter Brothers and Son (if my memory serves me right), has not been included so far: I had a dog and his name was Rover When he died, he died all over. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Jon Heslop Date: 20 Mar 14 - 09:09 AM Tradsinger, There is a rendition of it the Dave Williams album, "You're On Nipper!. Forest Tracks FT2CD 201. The late Dave Williams was one of the local heroes of the Southampton/South Hampshire area in my early days in folk music,late 1960's and that song was often one of his throwaway items if he couldn't think of anything else to do, which was very rarely. My favourite short song has to be a version of "Little Sir Hugh" "Can I have my ball back, mister?" |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: JennieG Date: 20 Mar 14 - 05:51 PM From the pen of the late prolific Irving Berlin, with slight amendments: "I'll be loving you......sideways.......!" |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Guest Date: 20 Mar 14 - 09:16 PM Just in case nobody has submitted it. The gallant frigate Amphitrite Sank in Plymouth Sound |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey guest Date: 20 Mar 14 - 09:33 PM Leprosy as sung by Mike Agranoff to the tune of "Yesterday". Leprosy. All my skin is falling off of me. I'm not half the man I used to be... |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bill D Date: 20 Mar 14 - 10:07 PM tune Ruben, Ruben ♫Why do Scotsmen leave the country? Why do Scotsmen emigrate? They are following the whiskey That is leaving crate by crate.♫ |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: eftifino Date: 21 Mar 14 - 03:19 AM Victor Borge: 'I will now play 'The Minute Waltz' and it won't take long.' Kenneth Horne: "In this show, Maria de Los Angeles and Lonnie Donnegan will sing a duet entitled 'Oh, My beloved Father's a Dustman" |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,eldergirl Date: 21 Mar 14 - 05:11 AM Where have you been all the day, Billy boy, Billy boy? Where have you been all the day, my Billy boy? I've been lurking all the day On the old Mudcat Cafe, And the threads all tickled my fancy, Oh my charming Billy boy. ;-D |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger Date: 21 Mar 14 - 05:24 AM Then there's Frank Ifield's famous song: "I remember you ........ you bastard" |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert Date: 21 Mar 14 - 05:39 AM My Dad used to sing Terranay coray, terranay chah cuchenay coray, pukkeray pah. I don't know what it means or how to spell it. I guess he got it from someone when he worked in The Docks; maybe an Indian. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Phil Edwards Date: 21 Mar 14 - 07:37 AM Not quite the same thing, but Peter Blegvad's song The Only Song goes like this: Imagine a world where this was the only song And against your will You had to sit and listen to it all day long Until it made you ill The second verse goes like this: Imagine a world where this was the only song And against your will You had to sit and listen to it all day long Until it made you ill The third verse... you get the idea. I saw the comedian Rory McGrath once as part of a semi-jokey C&W act, I forget what they were called. They had one song which had one of those rather mumbly "when I wake up with my love beside me" openings... "And I lean to her and kiss her And her kiss is warm and tender And it feels just like the first time And she opens her eyes wide And she says Who... The fuck are you? Who the fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck are you? Who the fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck..." It ended there. |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST Date: 21 Mar 14 - 11:31 AM Bill D - I think Scotsmen would be following the whisky (not the whiskey)!!! |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST Date: 21 Mar 14 - 12:42 PM Oh tobaccy pipes, tobaccy pipes, tobaccy pipes & porter; You've often heard a longer song, You'll never hear one shorter. From the singing of Séamus Ennis. Air: Waxie's Dargle |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,LynnH Date: 21 Mar 14 - 02:29 PM What a local bus ride can be good for.............. "The king has been a prisoner A prisoner long in Spain - And they can keep him! Hello darkness my old friend - haven't paid the bill again / snow on the cables again! Through bushes and through briars I lately made my way - I'm all scratched up and my clothes are ruined When they poured across the border I was ordered to surrender - I obeyed True Thomas lay on Huntly Bank - Stoned as usual Did you ever hear of brave Earl Brand? -No. Lady Margaret sat in her castle tower, sewing a silken seam She looked out through the high window She saw the fog was thick |
Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST Date: 22 Mar 14 - 08:02 AM A bar of soap and an old French letter A case of syphilis that won't get better And when I pee it stings These foolish things Remind me of you. |
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