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Subject: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Bearheart Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:12 PM Looking for songs that are ironical or comical in nature. Like "The Grey Mare"/"Roger the Miller", or "The Ploughboy and the Cockney", or "Shift and Spin", or "The Laird o Drum". I have about 23 in my collection so far. Your favorites? Thanks Bekki |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Bearheart Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:13 PM PS I tried doing a search but the keyword I used didn't work... |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Blowzabella Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:35 PM Not sure if it's what you are looking for but my favourite is 'I Hold Your Hand in Mine' - Tom Lehrer |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:41 PM Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now .... and the ladies you will wow.. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Teresa Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:54 PM Ah, one of my favorites is "Not Quite But Nearly", which you can find on Leon rosselson's Rosselsongs collection. I'm sorry I can't post lyrics; can't find them, and my mind is like a sieve when it comes to them ;( But the gist is basically that the narrator would do outrageous things for his beloved ... and lists some very outrageous ones indeed ... "well, not quite, but nearly." :) Teresa |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Jun 04 - 07:00 PM TAKE HER IN YOUR ARMS by Andy M. Stewart is a comical song about an inept lover which is also rather touching, in my opinion. IN SPITE OF OURSELVES is another good 'un. John Prine sings it with Iris DeMent. They alternate verses and then they both sing the chorus. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Leadfingers Date: 09 Jun 04 - 07:15 PM ANY of Lehrer is GOOD - Old and Grey , Hold Your Hand , and a stack more I cant think of this time of night ! |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Blackcatter Date: 09 Jun 04 - 07:16 PM Monty Python - Sit On My Face. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Amos Date: 09 Jun 04 - 08:29 PM I hold your hand in mine, dear I press it to my lips. I take a healthy bite, dear Of your precious fingertips. The night you died, I cut it off I really don't know why!! For every time I kiss it, I Get bloodstains on my tie.... Tom Lehrer, "I Hold Your Hand in Mine". See also his Wiener Schnitzel Waltz, which always gets a guffaw. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Soundcatcher Date: 09 Jun 04 - 09:12 PM My two current favourites are "Don't get married girls" by Leon Rosselson and "Belle of Barnstaple" by Jeremy Taylor. On a traditional note I think "A sailor courted A farmer's daughter" (The farmer's daughter) takes a bit of beating. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Bearheart Date: 09 Jun 04 - 09:32 PM Thanks--these are good starts. I guess I need to get serious about looking for Leon Rosselson's stuff-- most of what I've heard has been other people recording his stuff-- like Les Barker... Most of my personal interest lies in traditional stuff, but hopefully people will keep this going? Bekki |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: alanabit Date: 10 Jun 04 - 03:01 AM Tom Lehrer's "Masochism Tango" is a love song of sorts and I'll go along with Leadfinger's comment that just about any Tom Lehrer is good. Paddy Roberts was nowhere near as talented, but I still like his song "Love in a Mist", which contains the lines: I'm cast in a spell by the perfume of yellow mimosa I'm drugged by you charms and the fact that our arms are entwined But somehow I feel the reason you're stealing closer Is that if you let go you'll fall on your small behind |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Billy Weeks Date: 10 Jun 04 - 07:49 AM She's big and she's beautiful She's fat and she's fair Like the buttercups and daisies That grow in the air When she said she'd marry I It made I feel big I'd rather have Sarey Than farmer's fat pig - extract from'Sarey', sung in 1930s by Albert Richardson of 'Fat Sow' notoriety. Might not go down all that well in modern company. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 10 Jun 04 - 10:02 AM One of the best songs in this genre has to be "Waltz of the Wallflowers" by a duo called Small Potatoes! It is a superbly crafted and performed song. It describes two lonely people who go to a dance and spot each other across the room. Absolutely great! It has to be heard to be believed. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Dave Hanson Date: 10 Jun 04 - 10:18 AM Cushie Butterfield, She's a big lass and a bonny lass, And she likes her beer, And they call her Cushie Butterfield, And I wish she was 'ere. eric |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE BACHELOR'S WARNING (Dominick Murray) From: Blackcatter Date: 10 Jun 04 - 10:28 AM Well this isn't quite on topic, but it's close, and I don't think that many people know it. It was written and performed by Celtic Thunder. THE BACHELOR'S WARNING Dominick Murray Come hither me boys while I'll make some old noise And I'll tell you of stories would provoke you to ponder. Your station in life should you e're take a wife Who would cause naught but strife and pull all joys asunder. The boys of the nation with great trepidation Do swear that they ne'er will consent to be trothed, But when out cavorting, imbibing, and courting, Their senses all dulled they renege on their oath. For the face of a blaggart may look worn and haggard But full is his soul as he tears on the spree. He has no distraction to give satisfaction It's happy he is to live single and free. At each wedding feast as they call in the priest To invoke marriage blessings the boys wonder in silence If God will allow this poor man take a vow, To surrender his will and be doomed to compliance. For many's the bachelor get into a match Hor the glories of love and connubial bliss. To late to discover his wife's not his lover And he wishes his mrs. were still just a miss. There was young Paccy Hayes all singing the praise Of the wee lass who's father was cursed with the nagging. We knew if he married himself would be harried His songs now laments that his spirits are draggin' For the new Mrs. Hayes had a mouthful of nays Yhat she learned from her mother, a creature displeasing Their schemes and their plots tied Paccy in knots They'd prevent peace from pleasin' his soul any season. So young men take care if a wedding you dare Pick a girl that was raised to take great joy in life. The woman you wed should delight in your bed And not stand on your head like poor Paccy's wife. And you old ones take warning lest you be left mourning That no man will wed or take your daughter's hand If you will impart the goodwill of your heart It's of peace and contentment you'll have full command. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: GUEST,JOHN FROM ELSIE`S BAND Date: 10 Jun 04 - 10:47 AM "I went to your wedding, Although I was dreading, The thought of seeing you-u-u-u-u, chuckle)" "Your mother was laughing Your father was laughing And I was laughing too" Etc.,etc. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Joe_F Date: 10 Jun 04 - 06:46 PM The Bold Soldier. Pleasant irony, possibly 18th-century. I especially like the part where the lady realizes she is on to a good thing: "Fight on!" said the lady, "The portion is too small." |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: freightdawg Date: 10 Jun 04 - 07:58 PM There is "The Ballad of the Shape of Things" whose key verse is, "Rectangular is the hotel door, my true love tried to sneak through rectangular is the transom over which I had to peep through, rectangular is the hotel room I enter angrily, and, rectangular is the wooden box where lies my love 'neath the golden phlox they say he died of the chicken pox... in part I must agree...one chick too many had he." Freightdawg |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: LadyJean Date: 11 Jun 04 - 01:01 AM From my mother: They strolled along together. The sky was studded with stars. They reached the gate together, and for her he lifted the bars. She rolled her brown eyes to him. There was nothing between them now. For he was just a hired hand. And she was a Jersey cow. Mooed music. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: alanabit Date: 11 Jun 04 - 01:07 AM I heard a version of that in Cornwall some thirty five years ago. These things get around a bit, don't they? |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: GUEST,reggie miles Date: 11 Jun 04 - 01:51 AM I like "You're The Fingernail Scratchin' On The Blackboard Of My Heart". |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Lin in Kansas Date: 11 Jun 04 - 03:07 AM "Put Another Log on the Fire" by Tompall Glaser. "May To December" by Lehrer. "Will You Still Love Me When I'm Sixty-Four" (the Beatles?--I think). Lin |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: JennyO Date: 11 Jun 04 - 12:38 PM "The Shape of Things" was written by Sheldon Harnick and was sung in the 60's and 70's by Blossom Dearie. I had not heard it since then - until Cloudstreet revived it. It is on their CD "Violet Sarah and Muckle John". They describe it as a song of love, betrayal, revenge and geometry. The rest of the words are in the DT as "The Shape of My Love" here |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE THRESHING MACHINE From: Georgiansilver Date: 11 Jun 04 - 01:55 PM I love the "Threshing Machine" I knew an old farmer, and I knew him well. He had a daughter and her name was Nell. Nell was so pretty and only sixteen. When I showed her the works of my threshing machine. Chorus...... I 'ad 'er, I 'ad 'er, I 'ad 'er I ay. (repeat) then last two lines of verse. We went to a barn and we went us inside. There in the corner some straw we espied. Nell worked the throttle and I worked the steam. I showed her the works of my threshing machine. Chorus Six months has gone past and all is not well. Something has happened to our little Nell. Under her apron can clearly be seen. The dirty old works of my threshing machine. Chorus Nine months has gone past and all is now well. A baby is born to our little Nell. Under his nappy can clearly be seen. A brand new "two cylinder" threshing machine. Be Blessed. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: saulgoldie Date: 11 Jun 04 - 02:07 PM "Rufus and Beverly" I think is the title. Recorded by Bryan Bowers, written by...Marc Adams? Anyway, it is about a fairly typical "boy meets girl, falls in love, gets married" kinda thing, except that they find out on their wedding night that they are both transsexuals. I haven't listened to it for a while, and some details are a little fuzzy. I will find the CD at home and correct any errors. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: fat B****rd Date: 11 Jun 04 - 02:42 PM Maybe a little r'n'b for you but check out "Down Home Girl" by Alvin Robinson. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Herga Kitty Date: 11 Jun 04 - 03:29 PM "Confidence" by Chris Sugden (Sid Kipper's agent)- similar to Waltz of the Wallflowers in theme, because it's about a very unconfident bloke who gets chatting to a woman in a pub. There's a refrain line that goes "I can't believe you like me".... |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Joe_F Date: 11 Jun 04 - 04:49 PM "Minnie the Freak" by Leslie Fish: Now here's the truth by the bucketful: There's sex and there's friendship, the rest is bull. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 11 Jun 04 - 08:57 PM Mark Graham wrote "Rufus and Beverly". |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Muskratpete Date: 11 Jun 04 - 11:35 PM My vote goes for Tompall Glaser's "Put Another Log On The Fire" but I would love to hear the tune for "The Threshing Machine" song listed here. Loved it! |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Sooz Date: 12 Jun 04 - 12:01 PM The Threshing Machine is sung to the tune of Willikins and his Dinah (I think) |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Herga Kitty Date: 12 Jun 04 - 02:14 PM Sooz - yes it is, but (more agriculturally) it's also the tune for "you ain't ploughed an acre, I'll swear and I'll vow, that you're damned idle fellows that follow the plough"! Kitty |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: mack/misophist Date: 13 Jun 04 - 10:26 AM It's too short to be called a song but I've always loved these lines from The Three Penny Opera: Die liebe dauert, oder dauert nicht An dem, oder jenem ort. (Love will endure. Or it won't. Here, or someplace else.) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LIEBESLIED (German) From: Joe_F Date: 13 Jun 04 - 10:58 AM mack/misophist: Those two lines are indeed to short to be a song, but they are part of a song: LIEBESLIED (LOVE SONG) Macheath: Siehst du den Mond über Soho? (Macheath: Do you see the moon over Soho?) Polly: Ich seh' ihr, Lieber. Fühlst du mein Herz schlagen, Geliebter? (Polly: I see it, beloved. Do you feel my heart beating, beloved?) Macheath: Ich fühl 'es, Geliebte. (Macheath: I feel it, beloved.) Polly: Wo du hingehst, da will ich auch hingehn. (Polly: Wherever you go, there I too want to go.) Macheath: Und wo du bleibst, da will auch ich sein. (Macheath: And wherever you stay, there I too wish to be.) Beide: Und gibt's auch kein Schriftstück vom Standesamt Und keine Blumen auf dem Altar Und weiß ich auch nicht, woher dein Brautkleid stammt Und gibt's keine Myren im Haar -- Der Teller, von welchem du issest dein Brot Schau ihr nicht lang an, wirf ihm fort! Die Liebe dauert oder dauert nicht An dem oder jenem Ort. (Both: And even if we have no license from the registrar And no flowers upon the altar And though I know not, from where your bridal dress come And though there's no myrtle in your hair -- The plate from which you are eating your bread Don't look at it long; throw it away! Love will or will not endure Here or at some other place.) I Americanized that once as follows: No JP had signed a certificate, No-one brought flowers or broke a glass, Your clothes were the same as on the day we met, And there was no rice on the grass. Don't stare at your plate when the food is all gone -- Put it up to wash with the rest. Our love will go on, or it won't go on, If not in the east, the west. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: John MacKenzie Date: 13 Jun 04 - 11:21 AM Get your Biscuits in the Oven, and your Buns in the Bed. Kinky Freidman [I think] Giok |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Susanne (skw) Date: 13 Jun 04 - 08:29 PM Another one by Leon Rosselson: Invisible Married Breakfast Blues (sung - or rather talked - to devastating effect on 'Love Loneliness Laundry' by Val Bailey) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SHE TICKLES ME From: Padre Date: 13 Jun 04 - 10:26 PM She Tickles Me: I went to see my gal last night, I stayed till after three The reason why I stayed so late, that gal just tickles me She was so doggone bashful, only 16 years of age, She had the table all dressed up, put britches on the legs I asked her would she marry, I'm tired of goin' free, Then she jammed a rag in the keyhole and boy that tickled me Then she pulled down all the window shades, so no one couldn't see, Then she turned the lights all out, and boy that tickled me I stumbled round to find her, the room was dark as night, I got my arms around her, made everything all right I hugged her, I kissed her, then the lights came on, I found her mama in my arms, and my old girl was gone Then something snapped behind me, and I whirled around to see, Her daddy, with a shotgun, had come to tickle me I jumped right through the window and landed in the sand, Expecting any moment to be plugged by her old man I've never seen my girl since then, and I'm still goin' free, She's 1400 miles away, and boy that tickles me. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LOVE STORY (Randy Newman) From: Merritt Date: 13 Jun 04 - 11:46 PM I like performing this one by Randy Newman. Works well for a nice ragtimey guitar part with alternating bass, especially the chorus. Usually gets a couple of laughs and winces. Love Story I like your mother, I like your brother I like you; you like me too We'll get a preacher, I'll buy a ring We'll hire a band, with an accordion And a violin, and a tenor who can sing CHORUS: You and me you and me, baby You and me you and me you and me, baby You and me you and me you and me, baby You and me you and me you and me, baby We'll have a kid, or maybe rent one He's got to be straight, cause we don't want a bent one He'll drink his baby brew, from a big brass cup Someday he may be president.. If things loosen up CHORUS BRIDGE: I'll take the train into the city Ev'ry mornin' You may be plain - I think you're pretty In the mornin' And some nights we'll go out dancin' If I'm not too tired Some nights we'll sit romancin' Watching the Late Show by the fire When our kids are grown With kids of their own They'll send us away To a little home in Florida We'll play checkers all day Until we pass away CHORUS - Merritt |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 14 Jun 04 - 10:41 AM Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Have A Song To Sing O!" is a very nice song in the vein of this thread. |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: JWB Date: 14 Jun 04 - 04:33 PM There's "I Want to Kiss Her But She Won't Let Me", and a traditional song recorded by Martin Carthy called "King Napertee". Jerry |
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Subject: RE: your favorite ironical/comical love song From: Snuffy Date: 14 Jun 04 - 07:19 PM I've always found "I Have A Song To Sing O!" to be the very antithesis of comedy/irony. Indeed, it could be the nearest that G&S got to tragedy. For a G&S song in this vein try If that is so sing derry down derry |
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