You can write songs about anything

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 06:14 AM

Could be a another song in there with a rhyme for Joes protractor eh?

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Lad
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 05:42 AM

Heard a bloke in Australia sing a love song to his tractor.
I had a Massey 35. God I miss her!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Skivee
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 02:24 AM

snerk
Actually,"'The Wallops Island Red-Blooded All-America Talking Blues', or 'When Is An Aquaintance Not A Friend'"...based on a true story.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:27 PM

"Ya give me fever"! I remember it it was a good song....

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Skivee
Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:13 AM

I won a song contest writing about mosquitos at a NASA launch site.
Admittedly a niche market.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Lad
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:16 PM

I swing to the left
I swing to the right
Prancing and dancing
Well into the night
There's nothing on earth
That will give your heart cheer
Than dancing around
In your wife's underwear.

'nuff said.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:16 PM

Long distance information,
Give me Jims wifes underwear,
Cause its causing consternation,
On Mudcat and everywhere.
I did not mean to make it,
Such a subject on the web.
So all that I can hope for,
Is this thread will slowly ebb.

Chuck Berry eat your heart out!!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Lad
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 03:10 PM

Not you, Me. I meant "Georgiansilver"

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Trish
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 02:08 PM

Sorry Jim Lad
You've lost me - or have I lost the thread?

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Lad
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 11:25 AM

Ah Trish:
I gave you too much information.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Guest (Trish)
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 09:47 AM

Just about anything
These aren't the titles, just the subjects
Odd socks
A Teacher's Life
Groundforce (gardening)
Building a bridge to the mainland
Not building a bridge to the mainland
Greenpeace/whaling
Pollution
Rainy holidays
IW Rifles

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:51 AM

Erm...not that I know of Jim.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Lad
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:18 AM

Very close! Have you heard me?

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:16 AM

There's nothing so fine,
In this life I do swear.
Than dancing around in,
Jims wifes underwear.

Will that do Jim Lad.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Lad
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 03:39 AM

Dancing Around In My Wife's Underwear.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 01:52 AM

My friend, Doug Hamilton, wrote one about paperwork to the tune of Old MacDonald's Farm.

Old MacDonald had a FORM
E-I-E-I-Oh
And on this form he had some blanks
E-I-E-I-Oh
With a blank blank here..., etc.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 12:20 AM

In answer to a song challenge, I once wrote a song that mentioned both 'Fast Cars' and 'Waterfalls'. It was called 'Parabolical'.

And Joe thinks that Protractors was difficult.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 12:09 AM

Couple more:

FOUR WET PIGS by Greg Brown.

HEY, BARTENDER, THERE'S A BIG BUG IN MY BEER

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 10:52 PM

...ah! but is all them songs in the tradition?..

Not until they are written weelittledrummer, Not until they are written!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Girl Friday
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 08:14 PM

Hello. I'm half of Tone Deaf Leopard. Our motto- coined by the Barden of England, is "Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid"
Song Titles include
Four by Four, Wee and A Shave, one colloquially known as The hand-cranking song,Miss Whiplash,Saga Lout Song, Rebel with No Bladder Control, Rochester Town. This last one features a fruitless search for a condom in Rochester, England. Some seasonal songs are I saw the Lights(garish Christmas Decorations), and Twelve curries of Christmas. Don't forget our festival song, Stuck in a Portaloo.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:28 AM

When I was at college and just a young man,
My ambition was to be a great actor.
But now I sit here at my antique pine desk,
With dividers, set square and protractor.

At least when I go out at night I can sing,
I can use other instruments too.
And if you don't like this song, written for Joe,
I suppose you can always sue!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Celtaddict
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 07:54 PM

Howard Kaplan (24 Dec, 5:12), that is brilliant, but I kept waiting for the bridge.
When the pint ends,
When the string breaks,
When I'm feeling sore,
I simply remember my song topic things
And then I go write some more.
I also admire John Gorka's 'Winter Cows' (The cows in the mooyard are making their plans for the short winter day and the cold. . . .winter hands.)
Joe, still hoping for the protractor.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Anniecat
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 05:52 PM

No --it isn"t Anniecat : I"m an imposter.
Nobody has mentioned "Beans in my ears " or was that too long ago ??
There is another jolly song about crabs---It is sung by naval personnel when referring to members of the Royal Air Force, who are always known as Crabs ---from Crabfat Blue, the colour of their uniforms. For this ,you need a 40 seater bus,a large number of rowdy sailors, and a trumpeter. As you drive past the guardroom of RAF Buggery-in-the-Mire,you get the trumpeter to play the tune of the Camptown Races, whilst all available hands sing " All you Crabfats Piss Me Off, DOO-DAH,DOO-DAH " etc. (repeat incessantly ).Caution--It is advisable to do this only when LEAVING the RAF station, as opposed to when entering it.    Bubblyrat, (AKA Signor Tottoff.)

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 05:10 PM

O.K so what about a song challenge......someone come up with what the song should be about and let's see what we all can do. I will try to meet any challenge.....I sort of promise!......

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:57 PM

ah! but is all them songs in the tradition?

Would a yokel like me be able to sing them songs lustily as he sat down to the 'arrowing weekly task of getting a bowel movement started?

Personally I'd like a few more mentions of the First World War and some pit explosions in there - just to get me in the mood.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:42 PM

At one of Annamill's gatherings there was a guy who wrote a song called "I ran over Bruce Springsteen's Dog".

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:19 PM

I don't write songs, but here are some of my favorite songs about surprising subjects:

I SHOT YOUR DOG by Fred Eaglesmith.

BRANCHING OUT by John Gorka. "When I grow up I want to be a tree."

SWIMMING SONG by Loudon Wainwright III.

NaCl (SODIUM CHLORIDE) by Kate McGarrigle.

GALAXY SONG by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Psychomorris
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:37 AM

Sorry about the interruption.( needed my treatment) I agree there is no subject or matter that can not be written about.
Ashes Cricket Cont.

The boys of our team they looked so entrancing
like bawling young bullocks the're out for their fun
With the yell of owzat and all kinds of prancing
Mcgraths fine balls takes another wicket for one

Chorus We'll rant and we'll roar like true Aussie cricketers
       We'll rant and we'll roar at the wickets we got
       Until the Ashes return to their true homeland
       It'll be bloody hard going for you sad Pommie lot.

Then Clarke at Perth that hard bitten batsman
caused the trembling Pom bowlers to shit in the dust
where the bowlers got smashed by Hussey and Gilchrist
the poor Pom's couldn't get near them, Now thats what I call just.

Chorus

Then fill up your glasses and drink to our cricketrs
We'll drink this place dry and watch the Poms fall
For now we've won the Ashes from England
go on hurry off home cause we've buggered you all.

Chorus.

A crying Pom Psychomorris

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Psychomorris
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:26 AM

Ashes Cricket (tune of Spanish Ladies)

Farewell and adieu to you cricketers of old England
farewell and adieu your barmy army went wrong
We've bowled out our overs and left you a crying
Oh to win back the ashes did'nt take us that long.

CHORUS We'll rant and we'll roar like true Aussie cricketers
We'll rant and we'll roar at the wickets we got
Until the Ashes return to their true homeland
It'll be bloody hard going you sad Ponmmie lot.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 11:10 PM

Yes, it was kinda in-your-face, wasn't it.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 11:07 PM

"swallowed a crown (tooth variety) and put his crap through a strainer for the next couple of days until he found it and had it replaced"
             Not my choice of a way to get shit-faced...

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Johnhenry'shammer
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 09:23 PM

The only song I ever wrote was a blues about a guy who misses his bus to work and gets fired and then kills his bosses family or something like that. I wish I knew where it was

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 07:35 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: bobad
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 08:00 PM

"false teeth recovered from toilet drains"

A friend of mine once swallowed a crown (tooth variety) and put his crap through a strainer for the next couple of days until he found it and had it replaced - true story.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM

I can't help but ask. How many rhymes did you find for 'car trunk' in the Jimmy Hoffa song?

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM

Rose, nice to see you!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:50 PM

Some of these won't come as a **great** surprise for anyone who knows me, but here's some selections from my songlist:

Amazon.com
Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9)
Cloning
Lunar cities
Toronto. Numerous times.
Daleks
Donuts
On-line friendships
Weddings (mine, specifically *grin*)
Cats
Pirates
Health care
Jimmy Hoffa
Futuristic hotels
Winter driving
Sedona (and Seattle, and Portland, and San Francisco)
IKEA
Anne Frank
Union construction trades

Actually, ought to post that last one...

-- Gary

I'm going to abuse me editing priviliges here and state that you should post ALL of them - Bert

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 06:10 PM

Northern Lights
A Troller
Dust on Instruments
Lament for someone dead too young
Rain
Getting Better
Life after death
Golden Rocking Chair
Goodbye
Welcome after death

...
Hmmm. It's hard to condense a song into its parts.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 06:07 PM

"false teeth recovered from toilet drains"

That ain't funny!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: M.Ted
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 05:53 PM

What songs are about is often quite different than the "subject"--

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:24 PM

Sweet Allis-Chalmers, I've rode you so long,
It feels like I'm glued to your wheel,
Your rusty exhaust pipe hums me a song,
That sounds just as bad as I feel . . .

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:17 PM

I suggest the interested student or aspirant visit the Mudcat Song Book and review all the SONG CHALLENGE threads. I can't begin to remember all the topics. Scientists measuring bees, otters who want to go home, mooses attacking Volkswagens, showgirls throwing underwear, naked men on second-story drainpipes, headless chickens and mysterious chicken-murders and rooster-wranglers, free clothes and golden toilets, to name just a few. Not to mention two variants of the Incandescent Pickle and its uses, and the trials of the ladies who hostess at the Gentlemen's Club, and why women's lib is not all its cracked up to be, and lovers who meet during out-of-body trysts before they marry. Sisters buried in landfills and keys lost in outhouses, weasel-poop coffee, false teeth recovered from toilet drains... cowboys bit by snakes...whores operating beauty salons... the list just goes on and on.

A

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:01 PM

Keep in mind that John Deere and Case are protractors. Nothin' amateur about them.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:46 PM

Joe, is that a song challenge or do you have a song about protractors?

And, An Buachaill Caol Dubh, All of my songs say something significant.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: LilyFestre
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:23 PM

One of my all time favorite made up songs was composed while a 10 year old girl and I were hiking in the woods, singing to keep away the bears. The song was about a mutual someone we didn't like because she treated everyone poorly (including her husband).

The tune? What shall we do with the drunken sailor...

One of the many verses:

She beats him with a frying pan
She beats him with a frying pan
She beats him with a frying pan
Early in the morning...

Not much to it at all but we got a good laugh out of it and didn't see a bear all day! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 11:33 AM

Many of the songs above seem, from a consideration of titles, to tend towards the humorous. Bearing in mind some of the contributions to another current thread, re "What do you need to write (sic) a song", in particular those concerned with "having something to say" (even if it is only that "De Camptown racetrack five mile long..."), are there any examples among the Comic Songs above of their being genuinely satirical; that is, in the guise of humour, actually saying something more significant than that somebody has wee crustaceans....

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:25 AM

A friend of ours, John Dengate, has written, amongst many others, songs about:

Train timetables
Cricket
The internal combustion engine
Skin Cancer
Running a marathon
Gambling
Dental hygiene
The stock exchange
Changing to metric
Rectal bleeding

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Bruce Michael Baillie
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 07:40 AM

...Oy Uncle Dave-O, I've written 3 songs about garden gnomes!
Gnome on the Range,
The green, green garden gnome,
and
Gnome boys Gnome.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:07 AM

OK.
How about a song about protractors?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 02:43 AM

A funeral home with a drive-thru window