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28 Jul 02 - 03:13 AM (#755826) Subject: Very vague, but help if you can From: GUEST,E.M. Forster Hi. I heard a tune a while back, but didn't catch the name of it. It's a humorous Irish tune and it's basically about this girl that that can't get a husband because every time she courts a boy, she finds out that he is actually one of her wild father's children. By the end of the song, she is at her wits end until her mother informs her that the man she thinks is her father really isn't! confusing and vague I know, but any help is appreciated. Thanks much! Feel free to mail me if you like. Eric ericmforster@yahoo.com |
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28 Jul 02 - 03:50 AM (#755835) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: masato sakurai The song is in the DT as Johnny Be Fair and SHAME AND SCANDAL.
See also previous threads:
seeking song about girl w/ promiscuous father
Father oh Father - looking for related songs ~Masato
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28 Jul 02 - 05:14 AM (#755850) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: Stewie I recalled contributing to another thread about 'Shame and Scandal': Not that it moves this thread forward any, but I do have a soft spot for Buddy Bohn - whomsoever he is/was - because he was part of my earliest collection of 'folk' stuff, along with the Chad Mitchell Trio, Clancys, Corries, NLCRs etc, lodestars all to the real McCoy. --Stewie. |
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28 Jul 02 - 01:18 PM (#755953) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: GUEST,Jim McLean There's a humorous song by The Kerries on a Major Minor LP 1967 called McTaggart. I can transcrbe the song if you want when I get a minute, but the gist of it is that McTaggart falls in love with various girls only to be told by his father that '....Blood is thicker than water, I've sown wild oat from John O' Groats and Jeanie/Rosie etc is my daughter' The last verse concerns McTaggart telling his mother who informs him that ' ..you can mary Jeannie/Rose etc because your father's not your father' Cheers, Jim Mclean |
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28 Jul 02 - 04:26 PM (#756015) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: vectis I thought Shame and Scandal was a calypso. I have always assumed that Lance Percival writ it. Fol de rol de riddle rol..... |
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28 Jul 02 - 05:14 PM (#756031) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: GUEST Isn't that a Jamaican song? Or maybe it's universal. Come to think of it, genetic evidence points that way. |
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28 Jul 02 - 08:39 PM (#756117) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: Malcolm Douglas There are several different (and unrelated) songs based on the same old joke, most of which have already been mentioned; so far as I can tell, they are all modern compositions, though the one recorded by Harry Belafonte appears to have been modelled on an older song on a different subject. The one that people tend to imagine is Irish is the one written by Buffy Ste. Marie; she set it to a traditional tune known in Ireland (though also in America and other countries) which is probably where the misunderstanding crept in. |
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05 Feb 21 - 09:24 AM (#4091589) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: GUEST,Derrick According to Wikipedia the song was written for a film in 1943 by calypso singer Sir Lancelot. See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame_and_Scandal_in_the_Family |
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05 Feb 21 - 01:29 PM (#4091644) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Very vague, but help if you can From: The Og I've sung "Shame and Scandal" to a Calypso beat, but the basic plot can be transcribed to any genre |