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30 Apr 03 - 08:41 AM (#943438) Subject: Your favourite song/tune title From: Alexis Looking through a tune book last night I came across what must be the best title ever; "the stool of repentance". What would the B side be, I wonder? "I should never have eaten it" perhaps ? What's your favourite? Alex |
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30 Apr 03 - 08:54 AM (#943452) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Firecat This might be boring but I think "The Movie In My Mind" is a great title. And it's a good song too!!!! |
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30 Apr 03 - 09:04 AM (#943460) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Snuffy A couple of Irish tunes spring to mind: The Floating Crowbar Take her Out And Air Her |
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30 Apr 03 - 09:06 AM (#943463) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Sam L I keep trying to remember the band who did an instrumental called Where The Fuck's My Wallet. |
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30 Apr 03 - 09:19 AM (#943472) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: greg stephens "The beautiful island of somewhere", "James Porteous' Farewell to old Dr Clapperton" and "Slip it in easy" all spring to mind. |
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30 Apr 03 - 09:20 AM (#943474) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,James Dylan's It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry. |
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30 Apr 03 - 10:05 AM (#943503) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Arkie "Time Wounds All Heels" |
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30 Apr 03 - 10:39 AM (#943531) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST Push the Pig's Feet Further Into the Fire |
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30 Apr 03 - 10:45 AM (#943542) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Russ Kick Mr. Possum and He Won't Come Down |
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30 Apr 03 - 10:46 AM (#943543) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: kendall "She wont get under me 'til I get over you" |
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30 Apr 03 - 10:49 AM (#943546) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: radriano My favorite Irish tune title is "The Pope's Toe" |
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30 Apr 03 - 10:50 AM (#943549) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,smokeyjoe "I'm givin' up on disco, and goin' back to playin' the blues" -Big Jack Johnson "If drinkin' don't kill me, her memory will" -George Jones to name a couple.... |
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30 Apr 03 - 12:34 PM (#943641) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Why Don't we Get Drunk and Screw? by Jimmy Buffett |
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30 Apr 03 - 12:50 PM (#943650) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bee-dubya-ell Irish fiddle tune: "I Murdered My Wife and Danced on Her Grave". Bruce |
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30 Apr 03 - 12:56 PM (#943656) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Don Firth "You've Flushed Me from the Bathroom of Your Heart." The Glen Campbell Song Book Don Firth |
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30 Apr 03 - 05:21 PM (#943845) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: meg I've got a friend in a Chicago-area Celtic group, whose latest album was titled "The Stool of Repentance." But local media and bar owners kept hearing it wrong, and would call it "The Stew of Repentance" on posters and whatnot. There's a meal to regret.... Personally, I think The Merry Sisters of Fate is a great tune name. |
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30 Apr 03 - 05:42 PM (#943863) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Lin in Kansas I like "Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life." Lin |
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01 May 03 - 12:08 AM (#944121) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Ely "You Married My Daughter But You Didn't" "Merrily Kiss the Quaker" (I used to play a set on the hammered dulcimer of "Road to Lisdoonvarna", "Merrily Kiss the Quaker", and "Haste to the Wedding", more for the sake of the titles than because the songs went together). I'm a Quaker and everybody got a big hoot out of it when I played them at meeting, since everybody who isn't Quaker thinks we must be dour and humorless. Or, they think we're Amish, but that's another set of stories . . . |
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01 May 03 - 02:47 AM (#944169) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Kaleea Ely, I have a friend who is Quaker (pun intended!) and he used to always request that I play/sing "I Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife & I merrily Kissed the Quaker . . ." which he learned to play on Mountain dulcimer! |
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01 May 03 - 02:55 AM (#944175) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Leadfingers One from(would you believe)Ewan MacColl,written at the time of China's Red Revolution-- The Democratic Peace Loving People of the West Will Not Be Overcome By the Revolutionary Hordes of the Peoples Republic of China Rag--Its also the longest song title I know. |
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01 May 03 - 03:42 PM (#944396) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bat Goddess "Living in Braintree With You In Methuen Is Almost Like Living In Lowell" and it's a fun song to sing, too, with some of the worst puns I've ever run into in a song. Then again, puns in songs might be a topic for another thread. Linn |
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01 May 03 - 04:44 PM (#944443) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie "Get your biscuits in the oven, and your buns in the bed" sung I think by Kinky Freidmann, if not it should have been. Giok |
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01 May 03 - 06:19 PM (#944515) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: mack/misophist Country has the best titles: Thank You, Dear Lord, For Victory in Korea My Tears Have Washed 'I Love You' From the Blackboard of my Heart I've Got Tears In My Ears From Layin' On My Back, Crying My Heart Out Over You They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More Ride 'Em JewBoy the last two from Kinkey Friedman |
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01 May 03 - 07:05 PM (#944532) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Russ How can I miss you if you won't go away? |
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01 May 03 - 07:21 PM (#944537) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bat Goddess Lines from the above song (Living in Braintree) -- "When you left, dear, some of your pets lingered on / I took my wrath out on your poodle, he put it out on the lawn / So it's like you're still here, dear. A part of you sticks to my sole. / Living in Braintree with you in Methuen is almost like living in Lowell." "Since you left you took my balls, dear. So without you I can't even bowl. / Living in Braintree with you in Methuen is almost like living in Lowell." Linn |
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01 May 03 - 08:31 PM (#944580) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: michaelr "Fairly Shot of Her" |
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01 May 03 - 11:06 PM (#944633) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,HOMESgirl "Thank God and Greyhound, You're Gone!" I heard Roy Clark sing this at the Illinois State Fair as a kid in the '70s, and have never forgotten it! |
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02 May 03 - 06:56 AM (#944774) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: CRANKY YANKEE "A CROWDED ELEVATOR SMELLS DIFFERENT TO A MIDGET" It's a parody of "Little Boxes" pertains to the "Hippies" in Greenwich Villiage (in New York City)and how they "all look just the same", just like the Little Boxes all look just the same. |
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02 May 03 - 10:36 AM (#944888) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: alanabit A friend of mine who is a big country fan once played me a song called "Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial", which is one of the few country songs I have ever enjoyed. When you think about its subject matter, Randy Newman's "Political Science" is a beautifully deadpan title. |
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02 May 03 - 11:03 AM (#944899) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie I don't know if these exist, they just came to me by osmosis. While peeping through the knothole in Grandma's wooden leg. I'm dancing with tears in my eyes 'cause the girl in my arms is a boy. My Uncle used to love me, but she died. Giok |
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02 May 03 - 11:16 AM (#944905) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: PoppaGator "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away," circa 1972, is by Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, a great California outfit specializing in humorous tunes played (with dead seriousness and consummate skill) in a Western Swing style. I'm pretty sure the instrumentation was all-acoustic, with a very hot fiddle prominently featured. *All* of Dan's songs were/are hilarious, but I can't think of a title any better than this one. |
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02 May 03 - 12:51 PM (#944970) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Merritt "You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone" I've tried to put together a political tune about Ralph Nader entitled, "You're Right, I'm Left, He's Green" but I must have tollbooths on my sysnapses. Never seems to work. Great thread. - Merritt "It's all one big note." - Frank Zappa |
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02 May 03 - 01:18 PM (#944987) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Russ The Last Shot Got Him (fiddle tune) |
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02 May 03 - 03:17 PM (#945067) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: alanabit Mississippi John Hurt did a piece called First Shot Missed Him. |
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02 May 03 - 03:57 PM (#945088) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Strupag In my old Merchant Navy days there was a rather rude song "I was in Bagdad afore you were in yer dad's Bag" |
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02 May 03 - 04:43 PM (#945107) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Ochone ochone Matelot |
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02 May 03 - 09:41 PM (#945246) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST I came across a fiddle tune credited to Traditional called "The Lone Appendicitis". (I hope I spelled that right - like when your appendix bursts). I don't know what it means. |
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03 May 03 - 08:01 AM (#945351) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,rangersteve the above GUEST addition was from me, RangerSteve. I don't know how I became a GUEST. |
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03 May 03 - 08:32 PM (#945616) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Stephen L. Rich There's an old John Hartford song called "I've Heard That Tear-Stained Monologue You Do There By The Door Before You Go". It's so absurdly long that it is wonderful. Stephen Lee |
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03 May 03 - 10:16 PM (#945644) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: khandu "I'ma Cranky Old Yank in my Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokahama with my Honolulu Mama, Singing Those Neato, Beato, Back o' my Seato, Hirohito Blues". That was originally the actual title. I think it was by Cole Porter. khandu |
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04 May 03 - 04:06 AM (#945707) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie An Anthony Newley title just sprung to mind, though whether it was a song or not I can't remember. "Will Heironymous Merkin ever forget Mercy Humpke, and find true happiness?" Any explanations gratefully accepted......Giok |
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04 May 03 - 04:09 AM (#945709) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Found it myself Not bad remembering considering its over 30 years ago. Giok |
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04 May 03 - 10:26 AM (#945789) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: van lingle "That Was a Million Lite Beers Ago" I don't remember the song but the title stuck with me. I've always liked "Whiskey 'fore Breakfast" the tune and the title and no, I'm not much of a drinker these days. vl |
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04 May 03 - 03:54 PM (#945913) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bat Goddess And then there's "Bigfoot Stole My Wife" last heard by Jimmy McDougal. And "I Spent My Last 10 Dollars on Birth Control and Beer." Linn |
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05 May 03 - 12:17 PM (#946265) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Blackcatter The Weather is here - Wish You Were Beautiful You Call it Jogging (I Call it Running Around) My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus God Don't Own A Car Door Number 3 - Jimmy Buffett |
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05 May 03 - 06:33 PM (#946508) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: TheBigPinkLad Frank Zappa had some beauts: Don't you ever wash that thing? Weasel's ripped my flesh. Willie the pimp, etc. I like "Don't spit in your grandfather's broth through the knothole in his wooden leg" and "Meet me outside the pawnshop and I'll kiss you under the balls" |
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05 May 03 - 06:45 PM (#946517) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) My absolute favorite title was by John MacLauglin's Jazz/Indian Classical band, Shakti. It was an Instrumental entitled "What need have I for this? What need have I for that? I am dancing at the feet of my lord. All is bliss. All is bliss." Rich |
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05 May 03 - 07:54 PM (#946567) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: wysiwyg Feed Your Babies Onions (so you can find them in the dark) Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady.... I've known a few landladies, and if she wasn't blind (as he was), I bet he caught a few lumps! ~Susan |
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06 May 03 - 10:46 AM (#946991) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie "Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissin' you goodbye!" |
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06 May 03 - 05:16 PM (#947262) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bill D Them C&W songs shure do have the strangest titles, like "Bill Broke My Heart at Walgreens, and I Cried all the Way to Sears" and "Paw Went to Sleep and the Hogs Eat Him" ...but then, they're trying to give the whole point of the story in the title. |
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07 May 03 - 12:59 AM (#947537) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Blackcatter dead kennedys - nazi punks fuck off For those who think that Punk is a neo-fascist, skin-head realm. |
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07 May 03 - 01:04 AM (#947539) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: McMusic Don't know if these have been listed (this is a lengthy thread): 1_"A Headache Tommorrow, Or A Heartache Tonight" 2-"I Would've Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Brrrppp!" |
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07 May 03 - 01:56 AM (#947567) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Cluin "Pull Out the Knife and Stick It Again", an Irish jig. And yet another dumbass song from Jimmy Buffet: "Please Bypass This Heart". |
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07 May 03 - 02:03 AM (#947573) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: anais come out to the cornfield darlin' and i'll kiss you behind the ears all my exes live in texas nail that catfish to a tree the par cark ( a liz carrol spoonerism) and one my father wrote...the future ain't what it used to be |
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07 May 03 - 12:14 PM (#947898) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: YOR "The only thing that looks good on me is you" Bryan Adams "Be my Yoko Ono" BNL |
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07 May 03 - 12:31 PM (#947912) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bardford When the Bed Breaks Baby, I'll Meet You in the Spring. I have this on an Incredible Bongo Band album. |
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16 Mar 04 - 09:22 AM (#1138031) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,ron.vercesi@btconnect.com My mother has just passed away aged 96 this morning aged 96 as she was a professional dancer throughout her life from age 7 to 38 I was hoping to find a song to play at her funeral called 'I'm dancing with tears in my eyes', possibly made during the 30-40s. If you could help I would be very grateful |
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16 Mar 04 - 09:40 AM (#1138058) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Fergie How about; "I can't get over a girl like you, so you'll have to answer the phone yourself" Or "The songs that we sang at the sing-song in Sing-sing" A friend of mine use to make a good job of singing these two, but I've searched for the words and can't find them anywhere, and I've lost contact with him over the years, so I can't get the lyrics from him. Fergus |
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20 Jun 04 - 03:45 PM (#1211044) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Paul Don't wipe the tears that you cry for him off on my clean white shirt-Buck Owens |
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20 Jun 04 - 04:01 PM (#1211056) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Georgiansilver "Love never dies" |
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11 Jan 06 - 07:03 PM (#1646601) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,mike I'd a fiddler, and my two favorites are these scatalogical fiddle tunes: Old Black Cat Shit in the Shavings and Who Shit in Grandpa's Hat? pretty classy, huh? both are very, very old Appalachian tunes. |
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11 Jan 06 - 08:52 PM (#1646682) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bert Cow Patty |
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11 Jan 06 - 11:59 PM (#1646800) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Stephen L. Rich Joh Hartford's "I've Heard That Tear-Stained Monologue You Do There By The Door Before You Go". Stephen Lee |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:08 PM (#1647405) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,dani More lyrics, Linn! Dani |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:21 PM (#1647412) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Once Famous "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw" by Jimmy Buffett |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:29 PM (#1647420) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Celtlover How about Sly and The Family's Stone's great hit, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)" I had the 45 record, and it was really spelled like that! |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:33 PM (#1647425) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Little Hawk It's Allright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:38 PM (#1647431) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: number 6 "Carpe Diem and Nothing " .. by the fugs sIx |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:48 PM (#1647438) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Celtlover Another childhood favorite was from an album of my older brother's, "The Ballad Of The Hip Death Goddess" by a band called Ultimate Spinach |
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12 Jan 06 - 10:49 PM (#1647439) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: number 6 "Shove-off Shostakovich" .. by Roger Ruskin Spear sIx |
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13 Jan 06 - 09:21 AM (#1647740) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Cats There really was a song published and printed called, 'Welcome to New York, Titanic'. It caused the publishers to go broke... I'm still looking for a copy, there has to be one out there somewhere. |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:20 AM (#1990423) Subject: First Shot Missed Him John Hurt From: GUEST First Shot Missed Him Mississippi John Hurt (Last Sessions) tab by Torbjørn Nymo (metonymo @ mail . ru) C(add9) : . . . -0---------0-------------0------- -----3---1-------3---------3----- -----0-------0-------0-------0--- -------------2-----------2------- -3---------------3--------------- --------------------------------- F(add9) : . . . --------------------------------- -1---------1-—---------1--------- -----2---0---0---2---0------0h2s- -3-----------3-----------3------- --------------------------------- --------------------------------- 0h2s : pick loose string, hammer on the second fret, and pull off G(add9) : . . . --------------------------------- --0--------0-----------1*-------- -0---2---0---0---2---0------0h2s- -------------0------------------- --------------------------------- --------------------------------- *sometimes 0 C(6) : . . . --------------------------------- -1---------1-----------1--------- -----2---0---0---2---0-------0--- --------------------------------- -3-----------3-----------3------- --------------------------------- The first shot missed him, a mile away The last shot got him, so they say Oh, the last shot got him Oh, the last shot got him She cooked good biscuits, so they say ... Oh, she cooked good biscuits, so they say ... Oh, She got good business, so they say She got good business, so they say She got good business Oh, she got good business I wanna trade with you, so they say I wanna trade with you, so they say Well, wanna trade with you ... Oh you got good business, so they say You got good business, so they say You got good business Oh, you got good business *** First Shot Missed Him (strumming) Nice to play strumming, vary the chords with add9 chords, hammering down and letting up: C x32010 F x33211 G 320003 Cadd9 x32030 Fadd9 x32011 Gadd9 300003 Cadd9* x30010 Fadd9* xx3213 Gadd9* 300203 Strumming something like this gives that "jumping" play: Cadd9 C Cadd9 C Cadd9* The first shot missed him, a mile away Fadd9 F Fadd9 F Fadd9* The last shot got him, so they say Gadd9 G Gadd9 G Gadd9* Oh, the last shot got him Cadd9 C Cadd9 C Cadd9* Oh, the last shot got him *** There is also a song called "The Last Shot Got Him" by Cecil Mack and Chris Smith with some other lyrics than the version by John Hurt. "The first shot missed him by a nose, and the next shot tore right through his clothes". Cecil Mack and Chris Smith also tells about the third, forth and fifth shot. *** If you have some other versions in text or mp3 of this song, comments or corrections, please mail me at metonymo @ mail . ru |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:27 AM (#1990432) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Scrump "My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe" was always one of my favourite song titles. |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:35 AM (#1990438) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: mrmoe ...about a month ago, I was sitting in a bar in easthampton, massachusetts watching "open mic" night and thoroughly enjoying a 3 piece bluegrass group.....very good guitarist, competent (and beautiful) mandolin player, and an incredible fiddle player....after a few songs, they announced that this was their first time appearing in public and did not yet have a name....they then invited the audience to suggest one....the name "three chord cowboy" popped into my head, but after thinking about it for a moment, I decided it was too good a phrase to just give away....so I went home that night and wrote the chorus....I wonder what that group wound up calling themselves.... |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:55 AM (#1990465) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Scoville We used to play a tune called "Five Miles Out of Town". One of our bandmates spent a semester in Scotland and taught it to some fiddlers there, and when she came back she reported that, with a Scottish accent, it was called "Five Miles Out of Tune". |
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08 Mar 07 - 10:15 AM (#1990484) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Folk Form # 1 LGBNAF by NWA. LGBNAF means Lets get buck naked adn f**k. |
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08 Mar 07 - 10:33 AM (#1990495) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Jerry Rasmussen A fiddle tune: The Crippled Kingfisher. Jerry |
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08 Mar 07 - 11:18 AM (#1990532) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST "Bang your frog on the sofa" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/371 or "Squirrel heads and Gravy" http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/SPRI_SRU.htm |
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08 Mar 07 - 11:22 AM (#1990536) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Mr Fox Not folk, but: - 'There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree, Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight'. Alex Harvey. |
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08 Sep 10 - 04:24 PM (#2982622) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Roger where can I find the lyrics for: "Thank you, dear lord, for victory in Korea"? pittmanr@charter.net |
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08 Sep 10 - 05:05 PM (#2982658) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bettynh My favorite title is Mose Allison's Your Mind is on Vacation (and Your Mouth is Working Overtime) Sitting there yakkin' right in my face Coming on like you own the place If silence was golden You couldn't raise a dime Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime You're quoting figures, you're dropping names You're telling stories, you're playing games You always laugh when things ain't funny You try to sound like you don't need money If talk was criminal, you'd lead a life of crime Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime You know that life is short and talk is cheap Don't make promises that you can't keep If you don't like the song I'm singing, just grin and bear it All I can say is if the shoe fits wear it If you must keep talking please can you make it rhyme Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime Cause your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime |
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09 Sep 10 - 06:24 AM (#2982980) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: banjoman Yoou were only F***ing while I was making love - from the singing of Debbie McClatchey |
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09 Sep 10 - 06:37 AM (#2982983) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Rob Naylor Not sure whether you'd call it a song or a tune or neither, but as a title I love Pink Floyd's "Several Species Of Small furry Animals Gathered Together In A Caved And Grooving With A Pict". Also, "If I could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You" Not to mention the Faces' "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)" And an old favourite from Gong's "Camembert Electrique" album, "Squeezing sponges Over Policemen's Heads". Love the imagery. |
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09 Sep 10 - 06:45 AM (#2982990) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Micca The Committee Band (UK) used to do a tune (which was played as the recessional at his funeral) called "Mike Mullin's Farewell to his Breakfast" |
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09 Sep 10 - 07:25 AM (#2983007) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Egg did a number called (if I can spell it all correctly) "The song of McGillicudie the pusillanimous or don't worry James your socks are hanging in the coal cellar with Thomas". More in the folk world is "My mother drowned in the pool at Lourdes" And translated from, I think, Swedish "The farmer's killed the taxman" |
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09 Sep 10 - 08:18 AM (#2983037) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST 'The Hair Fell Off My Coconut' (slide) Rog |
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09 Sep 10 - 08:53 AM (#2983052) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Fred McCormick Nobody ese seems to have mentioned, but The Stool of Repentance refers to the one time Scots Presbyterian practice of having to repent for ones sins to the elders of the kirk. Whatever, here's a few titles which have given me a laugh at one time or another. The Mosquitoes Have Eaten My Girlfriend. Cajun) The Cat That Kittled in Jamie's Wig. The Pensioner Who Kissed His Granny. O'Callaghan's Jig on the Top of Mount Everest. The Trip to The Jacks. Your Eyes Make me Want to Drink Tea. (Moroccan) Hooray, hooray, this woman is killing me. (Brownie McGhee & Sonnny Terry) |
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10 Sep 10 - 09:43 AM (#2983885) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Neil D "She Was Waiting For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh" Shawn Phillips "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" Roger Waters |
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10 Sep 10 - 10:41 AM (#2983920) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: mkebenn Can't belive no one mentioned Jerry Reed's "You got the gold mine( I got the shaft)" Mike |
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10 Sep 10 - 11:25 AM (#2983955) Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bernard 'Hold My False Teeth (and I'll teach you to dance!).' - Arthur Marshall |