And now for a song from Dale Dengate. Dale carries on the Dengate parody tradition, unfortunately for this thread, most of her parodies are poems.

A PARODY MUG MYSTERY by Dale Dengate, 2020 Tune: Adaption of Streets of Forbes.

video of Marion Henderson singing "Streets of Forbes" 1966

Come all of ye Figgy folk,
And a sorrowful tale I’ll tell.
Concerning of Mike Martin,
From Candelo he came.

Mike strode into the tent and said:
Concerning Dengate’s mug,
I have a parody, I wrote
Then he began to quote:

Mike dreamt he was in parliament.
It was a dream of joy.
For everyone was honourable.
The type you would employ.
And so it went until he woke,
To cheers from bleating YOUS.

All in that year of 2-0-1-5,
There was many a clever verse
But the judge declared that Mike had won,
So called upon Sircomraderuss.
But as he rose, a tear he shed
He’d lost the Dengate’s mug.
I stood it on the bar, he said,
But it’s no longer there.

So Mike ne’re got ol’ Dengate’s mug
Although he won that day.
The years rolled on and Covid came
And kept us all at home.

So Comraderuss took to his shed
And into boxes dove.
’Twas there he found the battered mug.
Where it had hid for years,
So now at last this song can end
And Mike might get his mug.

Figgy Folk is a session run by Illawarra Folk Club, on zoom last year, but now live.
John & Dale Dengate Parody Competition, Illawarra Folk Festival, 2014 to 2017