The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42441   Message #1862879
Posted By: GUEST,DS
19-Oct-06 - 12:51 AM
Thread Name: Songs about truly pissed-off people
Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people
There's JIM JONES which might count more as bitter than pissed off. The last verse goes (from memory):

Oh it's day and night the irons clang and like poor galley slaves,
We toil and toil and when we die must fill dishonored graves,
But it's by and by I'll slip me chains and to the bush I'll go,
And I'll join the brave bush rangers there Jack Donohue & Co.
And some dark night when everything is silent in the town,
I'll shoot the buggers one and all - I'll gun the floggers down,
Oh I'll give the law no little shock remember what I say,
And they'll yet regret they brought Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay.

Cyril Tawney's FIVE FOOT FLIRT is pissed off:

You're my 5' flirt in the robes of an angel,
Ya better had leave I alone,
Why the way you're behavin' it nearly unnerves I,
The thing that preserves I is my joviality.
Though I've got trouble as thick as my stubble,
It's you that's the worst of them all,
So get out of me track and if ya wants to come back,
You can crawl, crawl, crawl.

Seems to me that writing something pissed off is like writing something bawdy or pornographic; it's easy compared to writing something clever that's pissed off, bawdy or pornographic.