The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2445   Message #2154790
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
22-Sep-07 - 04:24 AM
Thread Name: Kipper Family
Subject: RE: Kipper Family
It's not really a parody of one song, but all the 'I went walking in May and got pursued by ploughboys, Rogered coming home from the Wake, shagged senseless by Sailors just as the tide was flowing, ravaged by wraggle taggle gypsies-oh and f***d by Friars who should know better' songs.

Each verse is based on songs well known in the UK folk tradition - try getting hold of a copy of 'Marrow Bones' - the songs collected by Hammond & Gardiner in the UK, they're mostly in there.

Oddly enough, I've spent some time this week learning 'Coming home from the wake' - having Roger the Cabin Boy (name, not instruction) as a friend, I thought it would be funny to stand next to him and sing it.

LTS