When I first learned the song performed by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, I think on the Spontaneous Concert album with Pete Seeger whom I remember so fondly, The Old Orange Flute, I was unfamiliar with the anti-Papist songs the title flute kept playing after its owner converted to Catholicism - but I could hear the lyrics fairly well, I thought.

However, in looking up some lyrics ... I have just lately become aware that the song I thought was called "Boil Water!" that it freely would sound / when one papish squeak in it couldn't be found, was actually called BOYNE Water, and it isn't about contraception, it is about history.

So I would like to hear the song I imagined for the last 50 years! Can anybody write a funny song, set back in the 50's Irish folk music style or earlier, about having too many children? The one I imagined always went through a verse about Sean, who was born 8 and a half months after the wedding, an 8-pound preemie; Molly, who was born 9 months later after pulling out; Seamus 10 months later(rhythm method); the twins a year later after trying abstinence... maybe to the tune of Sweet Betsy from Pike/ that greyhound song / etc ...but that was my mind's ear...

Also, any other mondegreens worth writing songs about? Has anybody written where Kiss This Guy or Bathroom on the Right or Lady Mondegreen makes sense in the context of the other song?