Did you guys ever find the Mickey parody? It's (Click).
I admit I've sung it a few times, but only for audiences that aren't too discriminating.
-Joe Offer-
Although the song is in the DT and has been posted here from various Websites, I find that the lyrics from the Steve Briggs Stan Rogers Website are superior transcriptions. So, here are the lyrics from an archive copy of the Briggs Website:The Stan's Songs Parodies Page
At the request of Ariel Rogers, I've taken off all but Ian Robb's parody. Ariel says of Stan and his lyrics: "...(many people don't realize) how important his lyrics were to him. He sweat blood and burned the midnight oil for a lot of those pieces. They were a part of him. While highly funny, even Stan wasn't all that crazy about 'Garnet's Home Made Beer' and thus never encouraged it's being sung."The Last Of
Garnet's Home Made Beer
© Ian Robb
(Released on the CD - FROM DIFFERENT ANGELS 1994). This is a parody of the Stan Rogers song "Barrett's Privateers"
Oh the year was 1978 [ How I wish I'd never tried it now ]
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you've ever seen
Chorus:
God damn them all! I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold
We'd feel no pain; shed no tears
But it's a foolish man who shows no fear
at a glass of Garnet's home made beer
O Garnet Rogers cried the town
For twenty brave men, all masochists
who would taste for him his home made brew
[ chorus ]
This motley crew were a sickening sight
There was "caveman Dave" with his eyes in bags
He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags
[ chorus ]
We hadn't been there but an hour or two
When a voice said "Gimme some home-made brew!"
And "Steeleye Stan" hove into view
[ chorus ]
Now "Steeleye Stan" was a fighting man
He was eight foot tall & four foot wide
Said "Pass that jug or I'll tan yer hide!"
[ chorus ]
Stan took one sip and pitched on his side
Garnet was smashed with a gut-full of dregs
And his breath set fire to both me legs
[ chorus ]
So here I lie with me 23rd beer
It's been 10 years since I felt this way
On the night before me wedding day
Internet Discussion
Subj: funny song
Hello everyone. While looking around the newly revamped Digital Traditions Database (http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html), I found this loving tribute to The Mary Ellen Carter. Some people may think it offensive, but Stan had a great sense of humour and I personally think that he would have liked it.
Date: Wed, Oct 30, 1996 7:46 PM EDT
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At 2:09 PM 30/10/96, Katherine Belyea wrote:
Subj: Re: funny song
Date: Wed, Oct 30, 1996 10:08 PM EDT
From: (A. Marina Fournier)
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>Hello everyone. While looking around the newly revamped Digital Traditions Database (http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html), I found this loving tribute to The Mary Ellen Carter. Some people may think it offensive, but Stan had a great sense of humour and I personally think that he would have liked it.
*I* think he would have roared with laughter and taught it to his son....This is GREAT! but maybe you have to have had toddlers for this to be really funny. I can just see Joe Blau and me with our sons (separately, mind you--we're not married to each other, nor do we live close enough) corrupting their minds with THIS version.
Speaking of spiders, there's been a humongous (3" across) one trying to spin a web in the entryway the past two nights, and Arthur's not sure of this. We had to put the mechanical ghost in the box for a "nap" because it was all of a sudden bothering him. So he thinks the spider's having a nap on the roof. I have to admit, I HATE spiderweb in the face.
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