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Songs About Hell
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Grab Date: 09 Jul 01 - 05:42 PM IIRC, Joan Baez did a trad song called "Mountains of Hell". "Devil went down/back to Georgia" kind of qualify. Isn't there one ("The farmer's wife"?) where the devil takes this man's wife down to hell and then returns her bcos he can't take any more? And of course there's more rock/metal songs than I can think of - I used to be a big Iron Maiden fan, and I can think of quite a few (particularly off the Seventh Son album). Graham. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Aidan Crossey Date: 09 Jul 01 - 12:01 PM And how could I have forgotten "Boys From The County Hell" and "Back In The County Hell" by Shane MacGowan from "Red Roses For Me" and "The Crock Of Gold" respectively. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: CRANKY YANKEE Date: 09 Jul 01 - 04:35 AM By the Way, There are at least two Opera about people going to Hell. My Favorite Opera, (By my favorite Composer) is Mozart's "Don Giovanni". In the end, The Horrid Don Giovanni refuses to repent and is dragged straight down to Hell, kicking and screaming all the way (He deserved nothing better). Everyone else winds up in Purgatory, except Leporrello, Don G.'s servant and henchman who finally has enough of the Horrid Don and and tells him so. At least this is the way the only production that I've seen, ends. I saw the version that was produced by Peter Sellars (Not the funny actor, another one) and I was on the edge of my seat throughout the entire production. It was on Television here with English Subtitles. Get an English translation of the libretto and go see it. It's some piece of work. I guess this qualifies as a song about Hell (a very long song indeed) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HARRY POLLITT From: CRANKY YANKEE Date: 09 Jul 01 - 04:14 AM Harry Pollitt was a member of the British Communist Party, which oddly enough, supports the Monarchy. As I understand it, Harry did not approve of this support and raised quite a row. So, they kicked him out of the party and wrote a song about him, as if he were dead. Each verse of this has the same little tag on it, as I'll put in the first verse. The last bar of each verse repeated twice followed by the entire second line. HARRY POLLITT (by ?) I Harry Pollitt was a worker. he was one of Lenin's Lads. He was cruelly murdered by those counter-revolutionary cads. Counter-revolutionary cads, counter-revolutionary cads, He was cruelly murdered by those counter-revolutionary cads. II He ambled up to Heaven and got there with all ease, Saying, "May I speak with Comrade God? I'm Harry Pollitt, please." II "Who are you?" said Saint Peter. "Are you humble and contrite?" "I'm a friend of Lady Astor's." "Well, O.K., that's quite all right." III They put him in the choir, but the hymns he didn't like, So he organized the angels and he led them out on strike. IV One day the Lord was strolling around Heaven to meditate, When who did He see but Harry, chalking slogans on the gate? V Well, they hauled him up for trial before the Holy Ghost, For spreading disaffection among the Heavenly Host. VI The verdict it was "Guilty" and Harry said, "Ah, well," Then he tucked his nightie around his legs and he ambled down to Hell. VII Now, seven long years have passed and old Harry's doin' swell. He's just been made "first people's commissar of Soviet Hell." VIII There's a moral to this story. 'Tis easy for to tell: If you want to be a Bolshevik, you'll have to go to Hell. You'll have to go to Hell, you'll have to go to Hell, If you want to be a Bolshevik, you'll have to go to Hell. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: CRANKY YANKEE Date: 09 Jul 01 - 03:42 AM |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Tom D. Date: 09 Jul 01 - 02:24 AM Chuck Berry (!) did a great rendition of "That Down Bound Train" which I have also heard done as a recitation. Great guitar work on the Berry rendition. Begins with "A Stranger lying on a bar room floor had drank so much, he couldn't drink no more...." There is also a tune along similar lines from the 1960'S(?) with the refrain "Mr. Conductor, where are we going.." which laos pertains to the infernal regions. Tom D. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: GUEST,Elise Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:12 PM Dave Carter wrote a song called "Texas Underground" about hell in Texas. It is very funny; this is just one part: Down came a shipment of used car salesmen smilin' like rattlesnakes Every politician in the whole damn country claimin' there was some mistake Lawyers and thieves and state police Gentlemen of the press Cons and flunkies, slackers, junkies Agents of the IRS Welcome to Texas Underground We got a barbeque all year round... This song is on his Snake Handlin' Man cd; don't know if it's available anymore. He still does the song in concert, though. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Snuffy Date: 08 Jul 01 - 07:41 PM 'Tortoise From Hell' by Les Barker Lyke Wake Dirge Three Jolly Rogues |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: GUEST,derrymacash on another computer Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:38 PM Killieburne Brae ... great And check out Aidan Crossey's tune "Away to Hell" at Aidan Crossey's Original Tunes
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Geoff the Duck Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:07 PM Chris Rea's Road to Hell was actually about the M25, the motorway which encircles London - known variously as the Biggest Roundabout in England / Biggest Traffic Jam / Car Park..... etc. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:51 PM Not to mention House Carpenter... |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: toadfrog Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:34 PM Let's see. There is of course SMOKED HIS CIGAR And there is one my mother used to sing. I can't recall most of the lyrics (and have to give the nonsense syllables phonetically, but in part like this: He asked the devil-um for an ice-cream sodium Hally,hally hoolium, old Ram Juram! Oh, said the devil-um, this ain't no hotel-ium! Hally,hally hoolium, old ram juram! Any one know more about it? |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Nerd Date: 08 Jul 01 - 01:40 PM There's a great French song called "Quand Je Menai mes chevaux boire" in which a young man returns to his village to find out his lover has died. He rushes to the church where she tells him "they have saved the next seat in hell for you." Scary. There's also the cajun song "Les Flammes D'enfer" that just about every major Cajun band has recorded. There's "The Devil and Bailiff McGlynn" in which the devil catches the Bailiff and takes him to hell. In "Boys of Bedlam" the narrator says "I went down to Pluto's (or sometimes Satan's) kitchen to beg some food one morning/and there i got souls piping hot, upon the spit a-turning." In "The Maid and the Palmer," the Maid is condemned to "run as an ape through hell." The Devil and the Feathery Wife is another with a similar theme to the Farmer's curst wife, but different! |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: wildlone Date: 08 Jul 01 - 12:49 PM Pete Coe does a Trevor Carter song called the "PR man from hell" on his album Long Company,BASH CD45 on the backshift label |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Celtic Soul Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:44 AM "Captain Tractor" does one called "Go to hell" that is quite fun. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Folkdoctor Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:08 AM If you go to Folk Legacy Records and find a man named Grant Rogers, he wrote a song about hell. He learns about it in Sunday School but he does not quite grasp the meaning, it sounds interesting, he thinks he would perhaps like to send his mother in law, then I remember the last verse says: Now whenever them peddlers come to town With Something new to sell I walk right up to them and say Take your junk and go to Hell oh yeah Take your Junk and go to hell This man was a tremedus talent, Songs Like Bessie The Heffer the Queen of all the cows In the morning She Gives Pasturized In the Evening it's Homogenized Oh Bessie The Heffer the Queen of all the Cows I don't know if there is a CD? I have the old LP and could find out if anyone is really interested Folkdoctor |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Benjamin Date: 08 Jul 01 - 12:19 AM I think Poison did a song called Valley of Lost Souls. Come to think of it, they also did one called Come Hell or High Water. I'm not sure either of these are really about hell though. I have to agree with Alex about this. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Edmund Date: 07 Jul 01 - 11:30 PM 70 years ago we pre-teen age kids used to think the following ditty amusingly wicked Johnny got into the bucket The bucket went down in the well His wife cut the rope to the bucket And Johnny went down into ..... Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding tra la la la The music my darling comes from afar Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding tra la la la He played on his Spanish guitar. When Johnny got down into Hades He was as meek as a lamb He stepped om a red hot pitchfork And said "Well I'll be ............ Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding tra la la la The music my darling comes from afar Ding dinh ding ding ding ding ding tra la la la He played on his Spanish guitar. Oh well ... remember .. I didn't start this thread Edmund |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 07 Jul 01 - 11:01 PM Road to Hell-Chris Rea. |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: mousethief Date: 07 Jul 01 - 10:52 PM And Norman's "666" is the best song ever about the antichrist. But then again that's not about Hell either, is it? Hell isn't exactly the sort of song that makes people write wistful, nostalgic pieces. Further, people who believe in it (and fear it) wouldn't think it funny, and people who don't believe in it wouldn't think it worth singing about, more or less. Didn't AC/DC or one of those groups do a song about "We're on the highway to hell" or something of the sort? Alex |
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Benjamin Date: 07 Jul 01 - 10:34 PM Larry Norman's Wish We'd All Been Ready is a haunting song. Okay, so it's about the end of the world. The topics are related. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HELL (from The Squirrel Nut Zippers) From: Matt_R Date: 07 Jul 01 - 10:34 PM In the afterlife You could be headed for some serious strife Now you make the scene all day But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay People listen attentively I mean about future calamity I used to think the idea was obsolete Until I heard the old man stamping his feet This is a place where eternally Fire is applied to the body Teeth are extruded and bones are ground Then baked into cakes which are passed around Beauty, talent, fame, money, refinement Top skill and brain But all the things you try to hide Will be revealed on the other side Now the D and the A and the M and the N and the A And the T and the I-O-N Lose your face, lose your name Then get fitted for a suit of flame --Squirrel Nut Zippers
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Subject: RE: Songs About Hell From: Jon Freeman Date: 07 Jul 01 - 10:16 PM I love the Dalesman's Littany - may have been brought up in Hull thread (I never opened it)...
From Hull and Halifax and Hell reckon we need a Halifax thread too now. Jon |
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Subject: Songs About Hell From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Jul 01 - 10:13 PM Who cares about Hull? How about Hell? There have got to be a ton of songs about the place. One that comes to mind is "The Farmer and the Devil". Burl Ives did a neat job on that one. Got any other good ones, folks? - LH
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