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Just gotta laugh - funny folk songs
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Subject: Just gotta laugh From: sarah.rose Date: 23 May 99 - 01:36 AM Sorry but I need some funny folk songs. Most of the ones I know are really depressing. Help me out!!! |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Mark Roffe Date: 23 May 99 - 01:43 AM Take a listen to some of the Smothers Bros. earlier stuff. Lines like "Daniel Boone was a tractor and a trailer" always cracked me up. Good parodies of folk songs.
A little more shrewd brand of humor is in Malvina Reynolds stuff. Also recommend Tom Leher's adaptations. See also Allen Sherman, the Holy Modal Rounders, Kweskin's Jug Bank, Even Dozen Jug Band. For single-entendres check out Tampa Red. Barkus J. Woofey |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 23 May 99 - 09:21 AM Sarah (for you say your names not Ariel), If you go to the upper-right-hand corner of this thread, you will see the Digitrad Database (the DT). If you type in @humor you will get a list of 41 humorous (at least to Dick) songs. These are really just a start. The little @ sign indicates a "category". Dick and Susan of the DT have labelled each song as belonging to one or more categories. I don't know how you know what categories are listed, I just guessed "humor" would be one. Enjoy the music. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Alice Date: 23 May 99 - 09:27 AM Sarah, try searching @parody, too. |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Susan of DT Date: 23 May 99 - 02:18 PM I wouldn't say we labeled each song. And the categories are not terribly consistant. As something strikes us a needing a category, we start using it, without any sytematic search for older songs that might also use that category. Then I forget what we have and invent them as I go along, so I hope the categories are useful, but don't count on them being foolproof. |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 23 May 99 - 02:23 PM Susan, I'm appreciative as they do help at times, like with Sarah's request. I couldn't denote a pattern, but now I see that is because there is no pattern. I cannot fathom how much time you and Dick put into the DT, but I am grateful for the work you have done. Perhaps Max can put up a list of categories when he is done settling into his new digs. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Joe Offer Date: 23 May 99 - 09:35 PM You want a list of categories, Roger? Your Click Is My Command-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Wolfgang Date: 26 May 99 - 11:04 AM There's a song called 'Funny Man', I know it from Johnny McEvoy. Here are some lines:
Make me laugh 'til my body aches with pain, Sorry, but this thread made me think of this song. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 26 May 99 - 12:23 PM Joe, you never fail to impress me! Did you type up that list in just 6 hours? Or was it there all along? I like to think I notice everything, but obviously I don't. Where should I have found this list without you telling me? Just trying to get a Mudcat education. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Penny S. Date: 26 May 99 - 12:40 PM Allan Ahlberg's "The Mrs Butler Blues" from "Heard it in the Playground" Puffin. Only works if you're a teacher, but it's great fun? |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Wolfgang Date: 26 May 99 - 12:42 PM Roger, this list is just three clicks away (or, actually four, is you read this). click 1 (assuming you are on the main Forum page): Mudcat Cafe (upper left) click 2: Search The Digital Tradition Folksong database click 3: Select and Search From a List of Keywords. Sounds easy, but it took me 10 minutes to refind it and I had seen it before! Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Wolfgang Date: 26 May 99 - 12:44 PM shame on me, the Mudcat Cafe is clickable from here! |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Bert Date: 26 May 99 - 01:12 PM A few for now. The sow song Ilkey Moor baht 'at Widdecombe Fair Muck Spreading time Manura Manyah The Threshing Machine The Country Vicar Did you ever saw? Drunken Sailor Woad One more river to cross Bert |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Bert Date: 26 May 99 - 02:42 PM 'Smee again, up to my old tricks, shameless promotion of one of my songs. It's actually here in DT (Hey I'm famous) filed under @death but you just gotta laugh anyway. here http://www.mudcat.org/!!-song99.cfm?stuff=Oct98+D+9090209 Bert. |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Richard Bridge Date: 26 May 99 - 05:02 PM Most of Keith Christmas is serious but you might like his "Robin Head", for a laugh. Otherwise, if you're in England (Kent) check out Don WYSIWYG Thompson or the parodies of Clive Lever both from Hazlitt Folk,Maidstone, Kent. |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Fadac Date: 26 May 99 - 05:21 PM then there is the gouieduck song. A gouieduck is a big clam, dug in the pacific northwest. A line goes: He dosn't have a front, and he dosn't have a back, He dosn't know Donald, And he don't go QUACK. It takes a lot of pluck to go and dig a duck, A buck for a duck, thats the duck diggers pay. Dig a duck a day.
Or something like this. I'll get my memory refreshed tommrow night. |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: MudGuard Date: 27 May 99 - 01:44 AM Sick Note (Why Paddy's not at work today) |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: SailormomRita (inactive) Date: 28 May 99 - 12:41 AM Sam Hinton...Burl Ives and by all means The Smother's brothers. Rita |
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Subject: Lyr Add: HOPELESSLY MIDWESTERN (Joel Mabus)^^ From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 28 May 99 - 11:52 AM HOPELESSLY MIDWESTERN by Joel Mabus If you live life in the middle and not on the edge, You're hopelessly Midwestern. If a big weekend means cutting the hedge, You're hopelessly Midwestern. If you shop at Sears and drink a lot of iced tea, Love to dance the Polka and watch TV. Then the verdict is in and the jury agrees. You're hopelessly Midwestern. CHORUS: Hopelessly Midwestern, corn-fed boys and girls. Hopelessly Midwestern. square pegs in a big round world. Well, you can go from sea to shining sea, But right in the middle, that's the place for me. And if you like it like that then you're a lot like me, You're hopelessly Midwestern. If you like all of your roads, narrow and straight, You're hopelessly Midwestern. And if you think sushi looks a lot like bait. You're hopelessly Midwestern. If you like your potatoes mashed and your chicken fried, Your green beans boiled and your apples pied. And you ain't trusted nothin' since Rock Hudson died. You're hopelessly Midwestern. CHO: If annual rainfall is a real hot topic, You're hopelessly Midwestern. And if the Pocono Mountains sounds kind of exotic, You're hopelessly Midwestern. If you like Gerald Ford just as much as Betty, And a big old corn field looks mighty pretty. And you'd rather go to hell then to New York City. You're hopelessly Midwestern. CHO: ^^ If you want cheering up, a Joel Mabus CD is just the ticket. All of his songs are sincere and many of them are humorous. He is a real storyteller. He also is a nifty player of guitar and claw-hammer style banjo. Check him out here! Big RiB |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: MAG (inactive) Date: 31 May 99 - 12:47 AM I don't know who wrote this parody, but I heard it at Portland song Circle: I hate to rise when the sun she rises Early in the morning I hate to hear the small birds singing Merrily along the (dum dee dum -- word we just discussed) Oh, I hate the life of a country boy Who's allergic to the new mown hay. (Teresa Morgan does a great straight version on *If Fish Could Sing*.) -- MA |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 31 May 99 - 04:48 PM There's the series of "Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads" albums by Oscar Brand--I think there were six or seven of them, getting progressively racier as the series grew. There's the song "Doctor Freud": seed |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Susan of DT Date: 31 May 99 - 05:08 PM Fadac - That is in a sGooey Duck Mag - See Country Boy (2) - I searched for [hates to rise] |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Joe Offer Date: 31 May 99 - 06:19 PM Well, being a hopeless Midwesterner, my idea of a funny song is Shel Silverstein's OUR HOUSE (ALWAYS WELCOME ...). And I'm glad to see Dick & Susan have added the verse I contributed several years ago. Roger in Baltimore, do you have Midwestern roots? That song tells the story of my life. -Joe Offer, Midwesterner in exile in California- |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I'D LIKE TO BE A COWBOY From: Joe Offer Date: 31 May 99 - 06:36 PM I'D LIKE TO BE A COWBOY (This source says it's Public Domain, but I don't think so) One day we went to the rodeo. We wanted to see the cowboys rope and ride. We got excited as we watched the show. We jumped right up and down and then we cried. Chorus: I'd like to be a cowboy, but, ooh, I'm scared of cows, Moo, moo, moo how they scare me. I often try to face them, as in the field they browse, Moo, moo, moo how they scare me. I'd walk up to a lion, and smack him on the brow, I'd even kick a polecat, but don't ask me to punch a cow. Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo. Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo. Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo. Moo, moo, moo, how they scare me! I tried to milk a Hoistein, she acted like a fool. No matter how I coaxed her, she wouldn't sit down on the stool. Chorus Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo. Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo. Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo, Yikes! A cow once tried to chase me, across a field of corn. She bumped right into my guitar, and didn't even sound the horn! They'd like to all be cowboys, but ooh, they're scared of cows. (Moo, moo, moo, how they scare us!) They often try to face them, as in the fields they browse. (Moo, how they scare us!) Yippie ki-yi-i, yippi-yippie-ki-yi-a. Yippie, yipple Yippie-yippie-ki-a. Yippie, yippie, yippie-yippie-k-a! Click here and here for more Holstein Humor. -Joe Offer, Wisconsinite in exile- |
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Subject: RE: Just gotta laugh From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 31 May 99 - 10:29 PM No, Joe, Only did the Midwest passin' through. However, I was raised in rural Maryland in a county with a strong Germanic heritage. So the song speaks to me as well, but our roads aren't very straight around here. Of ocurse, Joel Mabus lives, I believe in Michigan. Don't know where he was raised. Big RiB |
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