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Subject: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Pene Azul Date: 09 Jun 00 - 03:44 PM This is the continuation of The funniest song you have ever heard! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: TheOldMole Date: 09 Jun 00 - 03:48 PM I didn't catch the initial thread, but Fred Koller does pretty well for me as a master of the funny song. I'd suggest two right off the bat -- "Shop shop" and "Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian." |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Date: 09 Jun 00 - 03:58 PM I see several votes for Spike Jones, so I'll put in a plug for his parody of TEA FOR TWO (In some secluded rendezvous ... Whoopee!) Funniest non-parody, HOW CAN I MISS YOU IF YOU WON'T GO AWAY? --- Johnny in Oklahoma City |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Date: 09 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM I'm new at this posting, missed the roll-over and then gave the wrong title ... it should have been COCKTAILS FOR TWO -- not Tea for Two. Funniest bluegrass song, how about THE SANTA FE LINE, to the tune of Turkey in the Straw. Wanna hear it? |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Hotspur Date: 09 Jun 00 - 10:02 PM Flanders & Swann--"the REeluctant Cannibal" Steve Martin does a song called "King Tut" that cracks me up...then there's a song my uncle introduced me to, it's called "Mama ain't dead, she's just playin' possum" |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Meadow Muskrat Date: 10 Jun 00 - 01:14 AM Pretty much anything by the Berrymans out of Madison, Wis. is hilarious but if I had to choose I'd pick "Your state's name here", a generic anthem or "The F word song" a treatise on stereotypes who use foul language. Come to think of it the song in which they translate a fictional language from a ventriliquist's dummy in my opinion is comic genius. You can't go wrong with any of their albums. By the way they are performing at the Old Song Festival in Altamont N.Y June23-25. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,April790 Date: 10 Jun 00 - 04:51 AM Surely you don't expect us to do just one?? *whine* Ray Stevens is a hoot, and Garrison Keilor makes up some really funny songs, and parodies of old songs. But the funniest song I've ever heard was "Where Oh Where," (from Hee-Haw, you know) sung in German by two serious college professors. I thought I'd die laughing. I wish I'd recorded it. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: mactheturk Date: 11 Jun 00 - 01:25 AM Anything by Martin Mull. I mean, this guy is very, very funny, also a fine guitarist. His song "White Man Sings The Blues" is a classic. Can't say enough about Martin. Be sure to pick up a copy of his album "SEX AND VIOLINS". Sincerely, Mac |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: dwditty Date: 11 Jun 00 - 07:41 AM I had forgotten about Martin Mull: Men Dirty Words Noses Run in My Family |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MY WIFE LEFT TOWN From: dwditty Date: 11 Jun 00 - 07:53 AM Just thought of one. I can't remember who did it though. My Wife Left Town My wife left town with a banana Life's a rotten deal I found that yellow sucker hiding in her purse He's cold and hard, but he's got appeal I hope it never happens to you Some fruit breaks your marriage in two My wife left town with a banana She slipped away My wife left town with a banana I'm a jealous man She found a six inch Latin lover Now she does the tango with her right hand Right now I could just die He's eating my banana cream pie My wife left town witth a banana She slipped away |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Rick Fielding Date: 11 Jun 00 - 12:48 PM Gotta admit the first time I heard Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag" I almost fell down laughing. Rick |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: mactheturk Date: 11 Jun 00 - 09:45 PM Try Alex Beaton's "Daft Ditties" on Glenfinnan Records if your in the mood for some randy pub tunes... My favorites there are; "Seven Drunken Nights", "Wee Castanettes" and "The Jolly Tinker." MP |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Bobert Date: 19 Jan 02 - 07:39 PM "Joe, I hear you been laying my old lady" by James Lee Stanley. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Madam Gashee Date: 19 Jan 02 - 07:54 PM A few of us went up to Llantrisant folk club on Wednesday to hear Jack "The Bard" Sullivan. He sang a lotta funny stuff. Especially liked Hand in Hand, creased me! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Ebbie Date: 19 Jan 02 - 08:59 PM Steve Goodman and Shel Silverstein and Randy Newman are among those who wrote hilarious, well-crafted songs. One of the musicians who comes here for music every Friday night sings them all so we are all learning them. Whether bawdy or thought provoking, all of them stand out. Eb |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Susanne (skw) Date: 19 Jan 02 - 09:18 PM I don't think 'Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun' has been mentioned! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:03 PM Any one of many by Jake Thakray of the British Isles! I belive that his very funniest of all might be "Sister Josephine". 2 others that come to mind: "When Ulysses Comes Home" and "On Again, On Again, On" Eric Bogle's "He's Nobody's Moggie Now" and his "Plastic Paddy". As for the one he wrote about not being "willin' to sing Bob Dylan", I heckled some folk club president unmercifully while he was singing that one, and then got up on stage after him and made SURE to sing a couple of Dylan songs, just for him. He was a pretentious git, anyway, making fun of Mr. Bob like that. Bob's version of "Barbara Allen" would make his version sound like a piece of soggy milquetoast. :-) A number of Dylan's songs from the 60's have some very biting humour and irony in them, although they are not strictly funny songs as much as they are a form of social satirical comment...and "exercises in tonal breath control", of course. - LH |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:24 PM Either The Hole In The Elephant's Bottom or Boiled Beef and Carrots by the Buskers. Anybody remember them? Jerry |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Bert Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:42 PM Aha I'd forgotten that one "We kept them at bay with an Oerliken Gun through the hole in the elephant's bottom" Methinks I'm gonna have to learn that. Anyone got the words? |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Genie Date: 19 Jan 02 - 11:38 PM Some of the songs I've found funniest include: •Flanders and Swan - The Hippopotamus Song; Tonga; etc. •Gunslinger (Sung by the Limelighters) •The Merry Minuet (written by Sheldon Harnick of "Fiddler On The Roof" fame) •Zeke Hoskins, a B.C. transplant to Bellingham, WA, has lots of funny songs, e.g. - "Blow the Horn Loudly and rev up the truck; we're off to the boondocks to murder the duck!" (D. K. the title) •Tom Lehrer--especially The Irish Ballad and the Vatican Rag •Walkin' 'Round In Women's Underwear •Betsy Wells's "How Can I Keep From Purring" is pretty funny, too. •Lydia, the Tattooed Lady (by the same guys who wrote "Over The Rainbow," E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen) •You Can't Get A Man With A Gun (Irving Berlin) •Saturday Night (Tom Paxton) I agree about Martin Mull. For a briefgot a cable show of his and I wish I had taped it, because he had some hilarious songs. Does anyone know where I can get hold of them? BTW, from a post by Jill in the previous thread, it was mentioned that "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Doctor!" by Ted Snyder and Irving Berlin would have been especially shocking in "the Victorian era." I'm curious as to when this song was written. Many of Berlin's songs were written in the 20's and early 30's. The "Roaring 20's" didn't get that name by being "Victorian." A lot of movies and songs from that era were downright risqué (not by comparison to today's rap music, of course, but by comparison with the 1940's and '50's, for example). Genie |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: 53 Date: 20 Jan 02 - 12:03 AM WHO'S MAKING LOVE TO YOUR OLD LADY, WHILE YOU'RE OUT MAKING LOVE. SHAME, SHAME. BOB, SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS I HAD THE CAPS BUTTON LOCKED AND IT WAS EASIER TO CONTINUE THAN TO STOP AND START OVER, HOPE YALL FORGIVE ME. OH AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE CALLED, I AIN'T GONNA DO THE BUMP WITH NO BIG FAT WOMAN. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: kendall Date: 20 Jan 02 - 06:27 AM I dont look good naked anymore. written by Sheb Wooley. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: alanabit Date: 20 Jan 02 - 07:07 AM Plenty of mentions for Tom Lehrer, Shel Silverstein and Jake Thackery here - and quite rightly too. I particularly like Lehrer's "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" - not least of all because of its breathtaking bad taste! Another favourite of mine, who hasn't been mentioned yet, is Jeremy Taylor. His song "Liberal Man" does a devastating demolition job on those lefties among us who take ourselves too seriously..."I hate him and I loathe him the fathead lah di dahdian/I've a mind to go and thrash him with my copy of The Guardian"... There has also recently been a thread on Miles Wootton, who is another of our national treasures. If anyone can dig me up the words for "The Senile Delinquent" I'll be delighted. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE HOLE IN THE ELEPHANT'S BOTTOM From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 20 Jan 02 - 07:55 AM THE HOLE IN THE ELEPHANT'S BOTTOM I know is:
I wanted to go on the stage
Last night, I had some bad luck
My part it is not very long
There's another verse which only part of comes to mind. Reducing it to words on a computer screen effectively takes most of the humor out of it, though. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: gnu Date: 20 Jan 02 - 08:04 AM "Kinda Lonely in the Saddle Since My Horse Died"... which is actually the whole song... it's the setup and delivery, with only one strum of the strings. Don't recall who did it. Same for the next one. "Hangman Slack That Rope" is my all-time fav and the only blues tune I ever sang... again, delivery and sincerety are the keys... Hangman, slack that rope. Hangman, slack that rope. I said, hangman, hangman, hangman, hangman, Hangman, slack that rope. Cause there ain't gonna be no hangin today, I said, hangman, slack that aacccchhhh!!! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: breezy Date: 20 Jan 02 - 08:56 AM My landlady made sandwiches for me tra lala But I went out and forgot 'em tra la la So at matinee, she easies a tray Throuh the ho I've another 2 verses as well Hear it at The silver cup on Friday, Harpenden Herts |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: John Hardly Date: 20 Jan 02 - 10:14 AM Chuck Brodsky's "Blow 'Em Away" I think someone mentioned "Put Another Log On The Fire" in the other thread (I read it last night --that sucker is LONG) |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Fasteddy Date: 20 Jan 02 - 10:53 AM And nobody mentioned Tom Paxton's Talkin Vietnam or The ballad of Spiro Agnew! -- How about Phil Ochs' Ballad of Nixon and Agnew? And then there's Watt Nicol's gem about 'A wedding tween a lassie and a 'Sodjer hame oan leave' although you have to be from Glesga or surrounding hellhole to understand this one! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Seth from China (now USA) Date: 20 Jan 02 - 02:16 PM After thirty five years, I still laugh when Dylan sings " It balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine...", but the funniest song I ever heard is " Roberta, get your big leg offa me" by the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz. I almost wrecked my car when I heard that on the radio one night. I also like Peter Stamfel(?) " Surfin'Angel". |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Jan 02 - 02:19 PM Chuck Brodsky's "Blow 'Em Away" is a flippin' masterpiece! There are actually some folks who take it seriously and launch protests against the song on the basis that it celebrates and encourages irresponsible driving and road rage! Now that is almost as funny as the song itself... - LH |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Midchuck Date: 20 Jan 02 - 03:00 PM Has anyone mentioned Pat Sky's Songs That Made America Famous? More concentrated bad taste and political incorrectness than in any one album ever made. I love it. Not quite on topic, an old friend who played the bars in our area for many years used to get requests for the MTA song, to the point that he got quite sick of it. When he thought he could get away with it, he modified one verse slightly...
Charlie's wife goes down to the Scollay Square station, Peter. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST Date: 20 Jan 02 - 06:03 PM The Scotsman-looking at his winner with the blue ribbon! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: John Hardly Date: 20 Jan 02 - 08:19 PM ...that motorcycle, he's ridin' between He's splittin' lanes (if you know what I mean) Well, this cuttin' in line? That's an act of war. I see him comin'..... ........I open my door! Knock him over, pull out my pistol, an' blow him away! |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Arjay Date: 20 Jan 02 - 08:34 PM "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More" by Kinky Friedman. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Genie Date: 31 Jan 02 - 03:09 AM Jill, If you view the 1920's as "Victorian," check out this link about the early Betty Boop TGenie |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: nager Date: 31 Jan 02 - 04:24 PM Just about anything by Yorkshire's Jack Thackray...remembered by many of us for songs like The Cactus, On Again On Again, Sister Jospehine, Isabelle Makes Love Upon National Monuments, The Bantam Cock, the list is just about endless. Magnificent talent. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 31 Jan 02 - 04:45 PM Didn't check the earlier thread so these may be mentioned there - The One on the Left is on the Right, from Johnny Cash; Reality is Bad Enough, from Pat Sky, My Piano Has Been Drinking, from Tom Waits, The Coconut, from Nilsson, I think, The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down, from Hank Thompson and also Tex Williams, and the Christmas parody The Restroom Sign Said Men. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 31 Jan 02 - 04:48 PM And among the older songs, The Cat Came Back, Some Little Bug Is Going To Get You Someday, and Thais. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Murph10566 Date: 31 Jan 02 - 05:20 PM Been checking the thread, and I couldn't find a mention of Christine Lavin, who's written some hilarious stuff... a great performer and a real delight in concert ! I also agree heartily with the posts for Eric Bogle and John Prine as well... I do recall an old rugby tune entitled "Mary Sue Barnes"... this was SO raw, that my group would save it for the Last song of the Last set of the Last time we knew we'd be playing at a particular Pub... it usually worked... Murph |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Coyote Breath Date: 31 Jan 02 - 08:56 PM Another Peter Stampfel song: "When the Ice Worms Nest Again." and Tom Lerher's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park". CB |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: E.T. Date: 31 Jan 02 - 09:22 PM Flanders & Swann - don't know the actual title - but it starts "I found a French horn and I started to play it, I found a french horn in a second hand shop. I found a french horn and I started to play it - in spite of the neighbors who begged me to stop." So they finally spirit away the horn - and he take up the Tuba instead! Blat! Blat! Some time later I found that the tune he's singing to is indeed the e flat Horn concerto (and I find myself singing along to the classical station which is a hoot).
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: Lepus Rex Date: 31 Jan 02 - 10:36 PM Hmm. Probably "Sex Cow" by GWAR, on their best cd, "Carnival of Chaos". Here's a taste: "Down in the dark where the wild things grow We're in there where the people don't go Licking and sticking and piercing the pud Blowing and hoeing and covered in mud We don't care what the people say Every day is tree frog day Still they say we live in scuz land But that's where I met my cuzband SEX COW! SEX COW! SEX COW!" Beautiful! Well, I like it. Once you love Sex Cow, ain't nothin' gonna be the same. I was going to name something off of Bruce McCulloch's "Shame Based Man," but the really funny tracks aren't actually songs, so... ----Lepus Rex
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,hutch21734@ruralcomm Date: 23 May 05 - 12:49 PM does anyone have the words to I don't look good naked any more by Sheb Wooley |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Date: 23 May 05 - 02:52 PM 'The Death of Queen Jane'. My wife, Jane, heard it for the first time when she was pregnant and thought it was hilarious. 'Coot oopen moy soide and Foind Moy Bay-Bee'... Priceless. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: lesblank Date: 23 May 05 - 03:15 PM To Guest 21734@ruralcomm PM me your email address and I'll send it to you. |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: mandoleer Date: 23 May 05 - 06:24 PM No-one's mentioned Dave Summers - author and performer of such gems as 'They're emptying their dogs out down our street', and 'The Belly Button Fluff song'. Or Les Barker, with 'The William Patel Overture' (poppadum poppadum poppadum dum dum), Earwig O, In the Gateaux, Hunting the Wren and others too numerous to mention. We used to do Sister Josephine many years ago - never knew who wrote it! And I still like and sometimes perform 'Black Widows in the Privy', but not to the original tune which I can't remember. I use something rather Christmassy sounding with a bit of Chopin to finish off. Probably the only person to play Chopin on the mandolin balalaika.... |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NIGHT MISS NANCY ANNE'S HOTEL FOR ... From: GUEST Date: 24 May 05 - 03:57 AM I second ARKIE's pick of TEX WILLIAMS recording of: THE NIGHT MISS NANCY ANNE'S HOTEL FOR SINGLE GIRLS BURNED DOWN Now Miss Nancy Ann ran a boardin' house with a faded sign that read "Single Rooms For Single Girls" "No Men Allowed", it said But rumor had it that a gentleman with a yen for love for a fee Could always go to Nancy Ann's for some feminine company Well one night in June in the Billiard Room I was chalking up with a friend He was set to break when the door burst open and Leo James rushed in He yelled there's a fire that's just broke out and it's down at Nancy Ann's So we dropped our cues on the poolroom floor and down the street we ran CHORUS Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick not a single life was lost And the reason for the blaze was never found But it long will be remembered in our local history As the fire that fairly scandalized the town The night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls burned down When we got to the place the front was a blaze and so was the second floor So we cut around the side and up the alley and stopped a-side the back door We were catchin' our breath when the door flew open and knocked poor Leo flat And out through the smoke ran Mayor Wills wearin' nothing but a black silk hat And right behind him with his shirt tail afire came the local chief of police And banker Jones with the red-haired girl he always said was his niece And then I spied Miss Nancy Ann herself helping someone else out of the fire Her arm around the red bald head of old Judge McEntire A deacon, a dentist, a deputy sheriff, and one state congressman The county physician, the city mortician, out through the flames they ran The grand parade of girls in gowns and hat claid gentlemen Through the thick gray smoke that certainly smelled like french perfume and gin CHORUS Now everybody was out at the girl's hotel by the time the roof caved in We were headin' back to the billiard hall when Leo turned to my friend He said I believe that's the funniest show I've ever seen in town The so called elite caught out in the street with their pompous purity down CHORUS [Ray Stevens XEROX CHRISTMAS LETTER is a hillarious also] gene |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: gnu Date: 24 May 05 - 09:26 AM Anyone mention Moxy Fruvous? |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: gnu Date: 24 May 05 - 09:31 AM ...or Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers? |
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Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II From: frogprince Date: 24 May 05 - 06:42 PM There are already some votes in for Lou and Peter Berryman material. Their "Uncle Dave's Grace" is way up there on my list. |
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