The funniest songs you have ever heard II

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Bert
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 09:02 PM

"I love your private parts" by Vicky Vincennes is pretty funny.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Joe_F
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 06:05 PM

"Queen Anne Front" (in DigiTrad) is gentle humor.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: autoharpbob
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 10:31 AM

""Rufus & Beverly" (Lyn Hardy) recorded by the Rude Girls."
Agree its hilarious - but it is by Mark Graham, and Bryan Bowers has a great recording of it on "For You"
Almost anything by the late Jake Thackray, or Les Barker (Mrs Ackroyd)

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 08:18 AM

Leonard Cohen's One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong ! I refuse to believe that was NOT written as a Comedy Song !!

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 03:03 AM

Aaron Wilburn has some real funny ones. Check him out on youtube
Also check out Bowser and Blues new one called Speedo man also
on youtube. (I think there song called the colorectal surgeon has been mentioned but it is also worth checking out on youtube.
Another group called Pete and Wayne-check out their website and cds have some great tunes. There song I'm buying a seven eleven to stairway to heaven is great. As well the Rectum of the Ella Fitzgerald to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a classic. I get great responses to these.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Midchuck
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 04:34 PM

Although I may risk being accused of entering into a mutual backscratching conspiracy, I would suggest "I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore" - but Kendall's particular performance of it. The Down East accent is perfect for that.

Even if is IS Too Much Information.

"The Field of the Willows" is just about as good. I strongly recommend this new CD. I'm so glad those performances were preserved.

Peter.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: oldhippie
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 03:43 PM

Also, for an old song - "I'm My Own Grandpa"

Someone mentioned Billy C Wirtz, listen to "Big Bad Jess" pretty funny stuff.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Lighter
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 09:35 AM

Check out a contempo arrangement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_3C3OVkVQ

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Lighter
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 09:34 AM

Purple People-Eater.

Best title: "O'Brien is Tryin' to Learn to Talk Hawaiian (to His Honolulu Lou)" (Al Dubin, 1918).

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 07:49 PM

From "The Red Green Show" (Canadian television series that ran a whole 300 episodes and is still being played on some U. S. public television stations).

Arnie Doogen appears from time to time on the "Experts" portion of the show. He's a roofer by trade, but that's just his day job. He writes country songs (13,000 so far, he says) and he's just waiting for his singing career to catch on. He invariably appears with one leg in a cast and wearing a neck brace, the hazards of the roofing trade. He also has a guitar in his lap, which (when he introduces his latest song, much to the distress of Red and Harold), he plays it flat on his lap, strumming with his right hand, and playing chords with his left thumb (no complicated harmonies).

His songs seem more or less tuneless, and they neither rhyme nor scan, so he does them sort of like Gregorian chants while Red and Harold sit there looking slightly horrified.

This is one of his better ones, as well as I can remember it:

When you feel like a toad crossing the road of life
And everything that happens to you feels like a steel-belted radial,
As you lay there in a puddle of your assorted bodily fluids,
Just remember:   you made your mark.

It may be copyrighted, but I'm not sure anyone would actually want to take responsibility. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Smokey.
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 07:00 PM

'The Ballad of Billy Kershaw' - Jake Thackeray

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Clontarf83
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 06:04 PM

Overheard at a party in dublin: (tune is the girl i left behind me)

I will sing you a song that's not too long
Politicians have no fathers....

other favourites:
Lanigans ball
Don't pet the dog (Pinkard and Bowden)
Sister Clarissa (Michael Smith)
Zen Gospel Singing (Mark Graham)
Peeing in the snow (Buddy wasisname and the other fellers)

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Joseph de Culver City
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 05:35 PM

'Dear Abby'-John Prine

'Rehab' -Stew (The Negro Problem)

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: kendall
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 05:11 PM

Humor doesn't work that way.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 01:16 PM

I had to come up with a yardstick with which to measure these things. I've decided that, in order to qualify, a song has to be hilarious even after the fourth or fifth hearing. So many side-splitters have that effect once. How many convulse you after repeated playings?

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: kendall
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 09:55 AM

Mamma Fried by Woodchuck's Revenge.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Celtaddict
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 09:45 AM

Burl, Seamus Kennedy is still performing 'The Old Sow' regularly, and it cracks me up. I have to learn it for my nephew and granddaughter.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: mkebenn
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 09:12 AM

Steven's "Cow Patty" is a hoot.Shel's "Got stoned and missed it" would be hilarious if I hadn't lived it. Mike

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Golightly
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 04:24 AM

I'm very fond of the Austin Lounge Lizards singing Terry Allen's 'A Truckload of Art'

An important artwork
Was thrown burning to the ground
Tragically landing in weeds
And the smoke could be seen
For miles all around
But nobody knows what it means

But my current favourite, for its breathtaking bad taste, is 'You've Got Aids' from the cartoon Family Guy.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,jay
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 10:19 PM

Waylon Jennings sang a song called "Get Naked With Me". The song starts
out like a nice love tune, but then he gets to the chorus, and: "I don't
see why you don't get naked with me". It really cracks you up the first
time you hear it, because you're not expecting it by the way the verse
goes.
He also sang "Trouble Man", that starts out: "I was so ugly, the doctor
slapped my Mama when I was born. Then he took out his pocket knife, and
cut off my horns.
Ode To My Car by Adam Sandler is a great song, also.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 06:53 PM

When I was a boy we had among our 78's 'The Old Sow', a song with assorted grunts and whistles in the chorus. It cracked me up then, and it still does. I can't sing it any more because I can't do the whistle due to missing teeth, but if I hear someone else sing it I still find it hilarious.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Miserablist
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 06:39 PM

Never heard a 'funny' song that made me laugh more than once. Keep humour out of music, that's what I say!

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Nick E
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 06:38 PM

Here is a contender for me...
Don't know the title, and the punchline comes in the last line but it
involves a lass who becomes infatuated with a "Gypsy" with curly locks and hankerchief of blue. The gypsy sends her on her way because he is a gypsy and the girl is 8 years old. Luaughed out loud.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Woody wood
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:50 PM

Dr. Busker's 'Captain Beaky' is the funniest song in the world....no question about it.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Cragrat
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 12:02 PM

Kilkelly, Ireland just cracks me up. The perfect parody even if it was written straight.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Rog Peek
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 11:51 AM

When I was about 8 or 9yrs, me and the boy next door got his brother's 78s out to play them. One of the songs I think was called 'The Noisy Eater'. Anyone heard of it? It had us in stiches at the time, I don't know if I would find it funny now.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 11:28 AM

A Canadian duo named Bowser and Blue concocted a paean to an under-appreciated segment of the medical community with a little ditty called "Workin' Where the Sun Don't Shine" - AKA, "The Colorectal Surgeon's Song." It was actually composed for a conference of same at the request of the doctors. Apparently, they loved it.

"We praise the colorectal surgeon,
Misunderstood and much maligned;
Slaving away in the heart of darkness,
Workin' where the sun don't shine!"

I think I may have repressed the rest....

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 11:02 AM

Tho't of 3 other GUDens

Charlie Daniels - Easy Rider

Ray Stevens - Vacation Bible School
             [Smoky Mountain Rattlesnake Retreat]

Johnny Cash - Chattanooga City Limit Sign


if ya wanta hear them or Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel...

Email: [e-mail]

Hint: Ur server must be able to handle LARGE files

or I CUD shrink 'em fer ya.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Edmond
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 09:57 AM

Here's another couple of verses from "The Elephant's Bottom" - non-PC or what ?

There's plenty of room down inside
For bottles of beer if you've got'em (We've got 'em !)
And you should hear the laughs
When I blow out the froth
Through the hole, etc.

A nancy-boy came to the show
And before they could stop him
He'd shoved a great big bouquet (Through what ?)
Through the hole in the Elephant's Bottom !

The Pennine Folk used to do a great version, as did the Cheshire Folk. One Member of the Cheshire Folk used to get p*ssed off with "Audience Participation" (the bits in brackets).

Bryn Pugh

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 08:20 AM

My lunch hour is about to finish, so I'll leave it to the rest of you to think of some nominations by Colm Sands, Ritchie Kavanagh, Johnny Handle, Hamish Imlach, and Adam McNaughtan (maybe Cholesterol or Hamlet).
   The Duncan McFarlane band do a hilarious song about a computer.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: oldhippie
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 07:49 AM

Oh, and Hank Thompson's "The Night Miss Nancy Anne's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down"

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 06:59 AM

Eddie Bakers Bone Shaker,
sung by Bob Cleveland in the Ferryhouse at Burton on Stather brought the house down.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: alanabit
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 06:55 AM

Roy Zimmerman songs like "Dick Cheney", "Chickenhawk" and "Jerry Falwell's God" are making me chuckle at the moment. I think he is up there with Tom Lehrer. For his affectionate take offs of crazy and perverse people, I will always love Shel Silverstein. All those writers produced so many dynamite songs, it is hard to pick a favourite. My favourite line is probably from Silverstein's "Freakers' Ball", when he sings, "It feels so good it must be wrong..."

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Dana Lewis aka Carlos Borzenie jr.
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 06:31 AM

I made up this fictisous ( no such person) person called Carlos Borzenie Sr. of the Bounce Borzenies, some one had stoled a plack from a monument so i made a memorial plack & attached it to the monument in a San Francisco park. Starting an anual dedication
BUT
Dr Demento was having a song competion & you could only enter once.
My brother & I had written about 150 to 200 songs, so we entered with
as many names that we could think of, AND as luck would have it my made up character WON.

I held an annual park dedication for 8 years.
There is a lot more fun that took place ( at that time I did all of the booking & overall operation of the entertainment events at the Cow Palace - a 15,000 seat arena & 300,000 sq ft exhibit space )
The plack reads " BORZENIE MEMORIAL PARK Dedicated to Carlos Sr. who said 'The only things you miss in life are the things you have bit done' From the Brothers & Sisters"

My email is [e-mail] and would be glad to send you some pictures etc etc verifing it (free).

May all your days be Circus days.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 08:29 PM

Ballad of Minepit Shaw, A Chat with Your Mom, Christmas Goose, The Frozen Logger, Get Up and Go, Hippopotamus, The Good Boy, In the Bath, The Irish Ballad, The Lobster, Lolly Too Dum, Lumpytums, The Prodigal Son, Puttin' On the Style, The Sloth, Torelli.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 06:30 PM

Is this a hypothetical question?

I mean, how will I or anyone else know when we've heard 'The funniest song you have ever heard'

We'd only be able to have this info after we've gone deaf or died!

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: oldhippie
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 06:10 PM

"Rufus & Beverly" (Lyn Hardy) recorded by the Rude Girls.

Berryman's "Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus" - Country Dick Montana

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Scoville
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 03:43 PM

It's still "Twenty Naked Pentecostals".

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 03:38 PM

Cosmetheka ( that spelling must be incorrect!) used to do a old music hall song called " I've only come down for the day" which is very un-p.c. but always had me in tucks. Of course, they had a terrific way of delivering a song.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 01:43 PM

Cows With Guns by Dana Lyons

I could tell you stories about the cow revolution -- but I think you had to be there.....

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 01:34 PM

Haven't read every message but didn't see these anywhere:

"Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie -- more of a one song set in an act than a true song but it's funny as hell, especially if you "came of age" in the draft era (1970 plus or minus about 5 years) and had to take a draft physical. "The Motorcycle Song" was pretty good too.

Someone mentioned Ray Stevens and, yes, he had several albums worth of comical songs. I think my favorites may have been "Ahab the Arab" (very early in his career), "Along Came Jones" and "The Shriners' Convention."

On the Celtic music side, one of the best might be "Seven Drunken Nights." The version I have is by the Brobdingnagian Bards but I think it's been done by a lot of groups. The basic song is funny but the way it's performed adds a lot too, especially the way the Bards do it.

SC

Subject: Lyr Add: DA WATERBED WAS FILLED WIT GLUE DA ...
From: GUEST,MadDawg Norm SIegel
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 12:53 PM

There are tons, many of which I have performed. "Yippe Oy Vey Hoo Ha, Get Along Little Camels/Round Up Time in Israel" by Israeli singer Ron Eliran, anything by Tom Lerher, The Berryman's, Flanders & Swann, anything by Larry Rand, formerly of Chicago, and so may others too numerous to mention.

Here is one of Larry's

DA WATERBED WAS FILLED WIT GLUE DA NIGHT DAT I GOT STUCK WIT YA POLKA

My name is Stosh I am hip I got class and pride
I run de only head shop on Chicaga's Nort West side
But now I sing a different tune Sumpthin I bin true
Da waterbed was filled wit glue da night dat I got stuck wit ya polka

I taut youse was a hippie casue youse dressed dat way
I shoulda known dem shoppin bags sure gave you away
But a Peter Max Babuska misled me dear dats true
Da waterbed was filled wit glue da night dat I got stuck wit ya polka

When I tink about dat evenin udder people scoff
About da time we got it on and couldn't get it off
I won't admit ta being black but boy I sure am blue
Da waterbed was filled wit glue da night dat I got stuck wit ya polka

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: paddymac
Date: 26 May 05 - 08:52 PM

Ray stevens had quite a few, but I've always found the one about the squirrel getting loose in church to be one of the funniest I've ever heard.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 05 - 04:33 PM

Ghost Chickens in the Sky.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Joe Hill
Date: 26 May 05 - 11:19 AM

I can't believe no one has mentioned Adrian May. Hundreds of brilliant songs.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 May 05 - 10:54 AM

A year or so ago in Maine, I heard David Dodson do a song he had written involving yodeling and opera. I don't know the name of it, but how many could there be? I probably missed a good deal of the words, too, because I was laughing so hard. I'd love to hear it again, and if you ever get a chance to see David, ask him to sing it for you. Priceless.

Nancy

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Gurney
Date: 26 May 05 - 04:32 AM

About half of the songs I know are funny, including numbers from Flanders & Swann, Thackray, Lehrer, Skellern, and Tait, but the thing that almost made me burst something was a poem from Les Barker called 'Voicemail.' Hilarious until the punchline, then hold your stomach.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,si
Date: 26 May 05 - 03:43 AM

Hey has anyone got the lyrics to UNDER THE AARDVARK by that comic singer from London, Peter someone (?). heard it late one night at the cambridge FF but never since. God it's good.

Now as for all the other entries above - well great, but please provide links ( where available) so we can savour them too.

Oh, and to fly the flags for the Aussies , I have to mention THE SENSITIVE NEW-AGE COWPERSONS. here they are - www.cowpersons.com . Hmm didn't do that right did I. I would indeed quote some lyrix to take my own advice, but cannot find any on their site. Anyway they do lots of Abba a la bluegrass, oh and hendrix and others.

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: GUEST,Curious Clouseau
Date: 25 May 05 - 12:41 PM

Seamus Moore does a great version of Bang Bang Lulu called "Bang Bang Rosie".
Also good is Ronnie Barkers "Stuttering Bum" which always gets a laugh :o)

Subject: RE: The funniest song you have ever heard II
From: Trevor
Date: 25 May 05 - 09:15 AM

Snuffy singing Les Barker's 'Belle's Bonny Bogie' nearly did for me.

What about those old C&W favourites 'When You Leave Me Walk Out Backwards So I'll Think You're Coming In', 'I Tried To Drown My Sorrows But They've All Learnt How To Swim', and of course, best of all, 'I Call My Willie Nelson 'Cos He's Only Got One Eye'.

And does anybody remember the wendition of 'Cwying Over You' in an episode of 'Only Fools and Horses'?