Songs that make you laugh out loud

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Elmore
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 12:18 PM

"Squalor" by Lou and Peter Berryman

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Hannah
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 10:17 AM

Fuck her gently by tenacious d   

The first time i heard this song i had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. Listen and enjoy !! X

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 15 May 01 - 02:31 PM

I truly loved England the 4 years I was there, found the English people to be a very likeable lot.
But, Name-wise, they don't know how to spell (or read whichever is the case) Chelmondelay (pronounced "Chumley") SaintJohn (sinjin), and the clincher, FEATHERINGSTONHAUGH (Fanshaw)

We don't either, for instance Arkansas, Houston, Texas, Maryland etc.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE COMMON MARKET COMES TO STANTON-D
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 15 May 01 - 02:23 PM

Adge Cutler's, "When the Common Market Comes to Stanton-Drew"

I
Now folks 'round here they say, We'll have to change our ways
Papers say so, guess it must be true
We'll have to take a chance with Germany and France
And live like all them furrin people do.
Iwonder if they'll put the Eifel tower on "Harp Tree Hill"
And "gondolers" down on the river "Chew". ,
Shall us all drive on the right and drink up all the night,
When the Common Market comes to Staunton-Drew"?

II
Now people seem to think they're goin' to change the drink
Rumors' flyin' and they could be right
Some say they seen a tank of Portugese "vin-blank"
Jammed in "pensford High Street" t'other night.
They say that port and brandy will sell for a bob a quart
And "The Druid's Arms" won't close 'til "ver-nigh" two.
And we'll all drink caviar out of a g'ert big gallon jar
When the Common Market comes to Staunton-Drew

III
Now when market time comes 'round down at the pub they'll all be found
Jammin' up the public bar all day
And you won't get through the doors, "fer" Moe-seers" and "Sig-noors" arguin' on the price of summer hay.
With Bristol full of Belgians, and Dighton full of Dutch
why the "Farrun" (?) farmers won't know what to do,
And we may see old "Dee Gall" with a wagon load of coal
When the Common Market comes to Staunton-Drew.

IV
As for what we eat, we must export more meat
Send them all our best prime beef and ham
While we do stuff our guts with "Trannsylvania" nuts
And garlic flavored processed German Spam.
When "George" comes home from milkin'
He'll get a big surprise>
When he sits down expectin' Irish Stew
And his wife says "George I'll get 'ee, a gert dollop of spaghetti"
When the Common Market comes to Staunton-Drew.

V
Now, Evenin's , I suppose, we'll sup on our "Vin-Rose" just as they does in the "Argenteen"
And watch they "Furrin Blokes" in their gert big 'ats an' cloaks
"Flamengo-in'" down on the village green.
We'll 'ave to watch the lasses when they comes out at night
The village boys will 'ave to form a que .
And well say, "oo-la-la-wee- wee", Instead of "George how be with thee"
When the common market comes to Staunton-Drew.

Sung to "Little Old Log Cabin on my Claim"

you're quite right, I don't know how to spell English Place names, NOR-DO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. Cases in point, "Leicester", Towcester, the river Thames, ""Belvoire Street" In the city of Leicester (pronounced, "Beaver Street in the city of Lester) Here in Newport, RI, we pronounce "Thames Street", "THAMES STREET" (rhymes with "James Street")

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Kim C
Date: 15 May 01 - 12:57 PM

Oh Shula! you just reminded me! Gitarzan!!!!! Omigosh, how on EARTH could I forget that! Mister's uncle calls him "Zan" after Gitarzan. :-D

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Shula
Date: 14 May 01 - 11:53 PM

Dear Folks,

These will date me, but, just for a start...:

The Draft Dodger Rag The John Birch Society (and a lot of The Chad Mitchell Trio) Alice's Restaurant Ahab the A-rab The Very Unfortunate Man Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour Happily Addicted to the Web

Shalom,

Shula

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Kim C
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:50 PM

Ummm, y'all, I actually have a leopard skin pillbox hat. Fake, of course. I paid $2 for it at a flea market. Reckon I should have a picture taken in it to put in my photo album.

There was a song Brother Oswald used to do on the Opry.... I don't remember it now... but it was something about Adam and Eve working in the garden and "she hit him in the eye with a tater."

And one of my favorites bt Riders in the Sky:

There are campfire legends that the plainsmen spin
Of a man who was nothing like Paladin
Couldn't ride, couldn't rope but he won his fame
Everything he said said backwards was the same
Palindrome, Palindrome, what's in a name
Palindrome, Palindrome, backwards the same

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Dorrie
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:11 PM

has any1 heard of keith donnrley (opps cant spell) but he does a really funny song that goes # i'm sailing backwards on a green bananna boat they were just saying we wont stay a float i'm leaving 2moro that is all she wrote let me off this nana boat in a newcastle accent

really funny love dorrie xxxxx

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Whistleworks
Date: 13 May 01 - 06:16 PM

There are three people who can sing mostly anything funny and I'll howl. Christine Lavin, John Forester, and fellow Catter Seamus Kennedy. If I had to single out a specific song, it was a duet by Christine Lavin and John Forester on his CD "Entering Marion" called "Way Down Deep You're Shallow". Another on this same CD is "Co-dependant With You". I am laughing just thinking of these.

Bob Pegritz

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: vectis
Date: 13 May 01 - 05:19 PM

Little Gomez by Eric Bogle.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Jande
Date: 12 May 01 - 10:23 PM

Can anyone give me a link to a midi of the tune for "You're Only As Old..."?

That was a ROTFL!

~ Jande

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: ray bucknell
Date: 11 May 01 - 09:26 PM

"Lizzie Borden" as done by the Chad Mitchell Trio; Tom Lehrer's "Vatican Rag"; Paxton's "One Million Lawyers" (having been in that profession myself); "Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan" as done by the Mitchell Trio; and a song I heard Bruce Davies sing at a house concert last fall whose title I'm not sure of but it had to do with "The Second Grade Nativity Play" and I certainly did laugh out loud.

Ray

Subject: Bastity Chelt
From: GUEST,Lord Mondegreen
Date: 11 May 01 - 07:11 AM

Does anyone have the spoonerised lyrics to Chastity Belt? This one really did make me corpse, and since someone had mentioned it, I thought I might as well ask...

Hmm, other songs that made me corpse... Weird Al's "Polka Power" had me unable to breathe... Fascinating Aida, anyone?

-- Lord Mondegreen

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,yum yum
Date: 11 May 01 - 05:34 AM

'Drumsnot' by Brian O'Rourke. His album 'When I grow up' is one of the funniest I have ever heard. The first time I heard him sing it was at a Slieve Gullion singing weekend in Forkhill. I laughed so hard I had a headache for hours afterwards.

yum yum

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 May 01 - 10:28 PM

I didn't say I thought about her orgasms. I said I think she's on the "inside track" (meaning she's smart, capable, talented, and creative). I only think about the orgasms of women I'm actually involved with, generally speaking. You don't have to be a SNAG to hate the SNAG song, but for those of you who like it...enjoy, enjoy.

- LH

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: lady penelope
Date: 10 May 01 - 07:46 PM

Que?

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: mousethief
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:53 PM

Why do men think about Shirley McLaine's orgasms? I don't get it.

Alex

Subject: ADD POP: Who Let the Dogs Out
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:49 PM

These lists of songs in a category are a great opportunity to link to songs we do have, or post songs we don't. Note that I've added links to some of the messages above. Justa Picker, is this the "Who Let the Dogs Out" song you refer to? Interesting, but can't say it moves me...
-Joe Offer-

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Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out

C
Who let the dogs out
Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof
Who let the dogs out
Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof
Who let the dogs out
Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof
Who let the dogs out


V1
The party was nice the party was pumping
Ah Yepee Ah Yo
And everybody having a ball
Yepee Ah Yo
Till them man them start they name calling
Yepee Ah Yo
Then them girls respond to the call
I hear a woman shout out…


Chorus

Last year in the dance you had a ball
You call me millibug and skettell
Get back gruffy, mash scruffy
Get back you flea infested mongrel


V3
Now I tell meh self dem man go get angry
Ah Yepee Ah Yo
To hear dem girls calling them canine
Yepee Ah Yo
But they say hey man dat is part of the party
Ah Yepee Ah Yo
Them woman in front and they man behind
I hear ah woman shout out…

Chrous

Bridge
Ah doggie is nothing if he don't have a bone
All doggie hold it
Ah doggie is nothing if he don't have a bone
All doggie hold it


Chorus

Last year in the dance you had a ball
You call me millibug and skettell
Get back fluffy, mash scruffy
Get back you flea infested mongrel


RAP
If I was a dog
The party is on
I got to get my groove on
'Cause my mind done gone
Can't you see the rays coming from my eyes
Walking through the place like Digi-man
Breaking it down
Me and my white tail
Short coat
Can't see color
Any color will do
I'll stick on you
That's why they call me pit bull
'Cause I'm the man of the land when they see me
They say oooooh


Chorus

(Fade)

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:37 PM

Clansfolk
Heard His Worship and the Pig sing that song at Moor and Coast on saturday; hilarious
Keith Marsden's Left, Left,Right, Steady man is another laugh - making song.
John Connolly's new CD of Saucy Postcard Songs (don't know the title) is hilarious.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,uncivil servant
Date: 10 May 01 - 04:13 PM

I hate SNAG's and I think the SNAG song rules. All you buncha Male NOW members can kiss my can.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Ruthie A
Date: 10 May 01 - 02:52 PM

'The Bedstead Men' by Flanders and Swan is a killer. I also like Les Barker's version of Geordie - actually, make that Les Barker's version of anything. I'm not fussy!

Ruthie

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Midchuck upstairs
Date: 10 May 01 - 02:12 PM

LH (taking cover hastily behind the statue of General Brock at Niagara)

Is that the one that has "...lichen on 'McDonnell' carved upon that weathered stone...?" Got to go see it sometime.

P.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 May 01 - 01:07 PM

Matt - "you know, it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine, your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat" A brilliant and hilarious lyric in a very funny song. "I saw you makin' love to him, you forgot to close the garage door. Well, you might think he loves you for your money, but I know what he REALLY loves you for...it's your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat". What a wicked putdown! Must rank among the most sarcastic lines ever written in popular song.

Now then...that "Sensitive New Age Guys" song has its moments, but overall I think it sucks! Number one, Shirley MacLaine IS on the inside track. Number two, there are lots of guys out there who care more about HER orgasms than they do about their own. Believe me, there are. Just ask around here and there.

So...songs that make me laugh out loud?

* * * The Star Spangled Banner * * *

(Specially when it's sung at hockey games for American teams whose lineup is mostly composed of Canadians, Russians, and Swedes...)

- LH (taking cover hastily behind the statue of General Brock at Niagara)

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST
Date: 10 May 01 - 12:45 PM

The Scotsman by the Irish Rovers

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 09 May 01 - 09:08 PM

Bruce, I missed that Cheryl song. another time.

The one that crams the whole plot of *Hamlet* into a song is done semi-locally by Dan Maher. He says who wrote it, but I don't remember.

MAG, from WA State, where they drew down our whole hydroelectric dam system, even tho' we are facing a severe drought. Grow them trees, y'all!

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 May 01 - 08:57 PM

There's also Fred Small's "Hot Frogs on the Loose" and my favorite one from the Barrymans has to be "Why am I Painting the Livingroom?" But then there's Tanglefoot with "Paddy's Finger" and Charlie King singing "The Ants are Blowing in the Wind" and even Si Kahn came up with "Superior Sperm" his fresh-water whaling song...Well, now that I'm back in a good mood I think I'll sign off!

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 09 May 01 - 07:30 PM

Lady Penelope, Fred Koller and I wrote a parody about that very incident, and we called it The Wreck Of Ms Ella Fitzgerald, to the melody of another well-known Gordon Lightfoot song. Damned if I can remember the words now!

Seamus

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Mickey191
Date: 09 May 01 - 06:59 PM

Zombie Jamboree was a small hit with Belefonte covering it.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Albamist
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:21 PM

Lemon Flower by Ivor Cutler

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Nemesis
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:13 PM

Zombie Jamboree - it was sung at the club last Friday - gratifying to see the number of people singing it to themselves in the interval. Altogether therapeutic evening - the Sussex Folk Orchestra (2 of) announced they were doing "yodelling" songs. To which there was a mass Roger Moore twitched eyebrow response - until everyone joined in and realised that there's nothing like a little mass primal screaming to induce a feel-good factor. (All that oxygen or something)

(all calypso fans catch "The Bamboo Band" at Shoreham Airport Sussex, on 5 June as part of the Adur Festival

Just checked out the humerous songs thread - does anyone know where I might find Frog Kissing by Chet Atkins - had it once and left it behind in Darkest Africa

Yours cheerily, Hille

PS Dave the Gnome - one of the Bamboo Band is also a gnome - and she's female. Would this mean lots of little gnomes if you met over a wheelbarrow/fishing rod???

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: lady penelope
Date: 09 May 01 - 02:55 PM

For the juvenile at heart, the original hedgehog song It starts " An hedgehog called Dan set up home in a can when he was kicked out of his bucket," The ryhmes are obvious but fun.

Jasper Carrot singing anything. Especially the 'spoonerised' version of Chastity Belt! Ella Fitzgerald completely losing 'Mac The Knife' in a live recording from Berlin and improvising as she goes.

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: harpmolly
Date: 09 May 01 - 01:38 PM

And who could forget Moxy Fruvous?

My first taste of them was when my best friend popped their indie tape into her car stereo and I heard,

"Once I was the King of Spain!
(Now I eat humble pie)
Oh, my unspeakable wife, Queen Lisa!
(Now I eat humble pie)
I'm telling you, I was the King of Spain!
(Now I eat humble pie)
And now I work at the Pizza Pizza!"

And who could forget "My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors"?

"Well you should see my story reading baby,
You should hear the things that she says--
She says "Hon, drop dead, I'd rather go to bed
With Gabriel Garcia Marquez."

Go Frulads! :D

M

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 09 May 01 - 01:25 PM

Here in sunny California, land of rolling blackouts and astronomical power bills, we were recently treated to an original called "The PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) Song, or Shut Up and Write the Check." We found it very funny as we sat in the dark.

I'm also fond of a song I think of as "The Alberta Pirate," though I don't actually know the correct name. It's by a group called the Arrogant Worms and is about a bankrupt farmer who takes up piracy on the high plains.

Years ago, I heard a parody of all those "ramblin' man with guitar" songs, I think by Steve Martin, that went:

I guess I'll always ramble round
Movin' on from town to town
Lookin' like some dirty scruffy bum,
And if you ask the reason why,
I will give you this reply,
It's cause I got no talent and I'm dumb.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,djh
Date: 09 May 01 - 01:09 PM

Stairway to Gilligans Island - I don't know who did it and I have only heard it twice. "and she's buy-i-ing a stairway to Gilligans I-i-sland". All the words to the intro and outro themes of Gilligan's Island set perfectly to the tune of Stairway to heaven. The funniest part is when it kicks up to the big stupid,distorted, falsetto ending " With Gilligan, the skipper too.....". I know it is just a send up but I can't think of one I ever laughed harded at.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Trapper
Date: 09 May 01 - 12:21 PM

Peg-

Dead Egyptian Blues is by Michael Smith. He has a "new-ish" song called "Famous in France" which is also a hoot!

Berrymans - "A Chat with your Mother"
Smothers Brothers - "Crabs Walk Sideways"
Brian Bowers - "The Scotsman"
Dan Bern - "Tiger Woods"
Paul Thorn - "I'm Going to Viagra Before It Falls"
John Prine - "Space Monkey"
Tom Paxton - "Forest Lawn"

Oh the mind boggles! SO many funny songs!!

- Al

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 09 May 01 - 10:58 AM

How could I have forgotten? . . .

Fred J Eaglesmith's songs "White Trash" and "Big Hair".

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST
Date: 09 May 01 - 10:39 AM

The Zombi Jamboree!!! Haven't thought of that in a while. It took place in a New York cemetary, you know.

Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE ONLY AS OLD AS THE WOMAN YOU FEEL
From: clansfolk
Date: 09 May 01 - 10:04 AM

A song by His Worship and The Pig... "

"You're Only As Old As The Woman You Feel."

Now that you're 50 I bet you a quid
That your bodily functions don't work like they did.
To see yourself naked is a little distressing
Your skin fits alright but looks like it needs pressing.

Chorus: But don't think that fifty is the end of the line,
That you've run out of track and you've run out of time,
For as long as you've got both your ardour and zeal,
You are only as old as the woman you feel.

Well at fifty, perhaps you're a little concerned,
That the largest amount of your candle you've burned,
But the size of your candle don't matter a bit.
What's important is how long it burns once its lit.

Chorus

Well shortly you'll start growing hair once again,
From your armholes and earholes and holes I wont name,
And no-ones explained it and I've never read,
Why it grows down your nostrils but not on your head.
Chorus.

Now when you were just twenty-one all your girlfriends,
Say that you'd go like a Mercedes Benz,
But now the wife tells you your engine is blowing,
She starts you by hand and jumps on once you're going.

Chorus.

The last verse is a killer we've performed it infront of a wide range of audiences and it's always amazing to see very prim and proper ladies (of all ages!) burst into laughter when we sing the last verse - amazingly we've never had a complaint and re-bookings keep coming in!

Take care

Pete

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 May 01 - 08:42 AM

And Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat! A lot of Dylan's songs make me crack up!

"Looks just like a mattress, balanced on top of a bottle of wine, in your leopard-skin pillbox haaaaaaaaat!"

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 09 May 01 - 08:26 AM

and "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues"

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 May 01 - 08:22 AM

Bob Dylan's 116th Dream!

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 09 May 01 - 06:44 AM

The Hairy Bowsies (a piss-take Irish ballad group with over-the-top Republican tendancies, courtesy of the comedian Paul Woodfull) had me laughing til I cried the first time I heard them. Their album, "Publocked" has a whole host of maudlin ballads and hard-core patriotism. It's very tongue in cheek. And the songs all sound scarily genuine. My favourite is "Flow river flow", with a chorus that goes:

"Flow, river, flow
F*ck off to the sea
Go where you are wanted
To the desert of Gobi"

They also have a send-up of "The praties they grow small" entitled "The potatoes aren't looking the best". Twisted, but very, very funny. The interview with him describing the concept of "geographical folk" (singing songs about hills, rivers and mountains with the group Wild Mountain Badger) is pure genius.

There's more info about them here and here.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: mcpiper
Date: 09 May 01 - 06:22 AM

The Laughing Policeman. I've seen it done well, poorly and the funniest time was when someone tried to do it seriously and properly. Gets me every time.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: DaisyA
Date: 09 May 01 - 05:33 AM

Another classic Stanley Accrington song is the tragic Ballad of Matty Groves (short, short version). It should be sung as fast as you possibly can:

Matty Groves gets seduced by a high class bird, She takes him home to bed. They're at it hammer and tongs when the husband comes home unexpected, "What the bloody hell's going on here?" he says and stabs Matty in the guts, "What d'you think of you lover-boy now?" he says, but she's cheeky so he chops her head off!

Another great short song in less than good taste (sorry) goes like this:

Old MacDonald was dyslexic - Oh, E, Oh, E, I.

Daisy

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Sooz (at work)
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:37 AM

Mrs Duck- its The Drag Queen Blues by Richard Digance. I'm just revisiting lots of Jake Thackray via Napster - absolutely brilliant.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 May 01 - 03:33 AM

Charlie, The sheep thing is because the west coast of the English lake district is spoiled by a nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield. Should really joke about it I suppose but Stan can make anything sound funny!

One artist I forgot to mention - surprised he hasn't shown up yet - Weird Al Yankovich (sp??). I'm just getting into him. Smells like Nirvana is brilliant!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 May 01 - 12:37 AM

Merle Travis doing When My Baby Double Talks to Me because it's a very goofy song and Merle has such a damn good time doing it.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Peg
Date: 09 May 01 - 12:35 AM

Dead Egyptian Blues. I forget who wrote it.

Your sarcophagus is glowing
but your esophagus is showing when you look like Boris Karloff...

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: BRG
Date: 08 May 01 - 11:25 PM

MAG - I saw Cheryl Wheeler just a few weeks back in Anchorage and she did that same tune. What a hoot. I'd also have to vote for her "Christine Lavine Could Do It".

Bruce

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: ddw
Date: 08 May 01 - 10:30 PM

I'll second the Flanders & Swann and Tom Lehrer and add a lot of stuff from Ray Stevens. I think my favorite is "The Day I Taught Charlene McKenzie How To Drive," followed closely by "The Pirate Song," but there are dozens of others.

Also Joel Mabus's "The Preacher and the Flood."

The Chad Mitchell Trio's versions of "Sigmund Freud" and "The John Birch Society" are still good for a chuckle.

And a lot of the Smothers Brothers' stuff still holds up.

david