Songs that make you laugh out loud

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 08 May 01 - 10:09 PM

Chicken Charlie,

Coconut was by Nilsson.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 08 May 01 - 09:08 PM

there's a song by the Stripling Brothers

my little girl when we were married
and we were going to bed that night
you put your glasses on the dresser
and took the pretty curls from your hair
you put your false teeth on the mantle
and your wooden leg on the chair
my little girl Id love to squeeze you
but you were scattered everywhere...

(I don't have the ABC for the tune although it's similar to its a long way to Tipperary)

Petr.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:57 PM

Challis--Was Zombie Jamboree not Kingston Trio?? I think.

My fave in the Calypso genre was "Put de Lime in the Coconut," c.1970 something. If I think about it I'll retrieve the artist.

I said, doctor! is there nothing I can take
I said, doctor! to relieve this bellyache? "You put de lime in de coconut and call me in de morning."

Dave the Gnome--

Don't apologize about your sheep song; there's an eerie parallel over here. Maddening thing is, I tuned into the middle of it on the radio and was called away so I missed the credits, BUT the idea was a herd of cattle breaks through the fence and gets into the White Sands Proving Ground, they end up doing things like glowing instead of lowing, etc. Sounds like an uncanny parallel. What was the background on the sheep thing? Sounds like nuclear accident???

CC

Subject: Lyr Add: SENSITIVE NEW-AGE GUYS^^
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:32 PM

SENSITIVE NEW-AGE GUYS
(Words and Music by Christine Lavin and John Gorka, Copyright 1990 CL2 (ASCAP) & Blues Palace Music (ASCAP))

[Words in parentheses are sung by a male chorus.]

Who likes to talk about their feelings?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who's into crystals, into healing?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who likes to dress like Richard Simmons?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who are hard to tell from women?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who likes to cry at weddings?
Who thinks boxing is upsetting?
Who tapes "The Frugal Gourmet" on their VCR?
Who's got "Baby on Board" stickers on their cars? Oh…
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)

Whose last names are hyphenated?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who walked out of "Long Dong Silver," a movie they hated?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Whose consciousness is constantly raising?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Whose low pain threshold is amazing?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who thinks that red meat is disgusting?
Who's into UFO's channeling, and usting?
Who believes us when we say we've got premenstrual syndrome?
Who doesn't know who plays in the Seattle Kingdome?

Who likes music that's repetitious?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who likes music that's repetitious?
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who's concerned about your orgasm?
[silence… then spoken:] (Hey, we're not *that* sensitive.)
Well, I guess it's more important that they have 'em.
(Sensitive new-age guys.)
Who carries the baby on his back?
Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?
Who always sings on sing-alongs,
Even when they can't stand stupid sing-alongs?

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:24 PM

1. Roger from Baltimore singing You Don't Even Care
2. Bill D singing Key of R
3. The Old Sow Song, as sung by Bert (England), Ewan McVicar (Scotland), or Seamus Kennedy (Ireland)
4. Kendall or Dick Greenhaus, singing just about anything.

So, does that make me a Mudcat groupie?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 May 01 - 08:05 PM

Take a look at the thread called Humorous songs.

One I posted there is Lou and Peter Berryman's Here's Louie With The Sports. It's like a lot of Berryman songs, in that it sneaks up on you. The first verse seems kind of pointless (or, depending on the song, incomprehensible). By the second verse, you begin to see what they're getting at, and it makes you smile. By the third verse, they're getting really over the top, so you laugh. By the last verse, you're ROFL.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 May 01 - 07:54 PM

Well, it ain't folk, but:

Flanders & Swann: A Transport of Delight, Song of Reproduction, In the Bath, The Reluctant Cannibal, Misalliance, Madeira M'Dear?, Hippopotamus, Bedstead Men, Song of Patriotic Prejudice, The Warthog, The Sloth, The Armadillo

Tom Lehrer: everything on his first record

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 08 May 01 - 07:52 PM

Guest Bob P, the songwriter's name is Greg Trafidlo. I'm doing a cover of his parody of The Gambler (he calls it the Tumbler) on my new CD, and I don't know where to locate him. Any 'Catters know where I can contact him?

Thanks.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loudN
From: Mickey191
Date: 08 May 01 - 07:39 PM

Never fails to get me - Elvis singing "Are you Lonesome Tonight?" Part way thru he giggles a bit and from then on he's a goner. Could not stop laughing no matter how hard he tried.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: marty D
Date: 08 May 01 - 07:25 PM

One of the mudcatters sent me a tape of him singing "The Theme From Gilligan's Isle", very slowly. The audience was howling from the first line. If he hadn't also sent me a note saying that he had his hand clapped up against his ear, eyes closed and was doing it like a very traditional Ballad singer, I'd have never known why they were laughing.

marty

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Nemesis
Date: 08 May 01 - 07:02 PM

One that made me giggle quite a lot on Friday night at our club, was a Calypso song soneone did "Zombie Jamboree"

The chorus

"Back to back, Belly to belly I don't give a damn I done dead already.

Back to back Belly to belly at the Zombie Jamboree"

(Well, you had to be there really!)

Cheerily, Hille

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Burke
Date: 08 May 01 - 06:39 PM

Foolish Questions
Whatever the Capitol Steps is doing in their show.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Matt_R
Date: 08 May 01 - 05:58 PM

Funny songs don't usually make me laugh at all. I only laugh at EXTREMELY funny stuff. I've heard some of the stuff above and can sit through it with a straight face! Ones I HAVE laughed to have been:

Our Hamlet
Parklife --Blur
Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues --Tom Paxton
Lots of stuff from MST3K, like the "Canada Song", "Let's Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas," "The Werewolf Megamix," "When I Held Your Brain In My Arms," "Sodium," and "The Waffle Song".

Elvis is Everywhere --Mojo Nixon

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Deni
Date: 08 May 01 - 05:26 PM

i'm tracing this for when I have time. How ******* romantic indeed. Hilarious! I'm going to sing it.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Bardford
Date: 08 May 01 - 05:02 PM

The Saga of the Ponderosa, sung by Lorne Greene. A rivetting account of the Cartwright migration to the Ponderosa Ranch, the begetting of the Cartwright boys, and the curious and sad propensity of the Cartwright wives to perish. Add an undulating, haunting "Pon-da-rohhh-sa, Pon-da-ROHHH-sa" chorus and I get all teary. I'm sorry, I had no luck doing a lyrics search.

Happy Trails, Bardford

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 01 - 03:05 PM

Chainsaw Earl by Buddy Whassisname And The Other Fellas... stunned as me arse, that Earl.

I received one by email called The Man Song. Don't know author or artist. About a "whipped" guy. It's hilarious.... you'll never get flowers from me, because if I'm right, you prefer jewelry...

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,BobP
Date: 08 May 01 - 02:14 PM

Any song from Bob Gibson / Shel Silverstein's "Makin
A Mess Out Of Commercial Success", especially the one
where they are makin' a Miller Lite Beer Commmercial
on Duval St. in Key West.

Also!

A song by a fellow, I believe his name is Trafidlo
(sorry, lost track of his first name) that takes
liberties with that absolutely awful K Rogers song
"The Gambler". In this version the midnight train
becomes a laundry and the asinine advice is about
] how to wash clothes.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 08 May 01 - 02:12 PM

Speaking of Cheryl Wheeler, she did a concert in our area a coupla weeks back, and did one about the Handy House -- a brand name of portable john. I think it has to be heard in concert with her intro. She is so brilliant at whipping you back and forth from lyrical love songs to gut busters. If you haven't heard her live, go, go, go. No pun intended.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 May 01 - 02:06 PM

The Vicar and the Frog - no matter how many times I hear it, it always gets me.

Wardrobe of my Soul. Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Most stuff by Stanley Accrington (If you have never heard him find some stuff NOW)

The Lake District Sheep song (can't remember the title)

The sheep are glowing in the dark
You can see their ghostly presence
Lighting up the Lakeland Hills
With an Eerie luminescance....

Such dreadful puns as -

"The land prices are plummeting, no-one can sell a field"

(possibly brit only humour - sorry to those over the water!)

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 May 01 - 02:00 PM

I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore (A Kendall Classic0
In My Boxers With A Gun (a Woodchuck's Classic)

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Burke
Date: 08 May 01 - 01:58 PM

Berrymen's "A Chat with your Mother" aka The F-word song. Their yodelling song is really funny, as well.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 08 May 01 - 01:58 PM

Not sure what it's called but the one that says
"My girlfriends name is Nancy but George is my best friend"
Geoff sings it occasionally but was never better received than the time he sang it in Whitby and remembered about half way through that a six foot goth transvestite had just come in the pub and was in fact sitting almost directly behind him!! He/she had in fact gone to the toilet (not sure which one)but the picture of horror on everyones face as they wondered who would finish first was a real sight!! Geoff chose to finish the song given that it is really not offensive and I am still not sure how much was heard by the goth as I was too busy laughing!

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Bert
Date: 08 May 01 - 01:55 PM

The Potato Song By Cheryl Wheeler.
Monkey Farts
Breakfast Blues

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,djh
Date: 08 May 01 - 01:44 PM

Johnny Cash- The Man Who Couldn't Cry DJH who will always sing any Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore
Date: 08 May 01 - 01:37 PM

Eric Bogle's "I Just Won't Sing Any Bob Dylan".

Roger in Baltimore

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

Jez Lowe's High Part Of The Town

Tom Paxton's Change My Name To Chrysler....and several of his songs....

Eric bogle's Nobody's Moggy Now....

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 08 May 01 - 01:08 PM

Bill Gallaher's "The Male Bonding Song".

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

My kids like Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger. Played it in the car this past weekend. Also "Dad's Got That Look" by John Mc Cutcheon. I like "The Prickly Bush" by Steeleye Span ("if ever I'm out of the prickly bush, I'll never get in it any more!")

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Justa Picker
Date: 08 May 01 - 12:51 PM

Seeing my kids's reaction to the song "Who Let The Dog's Out" made me laugh. Everytime it comes to the chorus, my kids sing along with it, including the barks. (Well I guess you'd have to have been there.)

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Grab
Date: 08 May 01 - 12:47 PM

Jake Thackray - Bantam Cock
Tom Paxton - Forest Lawn
Trad - The Sicknote (aka The Barrel, aka Paddy's not at work today)

But the one that had me hysterical most recently was Clementine sung to the tune of Cwm Rhondda. The whole thing of a roomful of guys doing their best Welsh male voice choir on "Oh, my darling Clementine (Clem-en-tiiiine)" was too funny for words, and I was having real problems singing along.

In a similar vein, the entire queue in the student's union takeaway singing Unchained Melody is close to unbeatable.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: Kim C
Date: 08 May 01 - 12:30 PM

John Prine's Dear Abby. Or this from his other little gem, All the Best:

I wish you don't do like I do
And ever fall in love with someone like you

Anybody remember a song Sammy Kershaw had out several years ago - Queen of the Double Wide Trailer? At first I thought that was the most idiotic thing I had ever heard. After I listened to it a few times I thought it almost brilliant:

She said He rebuilds engines and his name is Earl
He's the Charlie Daniels of the torque wrench

And then of course, there's the saga of why Paddy can't come to work today (The Excuse Note).

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(Click for Prine Lyrics) (Joe Offer)

Subject: RE: Songs that make you laugh out loud
From: tonedeaf
Date: 08 May 01 - 12:03 PM

Eric Bogle's Nobody's Moggy! I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair, and I'm not easily amused!

The thing with that song is that it is simultaneosly so gross and yet so funny, I know I shouldn't like it, but I do!

Cedar

Subject: Lyr Add: HOW FUCKING ROMANTIC^^
From: Bagpuss
Date: 08 May 01 - 11:59 AM

I am just listening to a newly bought CD (69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields) and the last song made me laugh out loud - it was so unexpected. What songs really made you laugh the first time you heard them?

Here's the song that made me snort water out of my nose....

How Fucking Romantic

How fucking romantic
All the stars are out
twinkling twinkling twinkling
and fluttering about
What a tacky sunset
What a vulgar moon
Play another charming
Rodgers & Hart tune
How fucking romantic
Must we really waltz
Drag another cliche
howling from the vaults
Love you, obviously,
like you really care,
even though you treat me
like a dancing bear
Toss your bear a goldfish
as it cycles by
Don't forget to feed your bear
or it'll die