Subject: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: John in Brisbane Date: 20 Dec 01 - 09:16 PM My thanks to those who contributed suggestions for Songs of Dismemberment a little while ago. For another small event at the Woodford Festival in the next week, can anyone recall any good folk parodies posted here in the last 12 months or so? I've been through all those listed under @parody on DT on Disc and I've retrieved 'Two Little Boys in Blue' and 'The Day That Santa Died' ( a la American Pie) from much older postings here, but I've visited only rarely in 2001. Best Wishes for the festive season. John |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Dec 01 - 09:28 PM John, it's not as funny unless you are either an American or familiar with the voting problem in Florida, but this was one of the best I'd run across in a long time....December of 2000, so of course not too topical now either...still very funny. (To Dylan's "Don't Think Twice") Spaw |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Bo Date: 20 Dec 01 - 09:39 PM Threads entitled "SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 76" was based on a christmas parody, try there if anything strikes your fancy. You're welcome to use my parody, I'd love to hear if it went over well. Bo |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Aidan Crossey Date: 21 Dec 01 - 05:50 AM John in Brisbane There have been literally hundreds ... most of the Challenge!s posed by Áine have given rise to numerous parodies of folk songs. A first port of call would be Song Challenge winners. Click on the various category listings and there'll be more folk parodies in there than Barney McKenna's variations on "The Mason's Apron". |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: jeffp Date: 21 Dec 01 - 10:02 AM You should also check the Mudcat Songbook. There are a number of parodies there, including my own "Oh Boy, Danny," which you may find amusing. jeffp |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 22 Dec 01 - 11:37 AM A few that come to mind right now (which may be posted here in the forum) are: Hard Times Come Again Once More Roll On, Deodorant How Can I Keep From Purring Banks Of The Ohio (Revisited) Walkin' 'Round In Women's Underwear There Is A Bathroom On the Right Come, Mr. Taliban, Turn Over Bin Laden The Restroom Door Said "Gentlemen Day Care Do check out the Song Challenge!s, as guest and Derrymasch suggest. (Challenge #77 is up now [also with a Christmas angle] and Áine has been at it fast and furious over the past few weeks.) Genie |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 22 Dec 01 - 01:15 PM If you don't mind looking "off-site" you will find numerous parodies from Weird Al who has become rich through them. http://www.weirdal.com/catalog.htm His lyrics can be obtained through Google searches. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 23 Dec 01 - 02:22 AM Don't The Capitol Steps also have a website with lyrics to their many parodies? Also, Garrison Keillor regularly re-writes song lyrics, often with very funny results. You can get any of his old shows and the songs from his website. It's something like "prairiehome.org". |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Dec 01 - 09:32 AM Pinkard & Bowden for country parodies. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Sonja Date: 16 Jan 02 - 09:06 PM Well, it's 2002 now, but Derrymacash just outdid himself by writing 22 parodies for a single Song Challenge! (Part 79) Check out the thread. He's got at least one or two gems there! Sonja |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 21 Mar 02 - 01:27 AM Here's a 2002 parody of Isle Of Innisfree which was posted recently: |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Steve Parkes Date: 21 Mar 02 - 05:37 AM There's a good parody of 'Two Little Boys called 'Ten Litte Toes'. Steve |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Bev and Jerry Date: 21 Mar 02 - 12:47 PM Try this one. It's to the tune of The Titanic.
Through a partnership gigantic Enron grew and grew
chorus:
Oh, it was sad, oh, it was sad
Oh, they bailed from Enron and were almost to the door
Oh, the firm was full of sin and the scheme about to burst
Oh, they hauled the shredders out at the accounting agency Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 22 Mar 02 - 01:07 AM There's also a thread about "One-Ton Tomato," a parody of "Guantanamera." Also, "Oh, No, Not 'The Fields Of Athenry!'"
Genie |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Sonja Date: 20 Aug 02 - 02:34 PM Ripple (Flowed Like Water). |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore (posting from the library Date: 20 Aug 02 - 03:25 PM Sue Trainor from the folk trio Hot Soup! has written a parody called "E-bay Oh" to the tune of "Day Oh". If you do a search for Hot Soup, you should get more information via their Web-site. Roger in Baltimore |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Clinton Hammond Date: 21 Aug 02 - 01:11 PM I've got a re-write of Black Velvet Band that I've been meening to post for quite some time now...
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Date: 21 Aug 02 - 01:28 PM One Ton Tomato was of course by the great folk parodist Allan Sherman, not exactly current. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 21 Aug 02 - 03:08 PM Bill K, do you have the Allan Sherman lyrics to "One-ton Tomato?" In this thread, several people discussed that parody, but for the most part all anyone knew was the refrain. A couple of us wrote lyrics to fit the "Guantanamera" verses to go with the "One-ton Tomato" refrain, because no one could come up with the "original" parody. I'd love to hear Sherman's lyrics, 'cause he writes hilarious stuff (e.g., "Cockeyed and Muscle-bound Molly Malone"). Genie |
Subject: Help: Parodies in 2001-02 From: Genie Date: 21 Aug 02 - 03:37 PM Also, Bill K., whether parodies are "current," the initial post in this thread asks for "...good folk parodies posted here in the last 12 months or so... ." Rather than make a judgment about whether parodies posted here in the forum are "good," some of us, I think, have just provided links to parodies that have been posted in the last year or so. (Could've started a new thread for parodies posted in 2002, but I think that complicates things.) Genie |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Devilmaster Date: 21 Aug 02 - 03:55 PM Well, with a gentle nudge from Clinton Hammond, this is a parody I wrote for another forum that deals with the fight of open-wheel racing series in N. America between CART and IRL. Sung to the tune of 'Teach your Children' by CSN:
"Teach Your Children about Real Racing"
You, Who love all the show,
Teach, your children well, the IRL,
Don't you ever wonder why, why he made it you will cry,
And you, who know all the gears,
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Date: 21 Aug 02 - 04:05 PM Genie - I have the recordings, I'll pull them out and transcribe ASAP. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 22 Aug 02 - 10:52 AM Glad you have the recording and can post the lyrics, Bill. I've searched the net for anything on Allan Sherman and cannot find any reference to this song, even at Jeff Morris's Allan Sherman Discography, which seems pretty darned comprehensive. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Amergin Date: 22 Aug 02 - 12:22 PM well here is a parody of mine i wrote several weeks ago.... |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Alice Date: 22 Aug 02 - 01:27 PM I did a parody of Killelly Ireland called Roundup Montana. You can find it in the Mudcat Songbook. Alice |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 22 Aug 02 - 02:08 PM Here are the thread titles to all parodies identified as such in the thread title over the last year (minus a couple that have already been cited here): Lyr Req: Tim McGuire parody [oh johnny dirt] |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: GUEST,Genie Date: 15 Sep 02 - 04:40 PM Sushi Song - by Pat Donohue (parody of "Sukiyaki") . |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Leadfingers Date: 15 Sep 02 - 08:35 PM Genie,I'm pleased to see the Dave Houlden(Late and sadly Missed)book in your list.The guy who compiled the book is worth checking out too-one Malcolm Austen.He's done some absolutely brilliant stuff. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 15 Sep 02 - 08:43 PM Leadfingers, maybe someone has a web address for Malcolm Austen.
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Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Genie Date: 15 Sep 02 - 09:47 PM Here's another great one, just posted today. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Dave Bryant Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:29 AM No-one seems to have mentioned MICCA's parody of "The Sash my Father Wore" Here. |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Amos Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:23 AM FIlter on SONG CHALLENGE for three years and yopu'll have more than you'll know what to do with. A |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Micca Date: 17 Sep 02 - 09:46 AM Genie, I have 2 of Malcolm Austens parodys in my repetoire and would be happy to send them to you if you like, PM me, they are " Oh no, NOT the feilds of Athenry" and "The cat that Roamed"( parody of the King of Rome".. they are the biz!!! |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Herga Kitty Date: 17 Sep 02 - 09:35 PM Malcolm Austen has also perpetrated "What shall we do with the octopus's leg" and a painful parody of "Loving Hannah" - and I think Micca was present in the barn at Towersey when Malcolm sang "My niece has gone and left to me her French au pair". |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Schantieman Date: 18 Sep 02 - 05:55 PM This one was precipitated (and initiated) by friends drinking Soave instead of the undrinkable beer at our club:
SOAVE, SOAVE (c) 2002 by S J Freedman (hope the line breaks come out all right!) |
Subject: RE: Help: Folk Parodies in 2001 From: Herga Kitty Date: 18 Sep 02 - 06:15 PM Schantieman Thank you very much. I think that Soave might get sung at the Herga folk club if you don't mind. Kitty
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