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Songs about truly pissed-off people
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: ard mhacha Date: 19 Apr 06 - 01:25 PM I have just come on to this Thread and after a quick glance through them I failed to see an old favourite from the famous BBC request programme "Family Favourites", anyone remember "LIFE GETS TEEJUS, DON'T IT?". This monologue by a half-asleep hill-billy was repeated almost every Sunday, One of the verses went, There's a mouse a-chawin` at the pantry door, he`s bin chawin` fer a year or more and when he gits in he`s sure gonna be sore, fer there ain't a durn thing in there. Does anyone know the name of the reciter. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,Songster Bob Date: 19 Apr 06 - 02:29 PM Does anyone know the name of the reciter? The original hit version of this song was by a country singer called Carson Robison. It reached # 14 on the US national charts in 1948. There was also a cover version by Tex Williams at around the same time. Later recordings were by Walter Brennan (1974?) and Doc Watson. The tune is semi-classical, almost like something Mozart or Haydn might have noodled with and then orchestrated beyond recognition. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST Date: 19 Apr 06 - 08:42 PM Trad: THE GOLDEN VANITY and MY HUSBAND'S GOT NO COURAGE IN HIM Dylan: POSITIVELY 4TH STREET and MASTERS OF WAR John Lennon: GIMME SOME TRUTH, and HOW DO YOU SLEEP? (both 1971) Broadway: She Loves Me (Bock and Harnick, 1963): WHERE'S MY SHOE? Kiss, Me Kate (Cole Porter, 1948): I HATE MEN Whoop-Up (Charlap and Gimbel, 1958): MEN! My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe, 1956): JUST YOU WAIT and WIHOUT YOU |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Elmer Fudd Date: 20 Apr 06 - 01:01 AM "SHE GOT THE GOLD MINE (I GOT THE SHAFT)" "MEET ME AT NO SPECIAL PLACE (AND I'LL BE THERE AT NO PARTICULAR TIME)" -- Nat King Cole "YOUR MIND IS ON VACATION (AND YOUR MOUTH IS WORKING OVERTIME)" - Mose Allison "EVERYBODY'S CRYIN' MERCY" -- Mose Allison |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: ard mhacha Date: 20 Apr 06 - 07:58 AM Thanks Songster Bob, I have Carson Robinson on some CDs I have downloaded, and Carson isn`t doing any singing in his version of Life gets tedious,
Sun comes up and the sun goes down, Carson is lazily drawling his way through this number, and he sure as hell ain`t singing. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST Date: 21 Apr 06 - 07:40 AM Walter Brennan also performed out life gets tedious. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MICK RYAN'S LAMENT (from Tim O'Brien) From: GUEST,AnneMC Date: 21 Apr 06 - 06:44 PM No-one has mentioned "Rock Salt and Nails" (Utah Phillips). One fairly unhappy man with a chip on his shoulder about the two-timing ladies. Also: MICK RYAN'S LAMENT - Sung by Tim O'Brien (1999 by Robert Emmet Dunlap, Prodigal Salmon Music/ASCAP) Well my name is Mick Ryan, I'm lyin' still In a lonely spot near where I was killed By a red man defending his native land In the place that they call Little Big Horn And I swear I did not see the irony When I rode with the Seventh Cavalry I thought that we fought for the land of the free When we rode from Fort Lincoln that morning And the band they played the Garryowen Brass was shining, flags a flowin' I swear if I had only known I'd have wished that I'd died back at Vicksburg For my brother and me, we had barely escaped From the hell that was Ireland in forty-eight Two angry young lads who had learned how to hate But we loved the idea of Amerikay And we cursed our cousins who fought and bled In their bloody coats of bloody red The sun never sets on the bloody dead Of those who have chosen an empire But we'd find a better life somehow In the land where no man has to bow It seemed right then and it seems right now That Paddy he died for the union Ah, but Michael he somehow got turned around He had stolen the dream that he thought he'd found Now I never will see that holy ground For I turned into something I hated And I'm haunted by the Garryowen Drums a beating, bugles blowin' I swear if I had only known I'd lie with my brother in Vicksburg And the band they played that Garryowen Brass was shin, flags a flowin' I swear if I had only known, I'd lie with my brother at Vicksburg |
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Subject: Lyr Add: EMPIRE HOTEL (John Warner) From: GUEST,AnneMC Date: 22 Apr 06 - 12:54 AM This one is not just about pissed-off people - but the eavesdropper got it literally ! EMPIRE HOTEL - by John Warner The eavesdropper gets his come-uppance. The tune is a variation on "The Farmer's Toast". (1994) Sung as question and response with male and female singer. Both: Early one morning I stood in Walhalla By the Empire Hotel at the break of the day. And somewhere upstairs there were two lovers talking, So softly I listened to what they did say. Man: "Why are you stirring, my darling, my dearie? It's dark even now and the moon sheds no beam." Woman: "I've just heard the footstep of Coker, the fireman, He's off to the minehead to start raising steam." "Why are you rising, my fine, lusty lover, Surely there's hours till the break of the day?" "Shake off the wine from your last night's carousing, And look through the window, the light it is gray." "Why are you dressing your warm, shapely body, Sliding up garters and lacing your stays?" "The room's to be cleaning, the bed's to be making, And both of us working like all other days." As the sun rose, I was still in Walhalla, Beside that hotel above cold Stringer's Creek, Charmed by the words of those two secret lovers, I drew even closer to where they did speak. "Where are my trousers, my boots and my jacket, Where is my wallet, you sour faced whore?" "Your wallet's right here till you've paid for your pleasure, Your clothes, where you led them right there on the floor." "The hooter is sounding, the skips will be rolling And soon the gold batteries will rattle the ground." "If you're late again, they will fire you this time If you're out of cash, then you needn't come round." "You're a slut! You're a thief, Christ, a man must be senseless To waste all his money on drink and a whore!" "An hour ago I was "darling" and "dearie" And I'll wager this evening you'll be back for more." "Well, here's thirty pieces of my hard earned silver, The last evening's money I'm wasting on you." "The loss is your own, of both silver and pleasure, If one man does not, many others can do." And when he had gone out the door in a flurry, She drew from the bedside her old chamber pot, Out of the window she emptied the contents, I was listening below and collected the lot. Hark to the eavesdropper cursing at morning, Don't sniff too long at his curious smell, But from his cruel fortune take heed and take warning Don't listen to lovers at the Empire Hotel. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,Rodentred Date: 22 Apr 06 - 07:02 AM Didn't Utah Phillips write another one about a pissed off person in 'ALL USED UP' I spent all my life making somebody rich I busted my back for that son of a bitch Now he's left me lying like a dog in a ditch Says I'm all used up I heard someone sing this once and he was literally spitting venom. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Rusty Dobro Date: 22 Apr 06 - 07:47 AM (Almost) anything by the great Roy Harper, but start with 'I HATE THE WHITE MAN'. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 22 Apr 06 - 08:21 PM Rodentred: Cf.: Good businessmen have often said Always trim your costs if you're in the red Well, come shake hands with an overhead I'm in the sidings now. If your money-tree will bear no fruit Never blame the man who tends the root But take your knife to the tender shoot I'm in the sidings now. -- [IN THE SIDINGS] by Cyril Tawney of blessed memory, surely a master of the pissed-off song; it's a wonder he did not show up earlier in this thread: CHICKEN ON A RAFT on a Monday morning, Oh what a terrible sight to see... SALLY, FREE AND EASY, That should be her name When my body's landed, Hope she dies of shame. The hand that reaches out for yours Can only close on a stranger's palm instead As I lie on my bitter-sweet bed, my love,... The finest ship that sailed the sea Is still a prison for the likes of me.... If only the birds would booze If only the sun was a party-giver If I could just lend someone else my live ON A MONDAY MORNING. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: If we were all good liars, there would be little commendation of honesty. :|| |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,guest Trev Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:32 PM The Macc Lads would certainly have some pissed-off lyrics "What the f*ck f*ck f*ck have they done to me pub?" Shane Macgowan: 'The boys and me are drunk and looking for you, We'll eat your fr*gging entrails and we won't give a damn'. [BOYS FROM THE COUNTY HELL] Christy Moore, "ORDINARY MAN" Harvey Andrews "UNACCOMPANIED" from "Writer of Songs" album. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,ibo Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:05 PM PANIC by The Smiths. Hang the DJ steve wright |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,dax Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:42 PM Some discussion of Carson Robison earlier. His most pissed off song was after Pearl Harbour titled "SLAP THE DIRTY LITTLE JAP." Not very politically correct today but the perspective was different during WW2. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: ALL USED UP (Utah Phillips) From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:00 PM Someone mentioned Utah Philips's ALL USED UP Here it is, in all its glory! ALL USED UP (U. Utah Phillips) I spent my whole life making somebody rich I busted my ass for that son of a bitch He left me to die like a dog in a ditch And told me I'm all used up He used up my labor, he used up my time He plundered my body and squandered my mind Then he gave me a pension, of handouts and wine And told me I'm all used up My kids are in hock to a god you call Work Slaving their lives out for some other jerk And my youngest in 'Frisco just made shipping-clerk He don't know I'm all used up Some young people reach out for power and gold And they don't have respect for anything old For pennies they're bought, and for promises sold Someday they'll be all used up They use up the oil, they use up the trees They use up the air and they use up the seas But how about you, friend, and how about me What's left, when we're all used up? I'll finish my life in this crummy hotel It's lousy with bugs and my God, what a smell But my plumbing still works and I'm clear as a bell Don't tell me I'm all used up Outside of my window the world passes by It gives me a handout, then spits in my eye And no one can tell me, 'cause no one knows why I'm still living, but I'm all used up Sometimes in a dream I sit by a tree My life is a book of how things used to be And the kids gather 'round and they listen to me They don't think I'm all used up And there's songs and there's laughter and things I can do And all that I've learned I can give back to you And I'd give my last breath just to make it come true And to know I'm not all used up They use up the oil, they use up the trees They use up the air and they use up the seas But as long as I'm breathing they won't use up me Don't tell me I'm all used up Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:05 PM "COPS KILL RIGHTS DEAD" - Ethan Daniel Davidson comes to mind. The country song referenced above 27Dec01 post is "COWARD OF THE COUNTY" - Kenny Rogers. Then There's "ARM YOUR PRIVATE LEAR JET" - lyrics at freedomtracks.com |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:14 PM I don't know the name of it, but several years back someone put music to, and expanded the joke about the woman who sells a classic Corvette for $300 (or some such ridiculously low $s). Hope I'm not repeating anything above. [THE RED CORVETTE - John McCutcheon]
WHEN IT'S SPRINGTIME IN ALASKA, an old Johnny Horton ditty. AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA - the Pogues version is quite angry. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Bugsy Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:24 PM A couple of Eric Bogle's. Dan GLASGOW LULLABY WHEN THE WIND BLOWS NEVER AGAIN AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT. TENNESSEE WALTZ CHeers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Leadfingers Date: 18 Oct 06 - 08:35 PM The Music Hall had a few Pissed Off people as well - What about the old lament - "THE DARK GIRL DRESSED IN BLUE" for a start ? Or "THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE"? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: frogprince Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:02 PM "several years back someone put music to, and expanded the joke about the woman who sells a classic Corvette for $300 (or some such rediculously low $s)." John McCutcheon (or at least he performs it). |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:41 PM Yes, John McCutcheon wrote it; also recorded by Charlie King. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Artful Codger Date: 18 Oct 06 - 10:39 PM "Abe Carmen", in Peter Bellamy's second version, packs a good bit of bile. And there's Eubie Blake's "Hit the Road": a woman's instructions in no uncertain terms to her philandering husband. "LONG LANKIN" was clearly pissed off when he did a slice-and-dice on his neighbor's young wife and baby. A propos of gleeful bloodfests, in the version I learned of "With Her Head", "Gadzooks, she's gonna tell him off for having spilt her gore." --- WARNING: THREAD CREEP The poem Abby quoted by "Black Bart, the Po8" (Charles Boles aka. Bolton) is genuine, but her comments echoed a couple common myths. Despite his self-chosen sobriquet, he was not really in the habit of leaving poems at his hold-ups. Over his entire eight year career as a stage robber, in which he is credited for at least 27 known robberies and attempts, he left poems at only his fourth and fifth heists; then he abandoned the affectation. His entire poetic corpus consists of just twelve lines. He once said that he contemplated leaving another poem at his last hold-up, but he may have been gilding the lily. How pissed off he was is also a matter of conjecture. The poems seem intentionally designed to throw off the scent. He wrote the lines in different handwriting styles, and the doggerel and swearing helped create an impression of a man quite different from his San Francisco alter ego, an urbane mining executive (as he pretended to be) of sober habits. He couldn't hide his natural persona completely, though - he was unusually courteous when conducting hold-ups, and abstained from robbing stage passengers. Furthermore, below that famous first poem, he added this note: "Driver, give my respects to our old friend, the other driver; but I really had a notion to hang my old disguise hat on his weather eye." There's more twinkle than spitfire in his tone. His second poem is probably closer to the truth than the first: "Here I lay me down to sleep To wait the coming morrow Perhaps success, perhaps defeat, And everlasting sorrow. Let come what will I'll try it on My condition can't be worse; But if there's money in the box Tis munny in my purse." Upon Bolton's release, a newsman asked him if he intended to write more verse. With characteristic wit, he replied something like, "Young man, didn't you hear me say I would commit no more crimes?" His first poem has indeed been incorporated into songs. One example, "El Corrido de Bartolo Negro" appears in Katie Lee's Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle - though both the song and Lee's commentary are rife with errors. (Lee also quotes the poems in a curious composite form, with the first embedded in the middle of the second, the way they once appeared in a circular about the robberies and which was soon copied.) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Uncle Phil Date: 18 Oct 06 - 10:48 PM "If ever I return all your cities I will burn, destroying all the ladies in the area-o" always sounds like someone is a little miffed. -Phil |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: GUEST,DS Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:51 AM There's JIM JONES which might count more as bitter than pissed off. The last verse goes (from memory): Oh it's day and night the irons clang and like poor galley slaves, We toil and toil and when we die must fill dishonored graves, But it's by and by I'll slip me chains and to the bush I'll go, And I'll join the brave bush rangers there Jack Donohue & Co. And some dark night when everything is silent in the town, I'll shoot the buggers one and all - I'll gun the floggers down, Oh I'll give the law no little shock remember what I say, And they'll yet regret they brought Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay. Cyril Tawney's FIVE FOOT FLIRT is pissed off: You're my 5' flirt in the robes of an angel, Ya better had leave I alone, Why the way you're behavin' it nearly unnerves I, The thing that preserves I is my joviality. Though I've got trouble as thick as my stubble, It's you that's the worst of them all, So get out of me track and if ya wants to come back, You can crawl, crawl, crawl. Seems to me that writing something pissed off is like writing something bawdy or pornographic; it's easy compared to writing something clever that's pissed off, bawdy or pornographic. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Bunnahabhain Date: 19 Oct 06 - 10:18 AM Quite a bit of Show of hands writing is more than slightly pissed off. ROOTS, on their latest is a good example. If you're in East Anglia, get Simon Richie to do his version of 'I am an Antichrist'. A morris dancer declaring himself to be an anarchist just seems right, if somewhat obvious. And it's punk on a melodion..... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: The Borchester Echo Date: 19 Oct 06 - 10:33 AM What Simon Ritchie does is Anarchy In The UK. And he doesn't sound in the slightest bit pissed off. Quite joyful really. On the other hand, just about everything Steve Knightley has written for SoH pisses me off. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:33 PM There's a whole category of songs about the bad conditions in (whatever) jail. Here's three that come immediately to mind: Hard Times in the Crider County Jail Hard Times in the Wise County Jail Hard Times in Durant Jail. These are all different songs, not merely the substitution of the city or county jurisdiction. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Bunnahabhain Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:44 PM I though I'd proof-read that. More coffee needed... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Steve-o Date: 19 Oct 06 - 01:26 PM A great Civil War song from a truly pissed-off guy: I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL (C-Am, C-Am, etc.) Now I'm a good old rebel, now that's just what I am And for this land of freedom I do not give a damn I'm glad I fought against it... I only wish we'd won And I don't want no pardon for anything I've done I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do I hates the Declaration of Independence too I hates the glorious union....'tis driven with our blood And I hates the striped banner, I fought it all I could BREAK Three hundred thousand Yankees are stiff in Southern dust We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us They died of Southern fever, and Southern steel and shot And I wish it was three million instead of what we got I won't be reconstructed, I'm better now than then And for that Carpetbagger, I don't give a damn So I'm off for the frontier... soon as I can go I'll prepare a weapon and start for Mexico Words by Major Innes Randolph, CSA, to the tune of "Joe Bowers" Note that about 10 REALLY obnoxious verses are omitted in Ry Cooder's version (crap about joining the KKK, etc.) |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BROWN SKIN GIRL (Lord Invader) From: MorwenEdhelwen1 Date: 07 Jun 11 - 06:45 PM How about this one? BROWN SKIN GIRL (Lord Invader-covered by the Mighty Terror)
1. What's wrong with you, Miss Ivy, girl? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: MorwenEdhelwen1 Date: 07 Jun 11 - 06:47 PM Pretty angry. Especially "Tell me how a monkey can make a cat!" and "Go cut down the tree where you grind your axe." Ouch. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Midchuck Date: 07 Jun 11 - 07:40 PM Well, since I seemed destined to post to this thread just about every five years, what about the MARCH OF CAMBREADTH, by the former Heather Alexander? Peter |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Jack Campin Date: 07 Jun 11 - 07:54 PM I reckon this lady deserves a song: texting in a Texas cinema |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Joe_F Date: 07 Jun 11 - 09:36 PM I'm an ordinary figure in these democratic states, A pathetic demonstration of hereditary traits. As the children of the cops possess the flattest kind of feet And the daughter of a floosy has a wiggle to her seat, My position at the bottom of society I owe To the qualities my parents bequeathed me long ago. My father was a married man, and what is even more, He was married to my mother, a fact that I deplore. I was born in holy wedlock; consequently bye and bye I was rooked by every bastard with plunder in his eye. I invested, I deposited, I voted every fall, And if I saved a penny, the bastards took it all. At last I've learned my lesson and I'm on the proper track: I'm a self-appointed bastard, and I'm going to get it back. -- Ogden Nash, "Four Prominent Bastards", last stanza (1933, in case you thought it topical) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: eftifino Date: 08 Jun 11 - 02:36 AM How about: Shaddap You Face! - Joe Dolce NORWEGIAN WOOD - Beatles Little girl - Beatles YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM - Jim Croce Pistol Slapper Blues - Rory Gallagher GOING TO MY HOME TOWN - Rory gallagher |
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Subject: RE: Songs about truly pissed-off people From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 08 Jun 11 - 02:50 AM I WILL GO. After years of foreign fighting. "When we came back to the glen, The winter was turning, Our goods lay in the snow And our houses were burning." |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I HOPE YOU DIE (John Wing) From: GUEST,Paddybee Date: 08 Jun 11 - 07:29 AM John Wing's I HOPE YOU DIE Woke up this morning and you were gone I read your note that said "So long" You said this love would last our lives- I hope your face breaks out in hives! Ch: I hope you die a painful death I hope you choke on your next breath You screwed me up, You done me wrong I hope you die before too long I hope you have a heart attack I hope your breasts get really slack You were my girl but now you're not I hope you die, I hope you rot. And I don't want to be your friend I only want your life to end You're back in town, someone else's pal I hope you drown in the love canal I hope you die a painful death I hope you choke on your next breath You screwed me up, You done me wrong I hope you die before too long I hope you die before I end this song... I hopeyou die, I really hope you die Die,die,die.... I really hope you die. |
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