Musical Puns?

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: Mo the caller
Date: 22 May 07 - 06:22 AM

No-one seems to have mentioned "What did Della Wear?" That must be old enough to be a folk song by now.

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: GUEST,chris
Date: 22 May 07 - 08:24 AM

try 'faithless sally brown' -mick ryan and pete harris based on a poem by thomas hood.last line runs something like- the crew told the sexton and the sexton tolled the bell
chris

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: Mark H.
Date: 22 May 07 - 09:23 AM

Hear Robin Williamson's "Zoo Blues".

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 May 07 - 08:47 PM

From "Faithless Sally Brown":

Says he, 'They've only taken him
To the Tender-ship, you see;'
'The Tender-ship,' cried Sally Brown,
'What a hard-ship that must be!'
...
'Oh, Sally Brown, oh, Sally Brown,
How could you serve me so?
I've met with many a breeze before,
But never such a blow!'
...
His death, which happened in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll'd the bell.

From "Faithless Nelly Gray":

Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war's alarms,
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms!
...
'Oh, Nelly Gray! Oh, Nelly Gray!
Is this your love so warm?
The love that loves a scarlet coat
Should be more uniform!'
...
'Why then,' said she, 'you've lost the feet
Of legs in war's alarms,
And now you cannot wear your shoes
Upon your feats of arms!'

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 May 07 - 03:08 PM

The version I have of Pearl Bryant (who was known the wild world o'er / Beheaded by Scott Jackson / whom she really did adore) ends with the admonition "Oh girls, don't lose your head!"

And my version of another murder ballad whose name escapes me, but it's about a man who comes to take a woman out walking but kills her instead, and the sister testifies - "She swore I was the very man that took her sister out!"

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 May 07 - 03:16 PM

"While the organ pealed potatoes
Lard was rendered by the choir;
And the sexton wrung the dishrag
Someone set the church on fire.
"Holy Smoke!" the preacher shouted
As he wildly tore his hair;
Now his head resembles Heaven
For there is no parting there. "

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 May 07 - 09:19 PM

Inasmuch as limericks are often sung, one might add

The youth who attend picture palaces
Have no use for psychoanalysis.
Altho Dr Freud
Is distinctly annoyed,
They cling to their long-standing fallacies.

Now everyone likes a butch guy.
That's a fact that we cannot deny.
But between butch & bitch
Is such a small switch --
Just the difference between U & I!

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: GUEST,Al
Date: 23 May 07 - 09:40 PM

I have a nun pun. But the lesbian said about it, the better.

Subject: RE: Musical Puns?
From: JB3
Date: 26 Nov 10 - 02:48 PM

COINWOLF, I learned the hippo song you referred to, in the early seventies, at Berea College, in Kentucky. I never saw it written down, so "rector" could be right. As I think of it, the way I remember the line was, "I frollicked with A vigor in a dozen friendly tussles," so you're probably right. I am very interested in the extra verses you mentioned. Please post them!