Subject: Your favourite song/tune title From: Alexis Date: 30 Apr 03 - 08:41 AM Looking through a tune book last night I came across what must be the best title ever; "the stool of repentance". What would the B side be, I wonder? "I should never have eaten it" perhaps ? What's your favourite? Alex |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Firecat Date: 30 Apr 03 - 08:54 AM This might be boring but I think "The Movie In My Mind" is a great title. And it's a good song too!!!! |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Snuffy Date: 30 Apr 03 - 09:04 AM A couple of Irish tunes spring to mind: The Floating Crowbar Take her Out And Air Her |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Sam L Date: 30 Apr 03 - 09:06 AM I keep trying to remember the band who did an instrumental called Where The Fuck's My Wallet. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: greg stephens Date: 30 Apr 03 - 09:19 AM "The beautiful island of somewhere", "James Porteous' Farewell to old Dr Clapperton" and "Slip it in easy" all spring to mind. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,James Date: 30 Apr 03 - 09:20 AM Dylan's It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:05 AM "Time Wounds All Heels" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:39 AM Push the Pig's Feet Further Into the Fire |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Russ Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:45 AM Kick Mr. Possum and He Won't Come Down |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: kendall Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:46 AM "She wont get under me 'til I get over you" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: radriano Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:49 AM My favorite Irish tune title is "The Pope's Toe" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,smokeyjoe Date: 30 Apr 03 - 10:50 AM "I'm givin' up on disco, and goin' back to playin' the blues" -Big Jack Johnson "If drinkin' don't kill me, her memory will" -George Jones to name a couple.... |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 30 Apr 03 - 12:34 PM Why Don't we Get Drunk and Screw? by Jimmy Buffett |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Apr 03 - 12:50 PM Irish fiddle tune: "I Murdered My Wife and Danced on Her Grave". Bruce |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Don Firth Date: 30 Apr 03 - 12:56 PM "You've Flushed Me from the Bathroom of Your Heart." The Glen Campbell Song Book Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: meg Date: 30 Apr 03 - 05:21 PM I've got a friend in a Chicago-area Celtic group, whose latest album was titled "The Stool of Repentance." But local media and bar owners kept hearing it wrong, and would call it "The Stew of Repentance" on posters and whatnot. There's a meal to regret.... Personally, I think The Merry Sisters of Fate is a great tune name. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Lin in Kansas Date: 30 Apr 03 - 05:42 PM I like "Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life." Lin |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Ely Date: 01 May 03 - 12:08 AM "You Married My Daughter But You Didn't" "Merrily Kiss the Quaker" (I used to play a set on the hammered dulcimer of "Road to Lisdoonvarna", "Merrily Kiss the Quaker", and "Haste to the Wedding", more for the sake of the titles than because the songs went together). I'm a Quaker and everybody got a big hoot out of it when I played them at meeting, since everybody who isn't Quaker thinks we must be dour and humorless. Or, they think we're Amish, but that's another set of stories . . . |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Kaleea Date: 01 May 03 - 02:47 AM Ely, I have a friend who is Quaker (pun intended!) and he used to always request that I play/sing "I Merrily Kissed the Quaker's Wife & I merrily Kissed the Quaker . . ." which he learned to play on Mountain dulcimer! |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Leadfingers Date: 01 May 03 - 02:55 AM One from(would you believe)Ewan MacColl,written at the time of China's Red Revolution-- The Democratic Peace Loving People of the West Will Not Be Overcome By the Revolutionary Hordes of the Peoples Republic of China Rag--Its also the longest song title I know. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bat Goddess Date: 01 May 03 - 03:42 PM "Living in Braintree With You In Methuen Is Almost Like Living In Lowell" and it's a fun song to sing, too, with some of the worst puns I've ever run into in a song. Then again, puns in songs might be a topic for another thread. Linn |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Date: 01 May 03 - 04:44 PM "Get your biscuits in the oven, and your buns in the bed" sung I think by Kinky Freidmann, if not it should have been. Giok |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: mack/misophist Date: 01 May 03 - 06:19 PM Country has the best titles: Thank You, Dear Lord, For Victory in Korea My Tears Have Washed 'I Love You' From the Blackboard of my Heart I've Got Tears In My Ears From Layin' On My Back, Crying My Heart Out Over You They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More Ride 'Em JewBoy the last two from Kinkey Friedman |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Russ Date: 01 May 03 - 07:05 PM How can I miss you if you won't go away? |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bat Goddess Date: 01 May 03 - 07:21 PM Lines from the above song (Living in Braintree) -- "When you left, dear, some of your pets lingered on / I took my wrath out on your poodle, he put it out on the lawn / So it's like you're still here, dear. A part of you sticks to my sole. / Living in Braintree with you in Methuen is almost like living in Lowell." "Since you left you took my balls, dear. So without you I can't even bowl. / Living in Braintree with you in Methuen is almost like living in Lowell." Linn |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: michaelr Date: 01 May 03 - 08:31 PM "Fairly Shot of Her" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,HOMESgirl Date: 01 May 03 - 11:06 PM "Thank God and Greyhound, You're Gone!" I heard Roy Clark sing this at the Illinois State Fair as a kid in the '70s, and have never forgotten it! |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: CRANKY YANKEE Date: 02 May 03 - 06:56 AM "A CROWDED ELEVATOR SMELLS DIFFERENT TO A MIDGET" It's a parody of "Little Boxes" pertains to the "Hippies" in Greenwich Villiage (in New York City)and how they "all look just the same", just like the Little Boxes all look just the same. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: alanabit Date: 02 May 03 - 10:36 AM A friend of mine who is a big country fan once played me a song called "Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial", which is one of the few country songs I have ever enjoyed. When you think about its subject matter, Randy Newman's "Political Science" is a beautifully deadpan title. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 May 03 - 11:03 AM I don't know if these exist, they just came to me by osmosis. While peeping through the knothole in Grandma's wooden leg. I'm dancing with tears in my eyes 'cause the girl in my arms is a boy. My Uncle used to love me, but she died. Giok |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: PoppaGator Date: 02 May 03 - 11:16 AM "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away," circa 1972, is by Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, a great California outfit specializing in humorous tunes played (with dead seriousness and consummate skill) in a Western Swing style. I'm pretty sure the instrumentation was all-acoustic, with a very hot fiddle prominently featured. *All* of Dan's songs were/are hilarious, but I can't think of a title any better than this one. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Merritt Date: 02 May 03 - 12:51 PM "You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone" I've tried to put together a political tune about Ralph Nader entitled, "You're Right, I'm Left, He's Green" but I must have tollbooths on my sysnapses. Never seems to work. Great thread. - Merritt "It's all one big note." - Frank Zappa |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Russ Date: 02 May 03 - 01:18 PM The Last Shot Got Him (fiddle tune) |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: alanabit Date: 02 May 03 - 03:17 PM Mississippi John Hurt did a piece called First Shot Missed Him. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Strupag Date: 02 May 03 - 03:57 PM In my old Merchant Navy days there was a rather rude song "I was in Bagdad afore you were in yer dad's Bag" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Date: 02 May 03 - 04:43 PM Ochone ochone Matelot |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST Date: 02 May 03 - 09:41 PM I came across a fiddle tune credited to Traditional called "The Lone Appendicitis". (I hope I spelled that right - like when your appendix bursts). I don't know what it means. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,rangersteve Date: 03 May 03 - 08:01 AM the above GUEST addition was from me, RangerSteve. I don't know how I became a GUEST. |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 03 May 03 - 08:32 PM There's an old John Hartford song called "I've Heard That Tear-Stained Monologue You Do There By The Door Before You Go". It's so absurdly long that it is wonderful. Stephen Lee |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: khandu Date: 03 May 03 - 10:16 PM "I'ma Cranky Old Yank in my Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokahama with my Honolulu Mama, Singing Those Neato, Beato, Back o' my Seato, Hirohito Blues". That was originally the actual title. I think it was by Cole Porter. khandu |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 May 03 - 04:06 AM An Anthony Newley title just sprung to mind, though whether it was a song or not I can't remember. "Will Heironymous Merkin ever forget Mercy Humpke, and find true happiness?" Any explanations gratefully accepted......Giok |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 May 03 - 04:09 AM Found it myself Not bad remembering considering its over 30 years ago. Giok |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: van lingle Date: 04 May 03 - 10:26 AM "That Was a Million Lite Beers Ago" I don't remember the song but the title stuck with me. I've always liked "Whiskey 'fore Breakfast" the tune and the title and no, I'm not much of a drinker these days. vl |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bat Goddess Date: 04 May 03 - 03:54 PM And then there's "Bigfoot Stole My Wife" last heard by Jimmy McDougal. And "I Spent My Last 10 Dollars on Birth Control and Beer." Linn |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Blackcatter Date: 05 May 03 - 12:17 PM The Weather is here - Wish You Were Beautiful You Call it Jogging (I Call it Running Around) My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus God Don't Own A Car Door Number 3 - Jimmy Buffett |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 05 May 03 - 06:33 PM Frank Zappa had some beauts: Don't you ever wash that thing? Weasel's ripped my flesh. Willie the pimp, etc. I like "Don't spit in your grandfather's broth through the knothole in his wooden leg" and "Meet me outside the pawnshop and I'll kiss you under the balls" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 05 May 03 - 06:45 PM My absolute favorite title was by John MacLauglin's Jazz/Indian Classical band, Shakti. It was an Instrumental entitled "What need have I for this? What need have I for that? I am dancing at the feet of my lord. All is bliss. All is bliss." Rich |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: wysiwyg Date: 05 May 03 - 07:54 PM Feed Your Babies Onions (so you can find them in the dark) Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady.... I've known a few landladies, and if she wasn't blind (as he was), I bet he caught a few lumps! ~Susan |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 06 May 03 - 10:46 AM "Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissin' you goodbye!" |
Subject: RE: Your favourite song/tune title From: Bill D Date: 06 May 03 - 05:16 PM Them C&W songs shure do have the strangest titles, like "Bill Broke My Heart at Walgreens, and I Cried all the Way to Sears" and "Paw Went to Sleep and the Hogs Eat Him" ...but then, they're trying to give the whole point of the story in the title. |
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