Humour C and W Style

Subject: Humour C and W Style
From: Ian Kirk
Date: 26 Nov 98 - 01:29 PM

1. What happens if you play a Country and Western record backwards?

You get your job back You get you wife back You get your truck back

2. Dumbest title for a song, and I believe its real though I've never heard it

" How can I miss you if you won't go away"

Any more?

Ian

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Richard McD. Bridge
Date: 26 Nov 98 - 05:11 PM

I once saw a list of the 30 worst all time r*e*a*l C+W songtitles and I've been looking for it ever since. One was "Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life" and I think another was "Get your tongue out of my mouth 'cos I'm kissing you goodbye". Can anyone direct me to the systematic original?

Likewise a list of C+W musical terms (which I hardly remember at all)

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 26 Nov 98 - 07:52 PM

Richard,

Sometimes I think there are multiple parallel universes here on the Mudcat. A recent thread entitle Most Un-favorite Song Topics has generated many from the C & W pad pun group, including the ones already mentioned in this thread. Just click here Sorry, I don't know of the specific list you requested.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Brack&
Date: 26 Nov 98 - 08:06 PM

Worked my fingers to the bone, what did I get, boney fingers.

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: SteveF
Date: 27 Nov 98 - 08:51 AM

To Richard McD:

"Take your Tongue out of my Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye" is not a true C & W number, but a nonsense parody of the C & W genre recorded (and probably composed) by Ray Stevens. I don't remember which casette it's on -- the tape went to college a few years ago with #2 kid.

If you actually wish to obtain a copy, contact http://www.raystevens.com/index.html and post your query directly to Ray in the e-mail URL.

-- Steve F.

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: rich r
Date: 27 Nov 98 - 11:41 PM

"Boney Fingers" written and recorded by Hoyt Axton.

rich r

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: BSeed
Date: 27 Nov 98 - 11:51 PM

I just had reason to post this title to another threadl, but the chours belongs here. Somewhere I have the words to this:

"May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose"

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose,
May an elephant caress you with his toes,
May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose,
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose!

--seed

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Gene
Date: 28 Nov 98 - 08:36 PM

Dropkick Me Jesus
was recorded by Bobby Bare

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: BSeed
Date: 28 Nov 98 - 08:58 PM

That it was, and for a year or two it was the theme song for Monday Night Football until Hank Jr. came along with his "We're gonna have a party..." --seed

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: dwditty
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 12:02 AM

Kinky Freidman has some gems - he may have written "Drop Kick Me..." but I am not sure. Then there's George (What a voice) Jones doing "If Your Phone Don't Ring, It'll Be Me." "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away" was done by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: McMusic
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 01:32 AM

Did hear one once titled "Whoever Turned You On, Forgot To Turn You Off."

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: mm
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 08:18 AM

There's a very funny song from the 1940s called "Cocaine" with extremely cheery accordion and guitar accompaniment which starts:

Early one morning I was doing my rounds Took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down I went home and I went to bed Put that loving 44 beneath my head

and goes on from there. It's not what happens that's funny, but the super-cheerful tone, including faintly Germanic accordion chorus in between the vers

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Gene
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 12:45 PM

Kinky Friedman was not the author of
Dropkick Me Jesus

Paul Craft wrote it, among others....

Blue Heartache
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life
It's me again Margaret
Bluegrass Express
Brother Jukebox
to name a few...

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 09:35 PM

another thread to read thru for those who missed it the first time...with more country classics

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: McMusic
Date: 29 Nov 98 - 10:12 PM

The Austin Lounge Lizards do a great song called "Paint Me On Velvet". It's a real hoot!

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 02:40 PM

How can we miss "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"? The story of Steve Goodman sending David Alan Coe "The perfect country song" David sends it back saying it's not the perfect country song because it doesn't say anything about mama or trucks or trains or gettin' drunk. Steve then adds another verse, which leads David Alan to admit that he had now written the perfect country song. The last verse goes: "Well I was drunk the day my ma got outta prison, and I went to pick her up in the rain, but before I could get to the station in my Pick-up truck, She got runned over by a danged ol' train."

I think that one is tough to top.

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 03:07 PM

To coin a phrase, Dropkick Me Jesus is in the DT. With correct attribution.

Subject: RE: Humour C and W Style
From: Earl
Date: 30 Nov 98 - 03:24 PM

I always liked "Pardon Me, Are Those Your Tears on the Juke Box" but I don't think it's supposed to be funny.