Mangled lyrics (song titles)

Subject: Mangled lyrics
From: kendall
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 01:28 PM

What sort of disrespect have you shown for song titles?
Things like "Fox WITH the runs" and "Foggy MINDED breakdown".

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics
From: terrier
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 02:21 PM

Run for the Ty Bach, Nellie (Welsh one that)
Darli'n CURRY
When Puppies Close Their Crimson Eyes
Hold on to the SleiggggggggAGHHHHHHHH
Done Caught A Rabbit Disease

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 02:27 PM

The Irish Indian Restuarant ? The Curry of Kildare ?

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics
From: kendall
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 03:49 PM

Not much action here

Subject: RE: Mangled Song Titles
From: Genie
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:56 PM

Maybe the thread should be "Mangled Song Titles."   (Not to be confused with the "Fun With Mangled Lyrics" thread where you translate songs into another language and back again.)

Gimme time.   Now that you've brought this thread to my attention, I'm sure some mangled song title will pop into my head soon.

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 04:37 AM

Les Barker has done so much for warping the minds of people on both sides of the pond, that it's hard to find anything he HASN'T perverted.... although 'fox with the runs' is going to be hard to beat....

But you know me... I'll try with....


Stairlift to Heaven

Whose sari now?

Smeggy Poo

Everything I chew, I chew it for you.

A grazing Mace.




I'll get me coat.

LTS

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:41 AM

My favorite: Si Bheag Si Mhor => She Begs for More

Another I've heard: Athol Highlanders => Asshole Highlanders

I'd be embarrassed to tell you what my wife's band calls "The White Cockade."

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:43 AM

Ashoken--Ash Can

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:08 PM

Jim, I thought it was "She Begs, She Moans." ;)

Then there's "Mamas, Don't Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Be Babies."

And the classic severed head song:

"I Ain't Got No Body"

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:52 PM

The Camptown Racists

and one I used for one of Aine's Song Challenge!s:

The Christmas Thong

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: GUEST,vectis
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 08:39 PM

Tune title
Blue eyed strangler AKA Blue Hydrangea.
Or are these Mondegreens?

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 10:07 PM

I think they could be Mondegreens, or they could be titles of parodies, spoonerisms or other slips of the tongue we've made in performance, or just "twisted titles" we make up just out of sheer orneriness. :)

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Little Robyn
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 10:57 PM

Snippets from the Kipper Family spring to mind:

Arrest these merry gentlemen
Bald General Coote
Dashing white privates
Dicky riding
The rusty cold farmer
The Lightweight dirge
To be a pharmacist
The village P.I.M.P.
Wild mounting time

There are more but these are all available in the Kipper song book, 'Since Time Immoral'.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Rowan
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 01:11 AM

Pace Little Robyn's "Dashing white privates", I've never heard of a song to the Dashing white sergeant but, over the last 30 years, I've often referred to the dance itself as the Flashing pink privates. Given one of the major roles of dancing it seemed perfectly appropriate.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 02:48 AM

Which reminds me (a bit OT) of something I heard on radio this morning about Pat Tillman's brother, who also enlisted to serve in Afghanistan.   The report said something about, when the guy was shipped off, "his wife kissed his Corporal."   My immediate reaction was, "I bet he'd rather she had kissed his Privates."
;)

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Scrump
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 07:21 AM

More Kipper Family ones (or maybe just Sid) that spring to mind:

- Bored of the Dance
- My Grandfather's Cock
- Arrivederci Cromer
- Jack Onion

And of course as others have said, Les Barker is a good source of more parody titles.

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 03:40 PM

Actually, My Grandfather's Cock is a long-extant parody of the well-known Henry Clay Work song.

Isn't there also a "Wild Mounting Time" out there somewhere?

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 04:30 PM

Liz, I kind of like your "Smeggy Poo,"   Should be a hit!

A few more:

Buy Me a Beer, Mister Shane
or
My Queer Mister Shane

Makers of SPAM

Adam In The Yard Unpinning Leaves

After The Brawl

Age Of Asparagus or   Sage On Asparagus

Achin' Drum

Ain't Gonna Heave My Load No More

Can't Help But Wander - So I'm Bound

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 03:42 AM

Then there's that great Motown hit... Gonads (Go now).

LTS

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:31 AM

Gillian's Banjo

Julian's Banjo

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Genie
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:30 AM

Or the recovering bulimic's theme song:   Ain't Gonna Heave My Lunch No More

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:05 PM

There's the Nappy song by Kenny Rogers... the Gambler.

"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run....."

LTS

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Bernard
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 08:02 PM

Wigan Work It Out...

Sammy's Barred...

Not forgetting the Eagles' Irish Tribute band 'The Eejits' and their song 'Hotel Connemara'...


Erm... the Dashing White Sergeant is a song... I've known it since I was a nipper in the 1950s.

Now the fiddler's ready, let us all begin,
So step it out and step it in
To the merry music of the violin
We'll dance the hours away.

Katie and Peggy and Patsy and Coll,
Callum and Peter and Flora and Moll;
Dance, dance, dance, dance,
Dance away the hours together.

Dance till dawn be in the sky,
What care you and what care I?
Hearts a-beating, spirits high
We'll dance, dance, dance!

(by Scottish conductor Sir Hugh S. Roberton)

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 08:26 PM

Instead of "The Dashing White Sergeant,"
how about
"The Surging White Dachshund"
;-D

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: GUEST,Guest: Genie
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:07 PM

Hmm.   I see someone ate my cookie.   
???

Might as well add a couple more groaners:

We all know the classic "While Shepherds Washed Their Socks By Night"
The sequel is:
Bagels We Have Scarfed When High

And the song you sing when a bandmate makes an equipment complaint before a gig:

"Go Tell A Roadie"

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Oct 06 - 06:10 PM

Every time I go past a certain chain of Italian/American restaurants, I can't help myself but I sing:

Frankie and Benny were lovers....

LTS

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 06:15 PM

Sorry, it's not a title, but there's that old song that Willie Nelson revived a while back with the first line that my band used to sing "In the Twilight Zone, I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain".

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: terrier
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 06:42 PM

Years ago, I remember a number of short folk songs, I can only remember two at the moment:

'tis true my love has listed, to 45 degrees!
and
The gallant frigate Amphitrite, she sank in Plymouth Sound.

Subject: RE: Mangled lyrics (song titles)
From: Little Robyn
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:40 PM

The gallant frigate Araldite, she stuck in Plymouth Sound
Robyn