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01 Nov 09 - 10:56 AM (#2757257) Subject: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger Can anyone add to the following list of non-songs: (A la Nat King Cole) "Unforgettable, that's... um...." "You made me love you, You woke me up to do it, you woke me up to do it" "I'm just a girl who cain't say n.. n.. n..." Or in the folk idiom: "The gallant frigate Amphirite, she sank in Plymouth sound" "The rain is softly falling, and the Oggy Man's still there" "As I was a walking down Paradise Street, ... nothing happened" "My name it is Van Gogh, lend an ear, lend an ear..." From the 60s: "My trousers they are baggy, I know they are, I know they are I had them made so they would catch the wind." There must be hundreds of others. Please send them in. Tradsinger |
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01 Nov 09 - 11:06 AM (#2757263) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion "Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare." "No!" |
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01 Nov 09 - 11:30 AM (#2757285) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: frogprince I think Garth Brooks should be burned for sacrilige. Over 50 years ago, I heard Carl Sandburg sing the world's shortest blues lyric: Papa loved Mama; Mama loved men; Mama's in the graveyard; Papa's in the pen. Brooks stuck that in as part of the chorus of a full length song; I doubt if more than a tiny fraction of those who hear it have any idea where he got it, and he ruined the whole point of it. |
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01 Nov 09 - 11:46 AM (#2757297) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Les in Chorlton It's true my love has listed to 45 degrees |
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01 Nov 09 - 12:32 PM (#2757324) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bill D "My name it is Van Gogh, lend an ear, lend an ear..."......of course, there's an entire song to go with this. But there's always, "Michael, row the boat ashore, For I fear I've lost my oar." or "When the saints go marchin' in, Oh I want to see one stumble..." |
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01 Nov 09 - 12:42 PM (#2757333) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Barbara Is this short enough?
Funny but when.... Funny butt? Who's got a funny butt? Get your clothes on and get out of here! Blessings, Barbara |
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01 Nov 09 - 12:44 PM (#2757336) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Young Buchan Oh hangman stay thy eeaarrgghh. |
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01 Nov 09 - 01:01 PM (#2757349) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Leadfingers Marty Robbins took (I Think) about six minutes ! try :- One night in the Wild West town of El Paso I met a girl and I got shot and died . |
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01 Nov 09 - 01:08 PM (#2757353) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Acorn4 Minimalism - no! |
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01 Nov 09 - 01:42 PM (#2757376) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Paul Reade The world's shortest blues: "I overslept this morning" |
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01 Nov 09 - 02:22 PM (#2757396) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Herga Kitty The keeper did a shooting go, and on the way he dropped his bow... As I walked out one May morning Nothing happened so I went home The gallant frigate Araldite, she stuck to Plymouth Sound Did you ever see a wild goose sailing over the ocean? Nope If I only could remember just what I have done... Kitty |
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01 Nov 09 - 02:43 PM (#2757407) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion "Bugger-off, all ye..." |
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01 Nov 09 - 02:57 PM (#2757420) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Don Firth To "Don't Get Around Much Anymore:" Missed the toilet last night;Don Firth |
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01 Nov 09 - 03:08 PM (#2757424) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Don Firth On "The Red Green Show," a Canadian comedy show, there is a recurring character who is a roofer by trade and who aspires to become a country singer. Whenever he appears, he's always wearing a cast and a neck brace and he has a guitar sitting on his lap. He writes his own songs, to which the other characters tend to grimace and wince. Here's one of his songs. Not exact, but as close as I can remember it. It doesn't rhyme, it doesn't scan, and it can be sung to any rambling tune that you can make up on the spot. When you feel like a frog hopping down the road of life,Don Firth |
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01 Nov 09 - 03:34 PM (#2757435) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Arkie Heard John Denver sing this once: Ballad of Spiro Agnew I'll sing you the ballad of Spiro Agnew And all the things he has done. (followed by a minute or so of silence and then a giggle) |
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01 Nov 09 - 05:22 PM (#2757516) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger A good start, I have just remembered the start of the shift-worker's blues: "Went to bed this morning ....." Tradsinger |
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01 Nov 09 - 05:31 PM (#2757526) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST There were two brothers, two noble warriors They fell in love with a lady gay She wasn't interested, of course So they went home... |
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01 Nov 09 - 05:55 PM (#2757547) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Joe_F On Friday morning we set sail, And we sank to the bottom of the sea. |
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01 Nov 09 - 06:39 PM (#2757579) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave MacKenzie There were a lot of what we called short ballads around in the 60s. If you ever go across the sea to Ireland I hope the bloody boat sinks on the way. I am a man of constant sorrow - bang! Where have you been all day, Henry my son? Out. |
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01 Nov 09 - 07:31 PM (#2757611) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Gurney Lasla Feyer stole a stallion, His sister tried to bribe the judge. She got screwed and he got hung, Serve the pair of bastards right! I googled Lasla Feyer to check the spelling, and found the old 'Mini Ballads' thread where I posted it before! |
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01 Nov 09 - 07:55 PM (#2757618) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Gerry Allan Sherman was the master of the genre, giving us I know a man, his name is Lang, and he has a neon sign/Now Mr Lang is very old, so they call it Old Lang's Sign. and [to the tune of Aura Lee] Every time you take vaccine, take it orally. As you know, the otehr way is more painfully. and On top of Old Smokey, all covered with hair/Of course I'm referring to Smokey the Bear. and so many others. Many to be found at http://dmdb.org/sherman/ |
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02 Nov 09 - 05:09 AM (#2757764) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: muppett Are you going to Scarbrough fair? No ! Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea, and drowned I've been a wild Rover for many a year and spent all me money on whisky & beer, and now I'm skint Is this the way to Amerillo? No Well how do you do young Willie Mcbride (He's dead) It's a long long way from Claire to Here I know What shall we do with the drunken sailor Nowt let him sleep it off Have you seen the old man in the closed down market? Yep. We looked for the sloop john B, ME Grand pappy and me. And we couldn't find it. |
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02 Nov 09 - 05:32 AM (#2757770) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: BobKnight My son wrote a wee song which goes: "I started writing this song, but then I turned the TV on." That's it!! |
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02 Nov 09 - 05:45 AM (#2757778) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" (condensed) : "Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards. Then they rode home, but not the 600". |
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02 Nov 09 - 06:38 AM (#2757812) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dead Horse This is the story of the old 49 Fastest locomotive on the Santa Fe line She left Baltimore at a helluva dash She arrived on time and she did not crash! |
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02 Nov 09 - 06:54 PM (#2758324) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego One of my cohorts hit my send key before anything was on the page....sorry. I like the Johnny Cash takeoff on "I Walk the Line." I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep my pants up with a piece of twine. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds; Just say you're mine.....I'll cut the twine. another; Wonder why there's no sun up in the sky, Must be nighttime... |
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02 Nov 09 - 07:13 PM (#2758335) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave MacKenzie Ground Control to Major Thom (2*) Switch off that tv camera and put your trousers on. |
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02 Nov 09 - 07:19 PM (#2758337) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Acorn4 Fairly short and a bit silly:- Famous Belgians Someone I know does a 20 second version of Tam Lin - does anyone know that one? |
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03 Nov 09 - 12:15 AM (#2758433) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hanson Tom Paxtons great song ' The Ballad of Spiro Agnew ' I'll sing of Spiro Agnew, And all the things he's done. Dave H |
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03 Nov 09 - 01:06 AM (#2758435) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Joe Offer World's shortest cowboy song: I'm so lonesome in the saddle Since my horse died. Succinct, isn't it? -Joe- |
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03 Nov 09 - 02:36 AM (#2758449) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger People will say we're in...sane. I think that I will never see A dog that walks right past a tree. |
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03 Nov 09 - 03:19 AM (#2758460) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Genie OK, Joe, you beat me to the dead horse song, but here's another succinct western ditty: Blood on the saddle, blood on the ground, Blood sprayed everywhere around. Pity the cowboy lyin' there dead - The damned fool horse done stepped on his head! |
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03 Nov 09 - 03:51 AM (#2758474) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: evansakes The great Shel Silverstein (who wrote 'Boy Named Sue', 'Queen of The Silver Dollar', 'Ballad of Lucy Jordan', 'Cover of Rolling Stone' among others) came up with a great country pastiche (which you can hear on Spotify) Intro Verse "All the DJs keep complaining my tunes are way too long So I went and wrote myself a twenty six second song" Turnaround lick to close. |
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03 Nov 09 - 03:56 AM (#2758479) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy I see by my outfit that I'm a cowboy too We see by our outfits that we both are cowboys If you get an outfit you can be a cowboy too. |
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03 Nov 09 - 04:00 AM (#2758482) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hanson As I walked out on the streets of Laredo, It was half day closing, feck. Dave H |
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03 Nov 09 - 12:33 PM (#2758740) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave MacKenzie Blood on the Saddle's a bit longer - I think I got in from Sing Out: There was blood on the saddle, And blood on the ground, And a great big puddle Of blood all around. The cowboy lay in it All covered in gore, And he won't go riding No broncos no more. Oh, pity the cowboy, All bloody and red, For his bronco fell on him And mashed in his head. There was blood on the saddle, And blood on the ground, And a great big puddle Of blood all around. |
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03 Nov 09 - 01:09 PM (#2758766) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Marion Pitman Dead Man blues - Didn't wake up this morning and A holiday, a holiday, and the first day of the year, It rained in droves so Matty Groves stayed home and washed his hair. |
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03 Nov 09 - 02:58 PM (#2758859) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Songbob Several things occur to me. One is that I completed the "Ultimate Blues" cited above: I didn't wake up this morning... Didn't get out of bed. But when I didn't miss my baby, I knew that I was dead. Didn't have no coffee, Didn't look down in my cup; Didn't say, "Good Morning" to the blues, 'Cause I never did wake up. Cho: Got those never-no-'mo, I'm-dead-fo'-sho Blues. --- I wrote this with some other people, and there are more verses, most of which are puns ("didn't end the day bein' dead-drunk/'cause I started it bein' dead" is one example). --- But the shortest song I know is (to the tune of "Jealousy"*): Entropy! Why mussst there ... ZZZ-ZZZ-ZZz (sung in a nodding-off fashion) Joe Hickerson used to sing one that went, Come back with my wife, you horse-thief! --- Bob Clayton * There is a parody of this song called, "Leprosy," which I think I had in mind when I wrote "Entropy." |
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03 Nov 09 - 06:28 PM (#2758983) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dead Horse Modern version of Greenland Whale Fisheries. Twas in the year of 2009 At half past ten, to the minute We didnt set sail for to catch any whale For we had reached our limit! Napoleons Farewell To Paris Adieu Paris! |
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03 Nov 09 - 06:37 PM (#2758992) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave MacKenzie Which reminds me of a Pat Sky LP which included "Mississippi John Hurt Sings Gilbert and Sullivan" Gilbert and Sullivan |
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04 Nov 09 - 03:21 AM (#2759181) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hanson I'll sing you one o One o. Dave H |
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04 Nov 09 - 04:27 AM (#2759205) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Genie Flanders and Swann's "Tonga" - Oh, it's hard to say "Oly-ma-kitty-luca-chi-chi-chi," But in Tonga, that means "No"! If I ever have the money, 'tis to Tonga I shall go., For each lovely Tongan maiden there, will gladly make a date, And by the time she's said: "Oly-ma-kitty-luca-chi-chi-chi," It is usually too late! |
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04 Nov 09 - 04:44 AM (#2759211) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare. No ! |
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04 Nov 09 - 05:18 AM (#2759231) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion Bryan Pugh — look at the 2nd posting on this thread. Mine. Identical to your last one. Copycat!!! Regards Michael |
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04 Nov 09 - 05:19 AM (#2759232) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion PS - sorry to have spelt your forename wrong, tho... |
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04 Nov 09 - 06:28 AM (#2759257) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Mr Red When the Alabama's keel was laid, Roll Alabama, Roll, They went on strike and it never got made, Roll, Roll, Alabama, Roll, And the first time I sang it - Camell Laird went on strike. & I sing the words not written by Ogden Nash nor Senator Sam Irvine The rain it raineth on the just, and also on the unjust fella. But most it raineth on the just, cos unjust just stole the just's umbrella. To a tune that resembles "Bold Riley". |
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04 Nov 09 - 07:14 AM (#2759282) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman As I went out walking on the streets of Laredo As I was out walking in Laredo one day I met a young cowboy all dressed in white leather All dressed in white leather and perfectly healthy. |
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04 Nov 09 - 07:17 AM (#2759284) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman ... Were they spickled and spackled, Lord Randall my son? Were they spickled and spackled, my darling young one? No, they were fine, Mother! No, they were fine, Mother! |
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04 Nov 09 - 07:43 AM (#2759296) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dead Horse Oh where have you been, my blue eyed son? Where have you been, my darling young one? Out. |
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04 Nov 09 - 07:56 AM (#2759303) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman ... And the very first stroke that Matty struck, He missed Lord Arlen completely. And the very first stroke Lord Arlen struck, Matty put on his clothes and left. When first I came to Louisville My fortune there to find A met a fair young maiden there We got married and lived happily ever after. |
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04 Nov 09 - 08:05 AM (#2759312) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hunt I yanked my doodle it was dandy! ________________ She wore no jewels , nor costly diamonds She wore no clothes - no, bugger all But a leather G-sting with studs upon it And round her shoulders was a rubber shawl _____________ |
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04 Nov 09 - 10:17 AM (#2759391) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger (To the tune of Bushes and Briars) It was on the fifth of August On March the eighteenth day. Wha....? |
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04 Nov 09 - 11:04 AM (#2759410) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Will ye gang to the Hielans, Leezie Lyndsay ? No. (Will these do, MtheGM ?) How about : Are ye going to Scarborough Fair ? No. Came ye o'er from France ? No. Came ye not from Newcastle ? No. Will you come to the bower ? No. |
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04 Nov 09 - 11:23 AM (#2759427) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion Bryn - If you had read the thread before adding to it, as is generally considered courteous around here, you would not have repeated one of my postings — particularly one so prominently placed as the first addition to the thread. Why has the fact that you failed to do so motivated you to be rude and aggressive to me? I ask in genuine puzzlement. |
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04 Nov 09 - 12:06 PM (#2759463) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Acorn4 Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds are currently touting this one; All around my hat I will wear the green willow All around my hat for a twelvemonth and a day, And if anybody asks me the reason that I'm wearing it, I'll say mind your own business, It's my f***ing hat! |
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04 Nov 09 - 02:22 PM (#2759574) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Barry Morty The Blues version of Bob Knight's son's song: Well, I woke up this morning Went to write down this song But then I turned my television on |
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04 Nov 09 - 10:33 PM (#2759848) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Hrothgar There was a wild colonial boy But the coppers shot him. |
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04 Nov 09 - 10:58 PM (#2759866) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Judy Cook Honey, you're a girl who likes whale meat That's an important sign. Funny, I've got nine tons of whale meat Small whale, wasn't it. *** The hills are alive....aaaarrrrghhhhh **** This is your birthday song It isn't very long. ***** |
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04 Nov 09 - 11:02 PM (#2759869) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Susan A-R Hmmm, posted a bunch of stuff earlier today, but must have punched the wrong key at the end. Outside outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend indeed Inside inside of a dog, it's much too dark, too dark to read. A baby sardine saw his first submarine and was scared to look through the peephole "Come, come come" said the sardine's Mum. "It's only a tin full of people. To the tune of "God Save the King" The King he had a date, he stayed out very late, he was a King The Queen she paced the floor, she paced 'til half past four, she meet him at the door God Save the King. I grabbed a tulip, a big yellow tulip and you grabbed a big red rose My house was burning, the green house was burning, and there was no time for clothes Nest day the jurry condemned us with fury for being so exposed. I said "judge quit your stalling, the ptals are falling from his tulip and my red rose. Slithery Dee came out of the sea, he caught all the others, but he won't catch me. Stupit old Slithery Dee. He caught all the others, but he won't catch . . . SLURP I could go on, but . . |
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05 Nov 09 - 02:49 AM (#2759898) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: stallion Burl Ives Hypocondriac song circa 1950's recording(awful spelling I know!) in one breath Oh me legs and me liver and me lites and me lungs they're failing me they're failing me my breath is bad my had is sad I think I'm going crazy |
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05 Nov 09 - 04:06 AM (#2759919) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Dear MtheGM, My sincere and unreserved apology if that is how it came over. I intended my most recent post very much 'tongue in cheek', and I am truly sorry for having offended you. Regards, Bryn |
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05 Nov 09 - 06:40 AM (#2759994) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman Arise, arise, Mary Hamilton Arise and tell to me What thou hast done with thy wee babe I saw and heard weep by thee? Oh, there she is. Never mind. |
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05 Nov 09 - 06:45 AM (#2760001) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,*Laura* "Some songs are very very long, But this one isn't..." |
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05 Nov 09 - 07:31 AM (#2760021) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Leadfingers Susan - Slitherydee is another Shel Siverstein ! (ALWAYS credit your source if you can ) And MY Amphetrite short is even shorter than the previous - The Gallant Frigate Amphetrite sank |
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05 Nov 09 - 08:17 AM (#2760041) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: MGM·Lion Dear Bryn: Of course you meant no offence. In return please excuse my tetchiness — must have had a headache or something. The best of us has these moments of touchy idiocy. Really best regards Michael |
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05 Nov 09 - 08:28 AM (#2760049) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bryn Pugh Not a problem, MtheGM - everyone has a bad day now and again. Kind regards, Bryn |
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05 Nov 09 - 04:19 PM (#2760360) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Ian Gill Taffy Thomas used to do this one years ago, he reckoned it was the shortest sentence in the Bible ; 'Adam ad 'em'. |
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05 Nov 09 - 04:34 PM (#2760379) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,iancarterb My recall of Burl Ives' Hypochondriac Song: Oh my liver, my lights, my legs and my lungs They're paining me, they're paining me. My heart is sad and my breath is bad, And I think I'm going crazy. Carter |
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05 Nov 09 - 07:55 PM (#2760499) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: stallion guess I folked it up! |
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06 Nov 09 - 05:33 AM (#2760667) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Piers Plowman The folk process is ... Never having to admit you forgot the words. |
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08 Nov 09 - 01:15 AM (#2761899) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Clontarf83 I will sing you a song that's not too long Policemen have no fathers (to the tune of the girl i left behind me) (or politicians have no fathers) or mba's etc.. |
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08 Nov 09 - 07:17 AM (#2762017) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Dave Hunt Clontarf83 - I'm sure that's I'll sing you a song and it's not very long All coppers are bastards I'll sing you another just like the other All coppers are bastards (not necessarily my personal feelings - just how I remember it from when I was involved in CND actions in the 60s!) |
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19 Mar 14 - 12:25 PM (#3610907) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Steve Wellcome I was standing on the corner, minding my own business, When along came a man and tied his horse to me. |
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19 Mar 14 - 12:47 PM (#3610912) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: ChuckP I eat my peas with honey I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on the knife. |
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19 Mar 14 - 06:33 PM (#3610996) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger In my younger days in Portsmouth, we used to think it was hilarious to sing (to the tune of "Bless 'em All") Goodbye horse, goodbye horse I was saying goodbye to my horse And as I was saying goodbye to my horse, I was saying goodbye to my horse. Has anyone else come across this jewel of oral tradition? Tradsinger |
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19 Mar 14 - 06:50 PM (#3611001) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert I talk to the trees, that's why they took me away. I'm a little bit peculiar in an onion patch. |
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19 Mar 14 - 06:51 PM (#3611002) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,DTM I've written a new song! (to tune of The Wild Rover) "I've been a procrastinator for manys a year And I ........." Och, I finish it tomorrow. |
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19 Mar 14 - 06:57 PM (#3611003) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert God save our old tom cat feed him on bread and fat God save our cat. Then there is Tom Paxton's "Song for a lost election" which has a great musical introduction building up to a crescendo and the lyric is one word "SHIT!". |
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19 Mar 14 - 08:22 PM (#3611024) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tug the Cox 'I didn't get to sleep last night blues.' |
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19 Mar 14 - 09:46 PM (#3611036) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bugsy Simon & Garfunkel Hello Darknes my old friend I've walked into the wall again CHeers Gugsy |
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19 Mar 14 - 09:58 PM (#3611038) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Joe_F O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, Oh, piss on thee, O Christmas tree. If I had the wings of an angel, Wouldn't I look silly? |
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20 Mar 14 - 06:41 AM (#3611099) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert To the tune of two lovely black eyes... Oh Grannie's red drawers Oh Grannie's red drawers There's a hole in the middle so Granny can piddle Oh Grannie's red drawers |
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20 Mar 14 - 07:24 AM (#3611107) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Mike Yates I'm surprised that the following, recorded in the 1920's by the Carter Brothers and Son (if my memory serves me right), has not been included so far: I had a dog and his name was Rover When he died, he died all over. |
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20 Mar 14 - 09:09 AM (#3611132) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Jon Heslop Tradsinger, There is a rendition of it the Dave Williams album, "You're On Nipper!. Forest Tracks FT2CD 201. The late Dave Williams was one of the local heroes of the Southampton/South Hampshire area in my early days in folk music,late 1960's and that song was often one of his throwaway items if he couldn't think of anything else to do, which was very rarely. My favourite short song has to be a version of "Little Sir Hugh" "Can I have my ball back, mister?" |
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20 Mar 14 - 05:51 PM (#3611290) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: JennieG From the pen of the late prolific Irving Berlin, with slight amendments: "I'll be loving you......sideways.......!" |
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20 Mar 14 - 09:16 PM (#3611339) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Guest Just in case nobody has submitted it. The gallant frigate Amphitrite Sank in Plymouth Sound |
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20 Mar 14 - 09:33 PM (#3611343) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey guest Leprosy as sung by Mike Agranoff to the tune of "Yesterday". Leprosy. All my skin is falling off of me. I'm not half the man I used to be... |
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20 Mar 14 - 10:07 PM (#3611348) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bill D tune Ruben, Ruben ♫Why do Scotsmen leave the country? Why do Scotsmen emigrate? They are following the whiskey That is leaving crate by crate.♫ |
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21 Mar 14 - 03:19 AM (#3611380) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: eftifino Victor Borge: 'I will now play 'The Minute Waltz' and it won't take long.' Kenneth Horne: "In this show, Maria de Los Angeles and Lonnie Donnegan will sing a duet entitled 'Oh, My beloved Father's a Dustman" |
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21 Mar 14 - 05:11 AM (#3611407) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,eldergirl Where have you been all the day, Billy boy, Billy boy? Where have you been all the day, my Billy boy? I've been lurking all the day On the old Mudcat Cafe, And the threads all tickled my fancy, Oh my charming Billy boy. ;-D |
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21 Mar 14 - 05:24 AM (#3611410) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Tradsinger Then there's Frank Ifield's famous song: "I remember you ........ you bastard" |
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21 Mar 14 - 05:39 AM (#3611411) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Bert My Dad used to sing Terranay coray, terranay chah cuchenay coray, pukkeray pah. I don't know what it means or how to spell it. I guess he got it from someone when he worked in The Docks; maybe an Indian. |
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21 Mar 14 - 07:37 AM (#3611456) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: Phil Edwards Not quite the same thing, but Peter Blegvad's song The Only Song goes like this: Imagine a world where this was the only song And against your will You had to sit and listen to it all day long Until it made you ill The second verse goes like this: Imagine a world where this was the only song And against your will You had to sit and listen to it all day long Until it made you ill The third verse... you get the idea. I saw the comedian Rory McGrath once as part of a semi-jokey C&W act, I forget what they were called. They had one song which had one of those rather mumbly "when I wake up with my love beside me" openings... "And I lean to her and kiss her And her kiss is warm and tender And it feels just like the first time And she opens her eyes wide And she says Who... The fuck are you? Who the fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck are you? Who the fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck..." It ended there. |
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21 Mar 14 - 11:31 AM (#3611544) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST Bill D - I think Scotsmen would be following the whisky (not the whiskey)!!! |
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21 Mar 14 - 12:42 PM (#3611568) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST Oh tobaccy pipes, tobaccy pipes, tobaccy pipes & porter; You've often heard a longer song, You'll never hear one shorter. From the singing of Séamus Ennis. Air: Waxie's Dargle |
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21 Mar 14 - 02:29 PM (#3611604) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST,LynnH What a local bus ride can be good for.............. "The king has been a prisoner A prisoner long in Spain - And they can keep him! Hello darkness my old friend - haven't paid the bill again / snow on the cables again! Through bushes and through briars I lately made my way - I'm all scratched up and my clothes are ruined When they poured across the border I was ordered to surrender - I obeyed True Thomas lay on Huntly Bank - Stoned as usual Did you ever hear of brave Earl Brand? -No. Lady Margaret sat in her castle tower, sewing a silken seam She looked out through the high window She saw the fog was thick |
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22 Mar 14 - 08:02 AM (#3611806) Subject: RE: Silly short songs From: GUEST A bar of soap and an old French letter A case of syphilis that won't get better And when I pee it stings These foolish things Remind me of you. |