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02 Aug 11 - 12:44 PM (#3200233) Subject: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: saulgoldie I know this is increasingly politically incorrect, but...I like to smoke a pipe. Does anyone know of songs that mention smoking a pipe? Thanks. Saul |
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02 Aug 11 - 01:17 PM (#3200252) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Amos My curse is on you, Sweeney For ye have me fairly robbed. You sit there by the fireside Your pipe stuck in yer gob. You sit there by the fireside From the cold daylight 'till dawn; And you never can be bothered To plow the rocks of Bawn. ----------------------------- Old King Cole was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. ------------------------------------------- His friends assembled at the wake And Mrs Finnegan called for lunch. And first they brought in tay and cake Then pipes, tobacco, and whiskey punch! Just off the top o' the brain pan. A |
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02 Aug 11 - 01:23 PM (#3200255) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray It's more a matter of health than political correctness. In fact, I doubt PC comes into it at all. Lots of cracking baccy songs out there though. |
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02 Aug 11 - 01:27 PM (#3200259) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: gnu Old King Cole was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, I guess we all know about Old King Cole. Apologies to George Carlin. |
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02 Aug 11 - 01:38 PM (#3200265) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Max Johnson Topically, The Rocks Of Bawn |
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02 Aug 11 - 01:39 PM (#3200266) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Max Johnson Sorry, missed Amos' post. |
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02 Aug 11 - 01:53 PM (#3200277) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Sugwash Talchauano Girls I bought me a clay pipe They called it a meerschaum It melted like butter on a hot sunny day |
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02 Aug 11 - 02:01 PM (#3200281) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Jim Dixon SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI |
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02 Aug 11 - 02:20 PM (#3200290) Subject: Lyr Add: SERIOUS TOM From: RTim From the Gardiner Manuscripts - Mr. Channon, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Tim Radford ======================= SERIOUS TOM.
Here's Serious Tom sits over his bowl |
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02 Aug 11 - 02:21 PM (#3200292) Subject: Lyr Add: THE HAPPY MAN (for Morris Dance) From: RTim A song and Morris dance from Adderbury Tim Radford =================== THE HAPPY MAN.
How happy's that man |
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02 Aug 11 - 06:00 PM (#3200449) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: GUEST,Bob Coltman From America: Going Down Town to Smoke My Pipe (play party) The Old Clay Pipe, recorded by Roy Harvey |
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02 Aug 11 - 07:18 PM (#3200518) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Stewie From 'Four little johnny cakes' [Oz]: I have a good supply of books and some papers to read Plenty of matches and a good supply of weed I wouldn't be the squatter as beside the fire I sit With a paper in my hand and my old pipe lit --Stewie. |
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02 Aug 11 - 08:00 PM (#3200552) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: GUEST,mg no pipe i'll smoke no horse i'll yoke..star of county down But why start something that is not healthy? mg |
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02 Aug 11 - 08:19 PM (#3200564) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Mark Ross There is a poem Utah Phillips gave me 30 some years ago to put to music called KIT CARSON'S LAST PIPE. I'll see if I can find it. Mark Ross |
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02 Aug 11 - 08:29 PM (#3200568) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Beer John Denver's beautiful song. http://youtu.be/N7P8pPYSXhk adrien |
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02 Aug 11 - 08:33 PM (#3200571) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: pdq Wasn't the WWII era song "Smoke Rings" about pipe smoke. I thinK Merv Griffin sang it but I'm too lazy tonite to do much research. |
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02 Aug 11 - 08:43 PM (#3200582) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Joe_F If I were king, my pipe should be premier. The skies of time and chance are seldom clear, We would inform them all with bland blue weather. Delight alone would need to shed a tear, For dream and deed should war no more together. Art should aspire, yet ugliness be dear; Beauty, the shaft, should speed with with for feather; And love, sweet love, should never fall to sere, If I were king. But politics should find no harbour near; The Philistine should fear to slip his tether; Tobacco should be duty free, and beer; In fact, in room of this, the age of leather, An age of gold all radiant should appear, If I were king. -- W. E. Henley (1877) I don't know if it has a tune. |
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02 Aug 11 - 08:45 PM (#3200585) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Big Al Whittle Star of the County Down No pipe I'll smoke or pale I'll yoke Til my plough turns a rust coloured brown |
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02 Aug 11 - 09:12 PM (#3200606) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Big Al Whittle sorry guestmg - didn't see that spmehow found this site which has a few puipe smoking songs. I feel i know some, but need to think http://fujipub.com/ooops/quotes.html#whenmypipeburnsbright |
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03 Aug 11 - 12:51 AM (#3200693) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: MGM·Lion I remember reviewing in Folk Review back in the 1970s[?] a Morris Weekend in the Forest Of Dean, Gloucestershire, where my wife came from and her mother then still lived and had a close friend who was a morris musician, and being particularly struck by a solo dance by a young man called the "Bacca-Pipes Jig" ~~ as I recollect a sort of sword-dance [of the sort where that means laying crossed swords on the ground and stepping among them without disturbing their arrangement or cutting one's ankle, rather than the clashing, 'lock'-ending Norhumbrian sort], but using churchwarden pipes rather than swords. Not sure if it had a tune particular to it or could be done to any of the standard morris tunes. ~Michael~ |
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03 Aug 11 - 01:27 AM (#3200704) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: mg with his corn cob pipe and his button nose and two eyes made out of coal |
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03 Aug 11 - 04:53 AM (#3200768) Subject: Lyr Add: TOBACCO IS AN INDIAN WEED From: GUEST,SteveT Tobacco is an Indian Weed Tobacco is an Indian weed, Grows green at morn, is cut down at eve; It shows our decay; We fade as hay. Think on this,-when you smoke tobacco. The pipe that is so lily-white, Wherein so many take delight, Gone with a touch; Man's life is such, Think on this,- when you smoke tobacco. The pipe that is so foul within, Shews how the soul is stained with sin; It doth require The purging fire. Think on this,-when you smoke tobacco. The ashes that are left behind, Do serve to put us all in mind, That unto dust, Return we must. Think on this,-when you smoke tobacco. The smoke that doth so high ascend, Shows that our life must have an end; The vapours' gone, Man's life is done. Think on this,-when you smoke tobacco. From "Songs of the West S. Baring-Gould" |
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03 Aug 11 - 05:06 AM (#3200772) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Big Al Whittle They're all pretty rubbish - write a new one! They say I'm a whacko Cos i like tobacco But I think that's tripe Cos I love my pipe When i wave my pipe I look pugnacious When I light my pipe I look sagacious So I take every opportuney To light my little shagarooney! When I stroke down the shag with one finger The rest of my fingers, round the bowl And I thoughtfully light a lucifer I'm as happy as a mole! |
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03 Aug 11 - 05:22 AM (#3200778) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: MGM·Lion A new one, maybe Al ~~ but not new in expression; when was a match last called 'a lucifer', would you reckon? ~M~ |
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03 Aug 11 - 05:53 AM (#3200790) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: Big Al Whittle just now in this song! |
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03 Aug 11 - 06:40 AM (#3200801) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: MGM·Lion How striking! |
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03 Aug 11 - 10:09 AM (#3200902) Subject: Lyr Add: DANNY BOY (parody) From: Nigel Parsons Mine own from 2007: DANNY BOY (Smoking Ban, for Summer 2007) (new words Nigel Parsons, Original words Fred E Wetherley) Oh Danny boy, my pipe is just a token, No more we see the fag, or the cigar For far away our Parliament has spoken. From this time on, "No smoking in the bar" They'll seek us out, wherever we are smoking. Within the pub there'll be no place to hide. For everywhere, their noses they'll be poking. So kindly watch my beer while I just pop outside! Someday, maybe, when Parliament's more mellow. And pubs install some more effective fans The ceilings will no longer be all yellow. And smoking men won't need to heed these bans And on that day we'll join the other drinkers Once more be free of all 'Health Lobby' hype The 'Nanny State' will throw away their blinkers And we can drink enjoying fag, cigar, or pipe. . Until that day, the view against us hardens. . We'll go outside, to smoke & drink our ale. . We'll frequent pubs possessed of beer gardens . And drink dark mild because we are 'beyond the pale' Feel free to re-write words to 'personalise' it to any locality bringing in a smoking ban! |
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03 Aug 11 - 11:39 AM (#3200956) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: GUEST,Jack Campin A search on http://abcnotation.com provides several hits for a tune called "Bacca Pipes", presumably for the dance MtheGM saw. |
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03 Aug 11 - 02:15 PM (#3201090) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: MGM·Lion Thanks, Jack ~~ & I found several on youtube, eg, uploaded Feb 2007, "Charm City Rappers, Takoma Park Mini-Fest, Folklore Society of Greater Washington" ~~ 6 dancers working 2x3 ~~ all with several dancers, not just danced as solos like the one I saw all those years ago. There is indeed a similar tune for all of them, which is the one I heard then IIRC ~~ a variant of Greensleeves. The pipes used in the above example were not real clay ones, as a commenter pointed out adversely, but just metal tubes ~~ indeed one gets kicked at one point but doesn't break. The dancers in this one are not in morris gear, but in blue v-neck pullovers, white shirts and blue trousers, but there are morris-men standing around, some dancing on the fringe, in what is obviously a gym of some kind. The url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wloL_Fj8LIo ~M~ |
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03 Aug 11 - 02:40 PM (#3201113) Subject: RE: Songs about Pipe Smoking From: MGM·Lion ... and a fine two-man version of Bacca Pipes by Bridgetown Morris performed in the 2007 Portland Revels did indeed use two real clay churchwardens which survived the leaping & capering over them, and were picked up intact at the end by the two dancers who went off with them in their mouths pretending to draw on them ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfH-EQ46AI&NR=1 |