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Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs

01 Dec 02 - 05:54 PM (#838472)
Subject: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: GUEST,The Crispy Druid

I'm a bard, and I've got a competition coming up, the theme of which is 'Silly Love Songs'.

I am NOT looking for the lyrics to the Paul McCartney song.

I AM looking for the lyrics to any love song with a comical, or silly, theme or feeling. I would prefer authentic folk songs, if possible, but anyhting that does not mention modern items/ideas, I would most appreciate.

Thank you for you time...

May Flights of Dragons gaurd Thy Dreaming.
~The Crispy Druid's Blessing

01 Dec 02 - 05:55 PM (#838473)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: GUEST,The Crispy Druid

Oops. If you wish to contact me, please feel free to do so at crispy_druid_2000@yahoo.com

01 Dec 02 - 07:05 PM (#838512)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: SINSULL

"I Got A Rose Between My Toes From Walking From The Hothouse To You"

01 Dec 02 - 07:13 PM (#838517)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: SINSULL

"Frank Mills" from "Hair".
My favorite line?
I love him
But it embarrasses me
To walk down the street with him..."

01 Dec 02 - 09:03 PM (#838581)
Subject: Lyr Add: SIDE BY SIDE (parody)
From: Bernard

Erm...
We got married on Friday
I really thought it was my day
Till we went to our room
The new bride and groom
Side by side

We got ready for bed, then
And I nearlt dropped dead when
Her leg and her hair
She laid on a chair
Side by side!

Her glass eye was followed
Closely by her teeth
When she took off her Playtex Longline
There was nothing underneath

I was really downhearted
From most of my wife I'd been parted
So I slept on the chair
Cos there was more of her there!
Side by side.

I first heard this (tune 'Side by side', in case you hadn't guessed!) in the 60s whilst at college, but I forgot the middle eight, so that bit I made up myself. Can't claim the rest of it, more's the pity!!

01 Dec 02 - 10:14 PM (#838603)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Amos

The Very Unfortunate Man, on the same theme as the foregoing, is a country tune from the Fifties or thereabouts detailing the misadventures of a lawyer who did not get a wearranty deed for his wedding deed.

The Frozen Logger qualifies, for sure.

Then there's the later country comic number "I've Got Tears In My Ears...".

These are all twentieth century, though.

A

01 Dec 02 - 11:08 PM (#838627)
Subject: Lyr Add: MOTHER NATURE'S MIRACLES
From: GUEST,Phil Nuytten SOCAN/BMI

MOTHER NATURE'S MIRACLES

V1:
Now eyeball up the people,
As you're walkin' 'round and 'round,
An' check out the distance,
From their rear-ends to the ground,
They're all quite a bit different,
As you can clearly see,
Yet all of their legs are EX'ACTLY,
The length they need to be . . .

C1: It's one of mother nature's miracles,
As you can plainly see,
Mother nature's miracles,
At least . . it seems like a miracle to me

V2: We got a lot of stuff in common,
You'd probably agree,
Ears and nose and fingers and toes,
Look the same on you or me,
We got belly-buttons an' nipples,
An' I think that's jes' fine,
But, I wonder how-come yer stuff, girl,
Looks more INNER'ESTIN' than mine

C2: It's one of mother nature's miracles -etc.,

B1: I say this stuff to make you smile,
But at least a part of it is true,
The part about the miracle,
'Cause that's how I feel about you . .

V3: They say that there is jes' one guy,
That's meant for jes' one girl,
But, MAN!, think of all the people,
In this great, big, ol' world,
So whaddya think the odds are,
That you'd jes' happen to be,
Born an' raised, an' jes' the right age,
In the EXACT same place as me!

C4: It's one of Mother Nature's Miracles,
As you can plainly see,
Mother Nature's Miracles,
At least . .it seems like a miracle to me

(Rap) So, I'm jes' sittin' here thinkin',
That I'm lucky as can be,
'Cause ev'ry time we get our stuff together,
It's a MIRACLE to me!

Outro:
Mother Nature's Miracles,
It's a miracle, you see . . (fade)

04 Dec 02 - 10:21 AM (#840393)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Jim Dixon

Surely we can do better than this!

Homer and Jethro performed many parodies of popular songs, some of which were love songs. See the thread Homer and Jethro.

04 Dec 02 - 07:52 PM (#840914)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: GUEST,The Fantum

Right silly love songs
To keep this in bounds I will print a few lines from each song and if any take your fancy let me know and I will post the thing up properly.

BROTHER GORILLA
George Brassant
Translation Jake Thackray

Through the bars of a large enclosure
The village ladies intently stared
Where a gorilla with massive composure
Were impassively combing his hair
They were unashamedly interested
Eyeing devoutly a certain spot
But at my mother's especial request
I'll refrain from telling you what

Brother gorilla

The song goes on about the animal escaping and having the choice of raping a judge or a grannie.

THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC
Les Barker

On a cold rainy night on a Liverpool quayside
In the days before the Great War
The world was in shock at the loss of Titanic
So proud had they been days before
Relatives gathered for news of their loved ones
And to read through the lists of the dead
When into the throng came a sad eyed old polar bear
And to the clerk at the counter he said,

"Have you got any news of the iceberg?"

It goes on about his wife and family coming from Greenland. A song of love torn apart.

RODNEY AND BRENDA
Pillaged from a duo called Therapy

Rodney was a decent sort of bloke
Not the sort to swear or belch
Or kick his teddy bear
And he never stole the punch line to your jokes
His manners had been perfect all his life
Not one to concern you with the details of his hernia
He never picked his peas up with his knife
He never got obnoxious when he drank
And in fact, his only failing was his feet
They really stank

Brenda was the girl he most admired

She had bad breath and they hid their secrets until their wedding night when true love was finally put to the test.
Well, the lovers get as far as the bedroom in this song.

BORED OF THE DANCE
The Kipper Family
This will be in the Forum somewhere

Oh how they danced on the night they were wed
She danced he drank and then they went to bed
There's no more story to be told
For she was too hot
And he was out cold

This is the culmination of a song about courting at a dance. True love requited.

THE TRAINS OF WATERLOO
Les Barker

As I was out walking one midsummer evening
Along the brick lanes of suburbia's sprawl
I met with a young girl giving sad lamentations
And it seemed as if all Basingstoke heard her sad call

Her lover is a commuter using Waterloo station and he fights the daily campaign down the platform with his brolley.
He ends up dead so its unrequited love this time.

Try THUTHIE, another love song I posted a few weeks back outlining the perils of lisping lovers.

There's loads more of this er stuff

Enough for now I'm tired but if you want more say so and I will carry on again tomorrow.

Regards,
The Fantum

Excess line breaks removed. --JoeClone, 4-Dec-02.

04 Dec 02 - 08:38 PM (#840972)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Deckman

My sweethearts the mule in the mines,

I drive her without any lines,

On the bumper I sit, and I chew and I spit,

All over my sweerthearts behind!

CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

04 Dec 02 - 10:36 PM (#841039)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Kaleea

Does anyone remember all the verses to the following partial chorus of a song which I believe was on a John Denver record? Who wrote it, & who originally sang it?

"Ya dun stomped on mah heart,
an' yew mashed that sucker flat.
Yew jist sorta---stomped on mah aorta! . . ."
      & I cant remember the rest!!

04 Dec 02 - 11:24 PM (#841066)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Nathan in Texas

"You Done Stomped on my Heart" was written by Mason Williams. You have most of what I remember. The other lines I remember are:

You started going out with guys
I felt us drift apart.
And every step you took,
Was a stomp upon my heart.

05 Dec 02 - 02:59 PM (#841665)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Schantieman

I hold your hand in mine, dear, I press it to my lips
I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips
My joy would be complete, dear, if only you were here,
But still I keep your hand as a precious souvenir.

etc.

by the great Tom Lehrer

Steve

05 Dec 02 - 08:12 PM (#841922)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: Cluin

She was bred in old Kentucky,

But she's just a crumb out here...

05 Dec 02 - 09:21 PM (#841973)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: open mike

rosalie sorrels sings a cute one
if you love me, if you love, love, love me
plant a rose for me
if you think you're gonna love me for a long long time
plant an apple tree
i for get the rest but it goes something like
whenever you think of me
you can smell a rose and
take a bite of an apples...
some thing like that...
I can look for the tape,
or maybe it is already in the digitrad...

05 Dec 02 - 09:24 PM (#841975)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Silly Love Songs
From: open mike

yes it is there...
IF YOU LOVE ME
(Rosalie Sorrels)

If you love me
If you love, love, love me
Plant a rose for me
And if you think you're going to love me
For a long, long time
Plant an apple tree

The sun will shine
The wind will blow
The rain will fall and the tree will grow
And whether you comes, or whether you goes
I'll have an apple, and I'll have a rose

Lovely to bite and nice to my nose
And every little nibble will be
A sweet reminder of the time you loved me
And planted a rose for me
And an apple tree

From the collection of Andrew Draskoy
Copyright Rosalie Sorrels
@love
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05 Dec 02 - 10:20 PM (#841996)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE GOT TEARS IN MY EARS (FROM LYIN'...
From: toadfrog

I'VE GOT TEARS IN MY EARS
(FROM LYIN' ON MY BACK IN MY BED WHILE I CRY OVER YOU)
(Harold Barlow)

I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back
In my bed while I cry over you
And the tears in my ears, they're off the beaten track
Since you said "It's goodbye, we are through"
So if I should get water on the brain
You will know you're the one who is to blame
I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back
In my bed while I cry over you.

I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back
In my bed while I cry over you
I've been cryin' these tears and soakin' in my sack
Since the day I found you were untrue
And if I don't get up pretty soon
I'll turn into a sleepy lagoon
I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back
In my bed while I cry over you.

I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back
In my bed while I cry over you
It's been so many years, my sacroiliac
Feels as though it's been soaked through and through
Oh, you lied when you said we'd take the plunge
Now I know how it feels to be a sponge
I've got tears in my ears from lyin' on my back
In my bed while I cry over you.