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24 May 03 - 10:08 AM (#958636) Subject: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl^^^ From: Rapparee Folklore because we sang it in Boy Scouts. Could be lyrics add. You decide, Joes. (I haven't seen it anywhere before.) I WANT A BEER I want a beer just like the beer that pickled dear old dad It was a beer and the only beer that daddy ever had A good olf-fashioned beer with lots of foam Took twenty men to carry daddy home! Oh I want a beer Just like the beer That pickled dear old dad.^^^ |
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24 May 03 - 10:32 AM (#958647) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: Snuffy Popular at Cardiff Students Union ca 1970-74, it was the last song in a "sequence" of Moonlight Bay/The Bells are Ringing/Aby My Boy/I Want a Beer, followed by Roll over, Mabel, Let's have it on the other side Just Like the dogs do, Let's have it on the other side It's better in Blackpool Let's have it on the other side A 69-er Let's have it on the other side etc, etc Let's have it on the other side Good evening, Friends. I suppose Welsh beer was weaker, because we only needed SIX men to carry Daddy home. WassaiL! V |
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24 May 03 - 10:57 AM (#958658) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: Rapparee I first learned it abour 1957 or 1958, when I was 12 or 13 years old. It came from two brothers who had moved (briefly) to Illinois from Kansas or somewhere. |
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24 May 03 - 12:36 PM (#958722) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: GUEST Repaire - good try - and keep trying - however, it is already in the DT at:
http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2878
Sincerely, |
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24 May 03 - 12:43 PM (#958725) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: GUEST SNUFFY - that appears to be a DT first - well done!!!
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24 May 03 - 04:06 PM (#958794) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: Rapparee Shucks, I wonder how I missed it in the DT...I checked first. Oh well. |
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24 May 03 - 05:22 PM (#958814) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: toadfrog Hey, that's not the only parody! Does anyone remember all the words to the one that begins: I want a war just like the war that made my daddy rich!^^^ |
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24 May 03 - 05:28 PM (#958817) Subject: RE: Folklore: Parody: I want a girl From: toadfrog Yes, yes, I should have looked first! Dick Greenhaus posted it! This parody, and many, many more, are posted on THIS THREAD, including the unique, the inimitable, I want a ghoul, just like the ghoul, that buried dear old dad. No end to the wonders of MUDCAT! |