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#74900 - Mon Feb 25 2002 12:22 AM Funny Titles
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Looking through a book I bought back in '82, called "The rock lists album", I have come across a listing of some of the funniest song titles I have seen. Incidentally, they are all C&W songs

1. Drop kick me Jesus (through the goalposts of life). by Bobby Bare
2. Drinkin' to forget what I'm drinkin' to forget. by David Allen Coe
3. They ain't makin Jews like Jesus anymore. by Kinky Friedman
4. I've never been to bed with an ugly woman (but I've sure woken up with a few). by Bobby Bare.
5. You can't get milk from a cow named Ben. by Fiddlin' John Carson & Moonshine Kate.
6. Don't the girls get prettier at closing time. by Mickey Gilley.
7. May the bird of paradise fly up your nose. by Little Jimmy Dickens.
8. My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. by Jimmy Buffett.
9. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. by Dr. Rock.
10. All My Exes Live in Texas (That's Why I Hang My Hat In Tennessee). by George strait.
11. Did I Shave My Legs For This?. by Deanna Carter.
12. For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You For Seventy Mental Reasons). by Red Ingle.
13. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed. by Kinky Friedman.
14. Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth ('Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye). by Ray Stevens.
15. How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?. by Dan Hicks.
16. I Can't Get Over You 'Til You Get Out From Under Him. by Mark Rayburn.
17. I Gave Her The Ring, She Gave Me The Finger. by Crow Carroll.
18. I Hate Every Bone In Your Body (But Mine). by Darryl Rhoades.
19. My Baby Ran Off With A Coal Miner (& All I Got Was The Shaft). by Dick Feller.
20. Never Hit Your Grandma With A Shovel. by Dick Unteed.

That will do for now. Stay tuned as there are lots more.
Hope you enjoy.

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#74901 - Mon Feb 25 2002 07:18 AM Re: Funny Titles
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After looking over that list a tune by Willie Nelson leaps to mind,

I went to bed at 2 with a 10, but woke up at 10 with a 2.

corus

Never went to bed with any ugly women, But Lord I've woke up with a few.

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#74902 - Mon Feb 25 2002 09:26 PM Re: Funny Titles
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"I got home at the wrong five o'clock" always makes me laugh . Some Australian bloke did it, can't remember who though.

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#74903 - Mon Feb 25 2002 11:32 PM Re: Funny Titles
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"I'm my own grandpa"
WE used to sing this at camp. Does anyone recognize it?
It was really funny, the person singing became his own grandfather!

"Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?"

"Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro?"

"Lookin' for love in all the wrong places"

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#74904 - Mon Feb 25 2002 11:35 PM Re: Funny Titles
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Plastic Jesus

"I don't care if it rains or freezes long as I got my plastic Jesus, ridin' on the dashboard of my car...through all trials and tribulations, we shall travel every nation, me and plastic Jesus will go far."

"I don't care if it's dark or scary, long as I got magnetic Mary..., but I fear she'll have to go, her magnet stops my radio, and if we have a wreck she'll cause a scar."

I can play this one on the guitar, one of five songs in my rep!

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#74905 - Tue Feb 26 2002 09:48 PM Re: Funny Titles
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BRUYERE!
I can play it, TOO! Courtesy of my first husband!
He was remarkable for a few things...just not enough of them!

The other song I remember THIS way...

I AM (emphasis on "AM") my own grandpa!

Think I heard Grandpa Jones play it as an opener to Hank Williams Jr. at Massey Hall in Toronto when my mother MADE me go to the live concert when I was 13 or so...really embarassing at the time!

Your other songs are probably "500 Miles", "Blowing In the Wind", "Puff the Magic Dragon", maybe "Summertime" and well, I'll give you some leeway!


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#74906 - Wed Feb 27 2002 05:53 AM Re: Funny Titles
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not very trendy, but:

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious !!!!!

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#74907 - Thu Feb 28 2002 12:19 AM Re: Funny Titles
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I don't know if these are "funny" as much as "odd", but here are some Kinks songs, anyway:

Jack The Idiot Dunce
I'm a Hog For You Baby
Announcements from Preservation Act II
Do You Wish To Be A Man?
Welcome To Sleazy Town
Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues

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#74908 - Wed Feb 27 2002 01:20 PM Re: Funny Titles
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Excuse me for not remembering artists, but I have some for ya:

1. "We're Going to Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home"
2. "The One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People-Eater"
3. "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?"

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#74909 - Wed Feb 27 2002 01:47 PM Re: Funny Titles
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"The Happy Organ" always did it for me!

And wasn't there..."Pop Pop Fizz Fizz"...in record form?

...and the Popcorn Song....sounded like early synthesizer stuff.....


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#74910 - Wed Feb 27 2002 07:39 PM Re: Funny Titles
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Ah yes, Popcorn.....by a group of people called Hot Butter.

Who can remember that all time classic "Mouldy Old Dough" By Leiutenant Pigeon?

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#74911 - Thu Feb 28 2002 09:45 AM Re: Funny Titles
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Hate to admit it Sparky but I remember both of those!!!

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#74912 - Thu Feb 28 2002 09:57 AM Re: Funny Titles
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Suppose I'm good for the knackeryard, I've got the blasted popcorn song in my head now!
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#74913 - Thu Feb 28 2002 01:34 PM Re: Funny Titles
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Gawd! I had to go back to the "top" to see what the original question was!

OK...guess this will do...I heard it today...and hated it as much as ever...

Tiptoe Through the Tulips - Tiny Tim

How about...

Honky, Honky, the Christmas Goose? (by a famous Canadian Hockey player!..geez..........)


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#74914 - Thu Feb 28 2002 03:29 PM Re: Funny Titles
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I know...I KNOW........

ok....

I Love Onions!

Remember that one, Bruyere?

How about "Tennessee Birdwalk?"

Gotta fly!


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#74915 - Thu Feb 28 2002 06:41 PM Re: Funny Titles
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I'm surprised nobody has come up with an all time classic that you would hear schoolkids singing in the early 70's.

It was by St.Cecilia and was entitled Leap up and down (wave your knickers in the air)

Anyone remember that one?

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#74916 - Fri Mar 01 2002 03:42 AM Re: Funny Titles
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Anyone remember "Dead Skunk in the middle of the road"
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#74917 - Fri Mar 01 2002 04:15 AM Re: Funny Titles
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Not only do I remember 'Dead Skunk...', now I can smell the **** thing. Comes from growing up in a rural area I guess!! And now I too have the Popcorn song going through my head!
Funny song titles, hmm...how about going back many years to 'Mairzy Doats'?

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#74918 - Fri Mar 01 2002 06:17 AM Re: Funny Titles
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Mairzy doats and oatsie oats..now I've got it in my head, my aunt used to sing that.

How about, "My mamma told me if I was goodie, that she would buy me a rubber dollie, my sister told her, I kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me a rubber dollie."
Hmmm, not quite the same as in the old days!

"How ya gonna keep em down on the farm, after they've seen Pareeee?"

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#74919 - Sun Mar 10 2002 07:48 AM Re: Funny Titles
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No, Bruyere, it's Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats. Also there's the Hut-Sut Song. The 40's were big on nonsense songs. tjoeb};>
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#74920 - Sun Mar 10 2002 05:01 PM Re: Funny Titles
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Surprised no Dylan in this thread, "Rainy Day Women No 12 and 35" springs to mind.
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