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Oh I got lots of hits with my Google search too. Just not terribly pertinent. Still, I suppose I should investigate ...

Pertinent hits is what that search returns

Marquee on the Lawn (Marquis of Lorne)
Fanny Power. Our guitar man calls it Fanny Batter, for no reason other than he once forgot its real name, so that's what we call it now.

Banish Misfortune=Banish this torture

Wind that Shakes the Barley = The chick that rides my Harley

There's a Celtic band in Japan, The Butter Dogs (don't google!), that has a tune called Funny Power on their CD.

Too tempting, I did

Mr.Gumby wrote:Hardly a pun in that one is there? Next someone will probably post Cock up your beaver for the umpteenth time. (or 'My Darling's a Sheep' for that matter, some of these really are getting old).

Its all new to me, and a laugh riot they are.

buckets of more and more (bucks of oranmore)

The awkward *****r (the clumsy lover)

"Tell her, Ian!"

... and, almost along the same sort of lines, from the world of jazz, "What's this thing called, love?"

Get Off My Land = Give Me Your Hand
The Cosh = The Kesh.
The second tune is played so frequently at my session, you feel as though you have been beaten around the head with it sometimes.

2T00TS wrote:Get Off My Land = Give Me Your Hand
The Cosh = The Kesh.
The second tune is played so frequently at my session, you feel as though you have been beaten around the head with it sometimes.

You need to get yourself to somewhere relatively Kesh-free, I would say.

I can think of one for The Athol Highlanders...

Screw the Donkey

NicoMoreno wrote:Looking up "irish cow stripper" gets lots of hits.

Presumably not to be confused with "irish cow tipper"

Bogman said "Jig of Slugs" - I've heard more often "Jar of Slugs."

"The Waltz of Liz Carroll" can puzzle or amuse people when it turns out to be a jig.

I'm too new here and far too bashful to mention the other name for Banish Misfortune!