Overexposure: Songs beaten to death
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Many of those already mentioned I agree with. Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun - inspired!
We had a "tune switch evening" at a Singers night I was at a few years back where we managed to sing "God save the Queen" to the tune of "Pop goes the Weasel" and vice versa. It wasn't easy.
In pagan circles, Greensleeves has been repeated too often. It's not just harpers, Red! It's a nice easy piece on guitar, which means you hear it all the time.
Jack, you have it all wrong. Taps is fine. Reveille I can do without.
We had a "tune switch evening" at a Singers night I was at a few years back where we managed to sing "God save the Queen" to the tune of "Pop goes the Weasel" and vice versa. It wasn't easy.
In pagan circles, Greensleeves has been repeated too often. It's not just harpers, Red! It's a nice easy piece on guitar, which means you hear it all the time.
Jack, you have it all wrong. Taps is fine. Reveille I can do without.
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Looks like someone did a parody of "No Man's Land."
Author unknown, but thanks whoever! I'll sing this one next time!
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics ... atire.html
Author unknown, but thanks whoever! I'll sing this one next time!
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics ... atire.html
Well you go to the bar of a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, everything seems all right
Til some drunken punter flops down by your side
And asks you to sing about Willie McBride
Well you say you don't know it, but this will not do
For now he's determined to sing it to you.
Arm round your shoulder, for now he's your friend
And he's going to sing the expletive thing til the end
"Yes... yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land."
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Hi CofaidhCofaidh wrote:Looks like someone did a parody of "No Man's Land."
Author unknown, but thanks whoever! I'll sing this one next time!
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics ... atire.html
Well you go to the bar of a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, everything seems all right
Til some drunken punter flops down by your side
And asks you to sing about Willie McBride
Well you say you don't know it, but this will not do
For now he's determined to sing it to you.
Arm round your shoulder, for now he's your friend
And he's going to sing the expletive thing til the end
The parody was written by Crawford Howard, a Belfast songwriter.
David
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Yeah...I still can't stand that one because it was so overplayed.Dale wrote:Katrina and the Waves: Walking on Sunshine.
Stand By Me is right up there as well for me...and for more recent stuff, Photograph by Nickelback was hugely overplayed when it was popular. I literally had it stuck in my head for a week. I even dreamed it was stuck in my head.
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Another one! Red, Red Wine by UB40. I swear, they must have re-released that blasted thing like 100 times. Can't they do any other songs? That has got to be one of the MOST overplayed songs EVER in the history of overplayed songs. If I never hear it again, it will be too soon.
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Just for the Crawford Howard fans, here's the full lyrics of his "No Man's Land" parody:
NO MAN'S LAND - Crawford Howard
Have you heard the old song about Willie Mc Bride?
If I hear it again, it'll turn me insides!
For its sung in the Springtime and its sung in the Fall
- And mostly by people who can't sing at all!
You go out for a drink on a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, and things are alright
Until some drunken bowsey sits down by your side
And he asks for the one about "Willie Mc Bride"!
Well you say you don't know it but this will not do
For now he's determined to sing it to you
So he spills half your drink and starts off in a key
That was never invented on land or on sea
And as time goes by, sure the whole thing gets worse
For you soon realise that he knows every verse!
With his arm round your shoulder - 'cos now he's your friend
He's going to sing the damn thing to the end!
You go out to the Gents for a quarter of an hour
And you watch the TV in the old public bar
And then you come back thinking that he will tire
But he's still going on about gas and barbed wire!
And ten minutes later you're all in a trance
For he's up to his oxters in the Green Fields of France
The crowd are all quiet, you wont hear a peep
Does he not realise they've all gone to sleep?
Ah Willie Mc Bride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you'd have saved if you'd come back alive
And got a wee job or signed "on the brew"
We'd not have to listen to songs about you!
But still I don't know but I'm glad that you're dead
With the green fields of France piled on top of your head
For the trouble you caused since the day that you died
- Shooting's too good for you, Willie Mc Bride!
djm
NO MAN'S LAND - Crawford Howard
Have you heard the old song about Willie Mc Bride?
If I hear it again, it'll turn me insides!
For its sung in the Springtime and its sung in the Fall
- And mostly by people who can't sing at all!
You go out for a drink on a Saturday night
For a pint and a song, and things are alright
Until some drunken bowsey sits down by your side
And he asks for the one about "Willie Mc Bride"!
Well you say you don't know it but this will not do
For now he's determined to sing it to you
So he spills half your drink and starts off in a key
That was never invented on land or on sea
And as time goes by, sure the whole thing gets worse
For you soon realise that he knows every verse!
With his arm round your shoulder - 'cos now he's your friend
He's going to sing the damn thing to the end!
You go out to the Gents for a quarter of an hour
And you watch the TV in the old public bar
And then you come back thinking that he will tire
But he's still going on about gas and barbed wire!
And ten minutes later you're all in a trance
For he's up to his oxters in the Green Fields of France
The crowd are all quiet, you wont hear a peep
Does he not realise they've all gone to sleep?
Ah Willie Mc Bride, why the hell did you die?
The trouble you'd have saved if you'd come back alive
And got a wee job or signed "on the brew"
We'd not have to listen to songs about you!
But still I don't know but I'm glad that you're dead
With the green fields of France piled on top of your head
For the trouble you caused since the day that you died
- Shooting's too good for you, Willie Mc Bride!
djm
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