Odd tune names revisited

Easily_Deluded_Fool · Post by **Easily_Deluded_Fool** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:55 am

E=FB didst scribe
"The level of sexual knowledge in Ireland was unbelieveably low only a generation ago, and probably was even lower in times past."

My dads step-mother was Irish, and used to refer to sex as "a-cup-o-tea-and itself".

But...
I can't believe that nobody has mentioned
"Not safe with a razor" by L.E.McCullough
as per Lunasa book and Merry Sisters Of Fate.

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:28 am

I'm rather fond of Spaghetti Panic, by Andy Cutting.

Chris

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:32 am

I just found a tune on JC's called "The Sexual Life of a Camel". I've got no clue where it came from.
Chris

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 12:59 pm

There' a tune in th Skye Collection that had me scratching my head over its title: "Lalla Since the Queen's Come". Somehow makes me envision grown men in chiffon...
---N, unphobic

Ro3b · Post by **Ro3b** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 11:43 am

On 2002-12-21 10:32, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
I just found a tune on JC's called "The Sexual Life of a Camel". I've got no clue where it came from.
Chris

Hm. That rings a distant bell.

"Oh, the sexual life of the camel
Isn't what everyone thinks,
One night in a moment of passion
He tried to bugger the sphinx.

Now the sphinx's posterior region
Is clogged with the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel
And the sphinx's inscrutable smile."

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 1:47 pm

On 2002-12-20 09:44, Brian Lee wrote:
My list so far:

The Drab Plateau
The Dreary Plains of Toil
The Low Hills of Mediocrity
Farewell to Your Dreams
...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Leon Redbone sung most of those?...

John

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 6:35 pm

--I've got a couple for ya here (love to toy with tune titles!):
-The Pain of Boils-

-The Wet Blanket-

and my current fave:

-The Earl's Stool-

--N, smartaleck

[ This Message was edited by: Nanohedron on 2003-01-02 19:37 ]

fluter_d · Post by **fluter_d** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 8:13 pm

We always got a kick out of 'The Water Dog's Hole'... the literal translation of 'Poll an Madra Uisce', or 'The Otter's Holt'!

pixyy · Post by **pixyy** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 3:37 am

On 2002-12-21 10:32, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
I just found a tune on JC's called "The Sexual Life of a Camel". I've got no clue where it came from.
Chris

Now Chris, I don't reckon you found that using 'Camel' as a search key, now did you

Jens_Hoppe · Post by **Jens_Hoppe** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 3:52 am

As far as I remember, the Bulmer & Sharpley tune collection has a tune called

The Cow that Ate the Blanket #2

Now, the title in itself is pretty silly, but I think the best part is the need for a "#2" behind it.

Jens

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 9:46 am

A few possible new tune names from last weekend's session:

The Dusty Miller (On the Windowsill)

The Foggy Glasses

The Humours of Chowder

Birdshot for You, Mutt!

TW

Blarney Pilgrim · Post by **Blarney Pilgrim** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 10:27 am

A CD I received for Christmas has the tune Three Young Ladies Drinking Whiskey Before Breakfast. Steve

MikeClem · Post by **MikeClem** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 10:54 am

We do one called "Lemming's March To The Sea".

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Jan 03, 2003 8:28 pm

On 2002-12-23 12:43, Ro3b wrote:
On 2002-12-21 10:32, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
I just found a tune on JC's called "The Sexual Life of a Camel". I've got no clue where it came from.
Chris
Hm. That rings a distant bell.

"Oh, the sexual life of the camel
Isn't what everyone thinks,
One night in a moment of passion
He tried to bugger the sphinx.

Now the sphinx's posterior region
Is clogged with the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel
And the sphinx's inscrutable smile."

I was just goign to post about this, I was playing a thoroughly enjoyable session tonight in a small country pub on the back arse of nowhere with fiddler Eamonn McGivney and concertinaplayer Kitty Hayes. A half hour ago before I went off into the frozen blackness that is West Clare at two in the morning today, Eamonn sang 'the Sexual life of the Camel'. The words are by Noel Coward. The version I got was slightly less polite in it's description of the posterior region.

[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2003-01-03 21:37 ]

msheldon · Post by **msheldon** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 2:03 am

Some time ago at session, one of the group just could not remember the name of a particular tune, so he made up one.

"Katy get the door while I shave the chicken's lips"

I've heard it get used several times when someone can't remember a tune-name.

Of course, some of the best ones are the mis-heard ones. "Mickey chewing bubblegum" somehow got heard by another session member as "Naked chewing bubblegum".