Song ideas needed

[Garp]

Had a good set last night at the pub, but they've decided to make a few changes to the format of the music evenings, and they're all being 'themed'. Next months..

Humorous songs.

Uhh...
Okay.

"Cows with Guns" it is then. Maybe "The Galaxy Song" by Monty Python?

Any other ideas?

[Matblack]

In the Brownies by Billy Conolly
Cats in the Kettle by Weird Al

MB

[Belmit]

'Tribute' by Tenacious D!

Edit: Or 'Wonderboy'. Both are great.

[Daz]

Bloodhound Gang - Three point one four

Perhaps more vulgar than humorous. Damn funny though, the lyrics are fantastic:

No age just aint a gauge I like my girls like my cheese
Preferably for me fat-free american singles only
I want my next chick anorexic, the winner is the thinner
Wont have to take her skinny ass out to a fancy dinner

[Creature]

Star-Trekking across the Universe. only going forward cos we can't find reverse :pNoooo, you git. I've had that in my head for ages and just got rid of it.:(

[BBx]

Star-Trekking across the Universe. only going forward cos we can't find reverse :p

HA haaha! I have that on a Now album! ;D

... maybe I shouldn't have admitted that :embarassed:

BB x

[Flibster]

HA haaha! I have that on a Now album! ;D

... maybe I shouldn't have admitted that :embarassed:

BB x

Nothing wrong with that at all.

I've got Arnie and the Terminators - I'll Be Back! :D

Funny songs though...

Any country song is laughable...but not in the right way
Pee Wee Herman - Shouldn't touch this
Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Tom Lehrer - The Elements Song
Tom Lehrer - New Math
Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango ;)
Aaaah hell - anything form Tom Lehrer, or Flanders and Swann would fit. :D

Simon/~Flibster

[Garp]

Tom Lehrer! PERFECT :)

*goes off with a few ideas in mind*

[Treefrog]

Damn you Flibster - I was just thinking of Tom Lehrer! :p
And I've got quite a bit of Flanders and Swann too.

[Admiral Huddy]

Garp, what guitar web site do you use to get your music from.. I need something really to get my teeth into.. Something maybe for noobs like me :)

[Garp]

Garp, what guitar web site do you use to get your music from.. I need something really to get my teeth into.. Something maybe for noobs like me :)


Hmm..

Ultimate-guitar.net for the most part, but general searches in google along the lines of:

"song name" +tab
"song name" +chords

usually brings up stuff.

[semi-pro waster]

Bloodhound Gang - Three point one four

Or A Lap Dance Is So Much Better If The Stripper Is Crying by the same folks but again possibly less in the way of humour.

Monty Python - The Philosophers Drinking Song is good although short.

Billy Connelly - The Evil Scotsman.

I'm not sure if either of these count either but Jerry Reed - Convoy and Amos Moses both make me smile.

[Daz]

Or A Lap Dance Is So Much Better If The Stripper Is Crying by the same folks but again possibly less in the way of humour
Wouldn't work without an old Casio keyboard ;D

[Rich_L]

I like The Wurzels, makes me laugh :p (being from Cornwall and all)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsw/wurzels.html

[Garp]

Tom Lehrer - The Elements Song


I must be nuts.

I actually did this song last night, guitar in hand. In front of any other crowd I wouldn't have done it, but there I'm in front of 'pub friends', most of them are there each month for it and I've been playing there a couple of years now.

I haven't been that nervous before a performance in as long as I can remember. I've been singing in various choirs, in various odd languages like Welsh, Latin, Spanish, French, German, Albanian and so on, but never ever had anything so lyrically challenging to sing clearly with proper enunciation.

I made it 90% of the way through before I fell over on the line
"Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium", joked with the audience whilst still keeping the pace going on guitar, before launching back from the line "There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium".

I did suggest that they could join in with me when I got to the halfway mark, if they knew the words :)

Was a good laugh last night, although a couple of the guys still managed to be moody bastards, and ended up having to buy drinks for certain members of the audience :D

[Flibster]

Could have bewen worse... I could have suggested Lobachevsky. ;)

Most people can do half of The Elements. Sadly, I can do all of it, along with Lobachevsky - which is much harder as it's all Russian names.

Sounds like it was a fun night though.

Simon/~Flibster

[Treefrog]

... And Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name!

Anyone else look up all the places in the atlas?