So I got turned on the Little Benny this week. I was wondering what other kinda messed up songs people like. I do It's a Shame to Whup Your Wife on Sunday, They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain, Ham Beats All Meat and stuff like that.
What'a yall got?
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On a seasonal note, "Death Might Be Your Santa Claus". Found it on a collection of early gospel music. I forget who performed it. Sort of half-sung, half-preached. It's aimed at people who "ain't livin' right" which, obviously, couldn't include anyone here.
"he's little and he wants you to love him...."
that is so sad
How about - "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas" - John Denver
What The ....
Yeah, I think you hit the nail right on the head there. How funny and sad a title all at the same time.Originally Posted by (ourgang @ Dec. 19 2007, 16:37)
Jason
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway."
Newell A5 #37, Glenn F5 #66, Eastman 615 #537,
Of course there are the traditional ones Like 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor'.
I love the version by Louis Jordan. [recorded 12-20-38]
Lyrics are relatively tame , but they seriously swing the tune.
Ken Burns 'Jazz' film, has Louie Jordan doing 'Calidonia'
for the cameras.
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
"Honey, you're just a salt lick in my mind."
Bill
IM(NS)HO
Mama's Not Dead, She's Just Playin' Possum
Five Pounds of Possum (In My Headlights Tonight)
If My Nose Was Runnin' Money (I'd Blow it All on You)
Don Smith # # #
I've always wanted to find (and play) "There's no Romance in your Soul" by the Hoosier Hotshots.
I don't think Little Bennie is in bad taste at all. It's strong medicine for sure, but when Carter sings it, the pathos and true depth of feeling for the poor little kid confronting an abusive drunk father is so real (and sad). Better to have this out in the open. Rhonda has one called Little Angels about child sexual abuse -- I don't care for the song as such but I don't think it's in bad taste.
Bad taste?
Not if you know how to cook possum.
When you say songs in bad taste (ain't no might to it!) I can't help but think of David Allen Coe's X-Rated Album of songs he wrote when he was in prison. I bought a cassette tape of if when he was playing some local Honky Tonk around here years ago not know what was on it.
There are several very funny (albeit raunchy) songs on there and several that are SO racially charged that they would make what Don Imus said sound like a compliment!
One of the songs I learned off that cassette is "The Three Biggest Lies" #but I haven't sang it in years because the only place you could sing that song and get away with it would be in a bar full of all male bikers (the female bikers would kick my...)
How about "Poor White Folks"? I really like the tune, but can't bring myself to call it in a jam because of the title. I hear it referred to a lot as "PWF".
Steven E. Cantrell
Campanella A
When performing at weddings, we like to play "Will You Be Loving Another Man."
. . . . .
But during a completely different performance, a tragi-comic situation occurred. We were on stage for a Sunday gospel set at a Florida BG festival in the 1970s. There were a lot of stoned people there (no surprise). Some of them were swimming in a small lake, and one of them decided to dive in. I guess he didn't know that the water was only six inches deep, and he broke his neck.
The festival promoter told us to keep playing. We didn't have a set list for a situation like this, so we just played whatever came into our heads. A med-evac helicopter came and took the patient aboard. As the 'copter lifted off again, Murphy thought of a song and started singing it without thinking-- it was "I'll Fly Away."
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How about, "He drinks tequila and she talks dirty in Spanish"
Greg in AZ
Gee...I wish I didn't have such fat fingers!
Without a doubt.....Knoxville Girl......bluegrass violence at its most extreme. I wont play or listen to the song.
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
The ugly girl song. It's the one that the chorus says Always marry an ugly girl, thats the only kind. She'll never ever leave you but if she does you won't mind. And another one is Hallelujah i'm a bum.
Richard Mauney
"Plastic Jesus" I do it at most gigs and people love it but the one guy in the band (and his wife...) think that it's in bad taste. I grew up in an Italian family and my Grandfather's old Buick always had at least Jesus, Mary, and Saint Christopher stuck on the dashboard so the song is alwways nostalgic to me.
Johnsmusic
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer?
2015 Chevy Silverado
2 bottles of Knob Creek bourbon
1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
56 Gibson Hoss, I think "Pretty Polly" is fairly gruesome as well. "Tom Dooley" was hung (pardon) and there is "Banks Of The Ohio", "Blackbirds And The Crows" and my favorite "Perfume, Powder and Lead". There are several good killin' songs out there.
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road. I play it every Friday at my local circle. All the old folks know the lyrics now, and a friend took the song back to his local jam in Maine to spread the sickness. Frank
FJ Russell
Es mejor morir de pie que vivir de rodillas. E. Zapata
When I get married it won't be for riches, I'll marry a big fat gal who won't wear my britches.
Tom T. Hall - Dolly Parton's T%&(s
My favorite though is You Ain't Talkin to ME by Charlie Poole
His wife says
let's jump in the lake and end this trial and strife.
He relies, when the lake goes dry its time to die, you ain't talkin to me
A traveler stops in at a home for some dinner and a bed so the hostess asks him to chop some wood for his stay
his reply - your food tastes good but I can't chop wood, no you ain't talking to me.
Bad mother, you ain't talkin to me!
Go Long, Mule
Alot of songs by David Allan Coe are seriously in bad taste.
What about the old classic...
"Git yer tongue outta my mouth (I'm kissin' you good-bye)"
Frank Solivan II http://franksolivanii.com
Eddie Jefferson's "Benny's From Heaven" could be fun to play. #For really bad taste I don't think you could do much better (worse?) than Francis Zappa's "Magdelena". #The polka/bad sci-fi sountrack/rock verse to chorus transitions would work nicely in a stringband, but those lyrics are over the line!
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