Is there a Tune Title that amuses you?

Is there a Tune Title that amuses you?

I've just rather belatedly added a comment(alternatve name) to an old Tune thread for the Monk's Jig. I know it as "Did you see my man looking for me?"(Breathnach's Ceol Rince Vol.1)
The title got me thinking what on earth was going on in the naming?Is there a story behind this or was it just repeating a girl's phrase heard by the author.
"McFadden's Handsome Daughter"(O'Neill's-1289) now that's a grand name for a tune.If I told a girl these days she was handsome she wouldn't be impressed.But my late dad from South Armagh-now he would understand.

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by sheepdip

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I've always had to stifle a giggle at the Atholl Highlanderth.

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Will Harmon

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"Micky Chewing Bubblegum". I believe this tune to be Bill Sullivan's.

But Will, Isn't that the tune you submitted to the Mighty Craic????.....

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Agnes Nutter

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Jolly Clamdiggers
Floating Crowbar
Otter's Holt

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Jode

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Wot's so funny about the Otter's Holt? We've all got to live somewhere!

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Ottery

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The Appropriate Dipstick

Fasten the Leg In Her

The Rose in the Heather

An Phis Fliuch

Kitty Got A Clinking

The Duke of Leinster's Wife

My mind comes up to the gutter to feed...

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Hanley

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Can I say a recent one?

Oh well, too late!

Revenge of the Smelly Whistle

I get such bad pictures in my head when I think of it @_@;

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by armandale

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Murphy's Bush
Fanny Flaherty's Ferret
S'you a Minger, Mum?
Fanny Power
Lord of the Dannys (OK, I made that one up)
Th Cat that Kittled in James's Wig (Johnny Doherty)

Jim

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Worldfiddler

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I'd rather be married then Left
O'Sulliven's Farewell to the Scottish Horse
Upstairs in a Tent
Good morning to your nightcap
Who be then you now?

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Urger

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Cat's Rambles in the Child's Saucepan... one has to wander what sort of surprise the cat left

I Buried My Wife and Danced on her Grave... a nice lovely one for Valentine's Day.

Shave the Donkey (alt name for Shoe the Donkey)- I can't imagine what that would look like!

Behind the Bushes in the Garden- I KNOW I'm not the only one who gets ideas from that one!

Put Me In the Big Box (a Cape Breton Wedding reel!) Which big box is it they're referring to?? *snicker*

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by Oranaiche

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Pied came up with one a while back that made me smile-

The Drug Dealer: Over the Water for Charlie

# Posted on September 13th 2004 by JMH

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But these tunes are abstract ditties that bare no relation to their titles.
However, a bird in the hand is worth one in kate's bushG

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by ...

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Suprised no one has said "My Darling is A Sheep" yet. It is an alt. name for "My Darling is Asleep."

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Why Bother?

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Behind The Haystack, aka Squeeze Your Thighs

Father Kelly's Rolling In The Ryegrass

(I've always lived on the edge of town and have always been used to the fields and woods )

Trevor

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Trevor Jennings

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oops! a comma seems to have got left out after "Father Kelly's"
Trevor

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Trevor Jennings

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How about Phil Cunningham's tune that goes something like, "Simon Mackenzie's Welcome to his Twin Sisters from Canada"

or Squire Wood's Lamentation on the Refusal of his Halfpence

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by jdave

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from the Seattle Piper's club- if you're drunk, is it sex that you want for the afore mentioned If you're sick, is it tea that you want

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by I_Fel

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Johnny Cunningham had one called "the Fox in the Microwave" (reference to an urban legend).

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Murph

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There's a tune on one of Alasdair Fraser's CD's called

'There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket 17 times as high as the moon' (WTF!)

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Paul Godfray

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An old nursery rhyme Paul, sung to the tune Lillibulero:

There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket 17 times as high as the moon.
Where she was going I could not but ask it, for in her hand she carried a broom
O whither, O whither? old woman quoth I,
O whither, O whither, O whither so high?
To sweep the cobwebs from the sky, will you come with me? No not I.

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by showaddydadito

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The "hoor" at the hockey match!

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Conán McDonnell

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Gamble and Shite.
Johny Cock Up Your Beaver
PP

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Pied Piper

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The Night We Had The Goats
With Her Lovely Long Hair Flowing Down Her Back And The Colour Of Her Golden Hair Was Black

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by GaryAMartin

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The Night We Had the Goats

The Connacht Heifers

The Night Before Larry Was Stretched

The Ass In the Graveyard

The Hoor in the Nettles

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Hanley

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It depends on whether or not we are talking about the original titles or some form of parody(Is that the best word?) such as "Hector the Heroin addict" which I find hilarious.

There is a danger with amusing titles in that some players are tempted to include them in their repertoire just because of the title. The tune itself might be crap. We've discussed this before, though.

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Johnny Jay

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Bernie Stocks from Belfast told me years ago about a friend of his who played a tune called "My Granny Went To Lourdes And Drowned In The Pool", and got beaten up by a nun for his pains.

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Kenny

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Cat In The Fiddle Case

I've seen that happen.

Trevor

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Trevor Jennings

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The Day We Paid The Rent
McHugh's Other Foot
Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds Dancing On A Fawn Skin

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

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A couple of modern tune titles (I haven't heard the tunes, but they exist):
Bonaparte Crossing His Eyes
The Great Waltz of China

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by GaryAMartin

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A couple of titles that amuse me:
Smash the Windows
Farewell to Whiskey

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by c_ya

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'Johnny With the Queer Thing' is the title O'Neill's gives for the tune usually known nowadays as 'The Sailor on the Rock'.

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by CreadurMawnOrganig

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"Kissing and Drinking"

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by mconners

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"The Red Velvet Jesus"

"Does This Look Infected?"

"That'll Make Ye Blind"

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by darinkelly

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Randal Bays once played a brilliant tune for me once that he said was written by a teenager in the Pacific North West, and it was titled, "Like I Care." I like to imagine that her music pals asked her what she was going to call her new tune. Then when she shrugged her pals warned that when people play her tune -- they won't know what to call it... to which she might have replied, "Like I care."

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Phantom Button

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What's the name of that tune ? - "Ask me Father".
Or, on the sleeve notes of a "Tannahill Weavers" LP, when they asked the Irish band "The Wild Geese": "what's the name of that tune" ? Answer: - "Phuktiphanno", and so it was called on the record - [ it was "The Humours Of Whiskey". ]

# Posted on September 14th 2004 by Kenny

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think someone mentioned it, but i enjoy when sick is it tea you want.

my grandpa said there's a tune with a title that has something to do with "i beat my wife" or something

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by daiv

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It hasn't been written yet, but I've long wanted to write a tune called "The Vindaloo Hornpipe" to play in a set with "The Stool of Repentance".

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by s1m0n

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This isn't a tune title, or Irish, but it's amusing; first line of an English folk song, from my past...

A ploughman dresses fine, he drinks strong beer, ale and wine
And the best of tobacco he do smoke
Pretty girls don't think amiss a ploughman for to kiss
For his breath smells as sweet as a rose.

Someone's having a laugh!

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by petemay

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Actually when I was learning Developmental Psychology at University, (hundreds of years ago) we learned about issues of power and control in kids aged about two, and how they can suffer later in life from over-punitive potty-training. Some stuff about if your Mum was really vicious about it you could end up as an armed robber later in life (Oh, Sigmund, Sigmund...).

I could never look at The Stool of Repentance in music books after that. I even think I've avoided it deliberately, but subconsciously. And now, s1m0n, you've gone and reminded me of it again! Arrrghhhh!

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by petemay

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There is a tune on this site called Up Downey, which sounds very rude indeed to me!

Alison (Downey!)

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by alidowney

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Billy Supped the Bedleg

Nsmed for an incident back in the days when beercans were made of stronger stuff than now; when Bill and his missus stopped over at a place where one leg of the bed was missing, and that corner of the bed was supported on a can of beer. Mrs Bill reports that come the morning, the can was empty.

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by showaddydadito

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My personal favourite has to be "Fanny Power" I'm just amazed the Spice Girls never covered it!

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by duellingbouzoukis

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Alison--"Up Downey" isn't rude.It's what you shout when County Down are playing football.
(Sorry it's my late Dad from South Armagh again!)
Peter
(London)

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by sheepdip

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I'll Touzle Your Kurchy

i'm sure it's quite innocent, but it makes ya wonder...

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by foxpaw

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update, '...your kurchy' is now uploaded...

# Posted on September 15th 2004 by foxpaw

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The Old Bush
Saint Ruth's Bush
tee hee hee..........
oh and of course An Phis Fhliuch.

# Posted on September 16th 2004 by NickPhelan

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The Old Bush?

Aparently that's Wayne Rooney's favourite reel.

# Posted on September 16th 2004 by Conán McDonnell

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I'll Touzle your Kurchy - I will tousle (ruffle, generally mess up) your kerchief (neckerchief, scarf, small shawl, possibly headscarf).

Sorry foxpaw. I was disappointed too.


Another favourite title is "Piss on the Grass".

Can anyone shed any light on:
"Mary Eleanor Cock his hairs on't"

# Posted on September 16th 2004 by showaddydadito

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An phis fliuch
the old bush
behind the haystack
fly up my cock
among many, many others

# Posted on September 19th 2004 by zoukmike

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'drink the rest and hide the bottle' - a slip jig; 'the scutterin duck' not sure if the latter is a real tune. when asked the name of a reel one night, my uncle said this to fob off some egotistical gobshite who was annoyin the musicians...'Lickin' the Bonnet' is a tune I came up with myself. Dunno if the origins of the name can be repeated on this website tho!!

# Posted on September 20th 2004 by anniejryan

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Granny hold the candle while I shave the chicken's lip

# Posted on September 22nd 2004 by Claremac

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as a 'recovering' catholic, i was amused by 'the popes toe'

. . . and a great little (maybe not so little now) box player, gary connerly, named one of his (i think best) tunes :
''wrangle through the dangle-berries'' _class name, class tune

you'll all agree with me when you hear it . . .

# Posted on October 28th 2004 by lisaniska

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This is a funny thread.
Someone was just looking for something like this;
Favorite Tune Names
March 3rd 2009 by Whiddler
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/20834

# Posted on March 3rd 2009 by Ben Steen