When I think of Bluegrass songs, all I hear are the songs that have the same old lonesome and mournful words that tear your heart out. Carter and Bill could write them the best.
What about funny lyrics in BG songs??? I can think of only a few....
Better Times a-coming.
I Cant Tell the Boys from the Girls.
Backing to Birmingham
Let hear some others........
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
How about "Pearl, Pearl, Pearl"? Lester and Earl
What The ....
"Who's leaving who", off Jim Lauderdale's "Bluegrass" is still somewhat lonesome and mournful in nature, but lyrically really funny at the same time.
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,
We can't forget some of Jimmy Martin's songs, but most of those can be in the "corny to ridiculous" category. Such gems as "Dog Bite Your Hide". My favorite line from that song is "when you roll your eyes like a dying calf" BMAOL.
Tom Mullen
Tulsa, OK
Nothing is better than Smokey Greene's "I just don't look good naked anymore".
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Stay all night
that line about the mule eating ice cream and getting sick so they laid him on a beam absolutely slays me!
I laid the tracks, never rode the train.
Second vote for Jimmy. I love the way he sings the corniest lyrics with the utmost amount of testicular fortitude.
"Hi de diddley ho de hum/Hi de diddle won't you kiss-a-me some"
Lost on the trails of The Deep North
John Hartford:
Granny Wontcha Smoke Some
2 Hits and the Joint Turned Brown
Don't Leave Your Records in the Sun
Good Old Electric Washing Machine
Golden Globe Awards
-Treblemaker
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Jimmy is kind of like a musical Ned Flanders. Hi-diddly-deedly-doodly, neighbor.
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,
Sleepy eyed John Jim and Jesse and the ugly girl song I mentioned this morning on another thread.
Richard Mauney
"When your phone don't ring, it'll be me."
- James King
2015 Chevy Silverado
2 bottles of Knob Creek bourbon
1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
No Homer and Jethro?
Although their humor was of a different era.
sugar coated love
leftover me
Rod in Kansas
I always thought this line from Larry Sparks was pretty funny:
"The last suit you wear
Won't need no pockets..."
It's not that life is short, but that we waste so much of it.
--Seneca (paraphrased)
I second the ugly girl song.
Don't know who wrote but I heard it once:
"I wanna kiss her b-u-u-u-u-t she won't let me,
I wanna whisper sweet nothins' in her ®ear"
How about "Two Fat Men In A Hudson Hornet"? Or even "Salty Dog"
"Grab your partner, swing her 'round, 'til the hole in her head makes a whistlin' sound."
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken
Best Friend
The best friend I ever had just ran off with my wife
and he'll stay my best long as he don't bring her back
Mike Cross tune
Homer and Jethro's version of the Tennessee Waltz.
mikeguy
Or even 20 Naked Pentecostcals In A Pontiac!Originally Posted by (Willie @ Jan. 06 2008, 19:20)
2015 Chevy Silverado
2 bottles of Knob Creek bourbon
1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
I just ran across a song on Grisman's Bluegrass Reunion CD "I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail"
I always liked the Ol' Bluegrass Rap classic by Lester Flatt "Drinkin' That Mash,Talkin' That Trash"
Puffdaddy and Five cent ain't got a thing on ol Lester jpf
Jean
Pair of 96 Flatiron Fs
I'm My Own Grandpa
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
This may be more old-time than bluegrass, but close enough! My favorite funny lyric is the second verse of "Greasy Coat."
I don't spit and I don't chew
And I don't go with girls that do.
Now those are words to live by!
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