Funny bluegrass lyrics

[hattio]

I don't know if it's "true" bluegrass, but a guy here does a song called I won't go huntin with you Jake. He's told me about a hundred times who its by, but I can never remember.

I'll second Jimmy Martin. Skip Hop and Wobble is a good amusing one. Hit Parade of love is funny too.


In the somewhat bluegrass category;
Henry--New Riders of the Purple Sage
I ain't brok but I'm badly bent--Old and in the Way
I know there must be a dozen other ones, but I can't think of them.

[Jean Fugal]

I won't go huntin with you Jake. He's told me about a hundred times who its by, but I can never remember

Jimmy Dean Words and music by Stuart Hamblen JPF

[Michael Lewis]

Just about anything by Doo Doo Wah. Several albums of pretty funny stuff, and well worth looking upl

[allenhopkins]

Lester Flatt, Backin' To Birmingham
Stanley Brothers. How Far To Little Rock?
Charles River Valley Boys, You Better Pray To the Lord When You See Those Flying Saucers
Wretched Refuse String Band, Thumbelina (parody)
Dillards, Buckin' Mule
Bottle Hill, No One Knows What Marvin Knows, The Old Neon Cross

Sure to be more, but those are what pop up in memory...

[f5loar]

Hard to forget the Lost & Found's "Left Over Biscuts"
Jimmy Martin's "Poor Little Bull Frog" and "Boss of This Here House"and "Dog Bite Your Hide"and "I Can't Quit Cigarettes" and "I Pulled A Boo-Boo" and "Goin' Ape"
The Dillard's "The Biggest Whatever" and "Dooley"
And forget the Tenn. group but the Tenn. hit song
There is 5 pounds of opposum in my headlights tonight"
The Osborne Bros. "Gal You got A Job To Do" and "The Kind of Woman I Got"
The Country Gentlemen(with Duffy)"Big Bad Bruce"

[tbyron]

[QUOTE]Nothing is better than Smokey Greene's "I just don't look good naked anymore".

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Mike

I agree with Mike I love Smokey Greene. #How about Pickin' WIth Them Little Green Men.

[tbyron]

I agree with Mike. I love I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore. And how about another Smokey Greene classic...Pickin' With Them Little Green Men.

[tbyron]

Sorry I am new to this and did not realize the first one posted.

[BoneDigger]

My favorite? #Here's some Grandpa Jones (and he had some good ones!)...

"My wife died a Friday Night
Saturday she was buried
Sunday was my courtin day, and
Monday I got married!"

That's just good stuff there!

Todd

[mrkrgr]

I like the following lyrics for "Salty Dog"

I like hominy I like grits
I like girls with great big eye's
Honey let me be your Salty Dog

[tree]

The first verse of Rabbit in a Log just kills me. #A rhyme scheme that pairs "briar" with "hair" - what's not to love?

[mikeyes]

"Pa Fell Asleep and the Hogs Ate Him" #

Anything by Chicken Hot Rod or the Geezinslaw Brothers (OK, maybe not, but at least there is mandolin content.)

[CollingsPicker]

How bout Tim O' Brien's "If I can't Live without you How come I ain't Dead" HAHA

David Watson

[sgarrity]

Tim O'Brien's "Runnin' Out of Memory For You" on his cornbread Nation recording. Not necessarialy hardcore bluegrass, but darn funny stuff!

[f5loar]

I thought it was:
I like Ham, I like Grits
And I like girls with great big feet
Honey let me be your Salty Dog.

[John Flynn]

Uncle Cuckleburr’s Champion Possum Carvers is group that defies genres to some extent. They are part old-time, part bluegrass, part folk and part just crazy. They have a great tune called, "Peaches Blew Up and Killed the Chickens." They claim it is based on a true story.

[bienkow1]

Stanley Bros.

"Tall Skinny Lanky Sarah Jane"

[Philip Halcomb]

Drink up and Go Home

[PaulD]

How about some that were intended to be "sweet" but have nefarious overtones: On And On is one of my all-time favorite Bluegrass stalker tunes. It's the story of a guy whose girlfriend was concerned enough to move out of town without a forwarding address. The guy's friends all recognize why she left ("they think I'm to blame"), but he vows not to sleep until he finds her and can be by her side. He's not threatening to mess her up, he's just a harmless stalker (or is he???).

pd

[Tom C]

Groove Grass Boyz:
Del's version of Bluegrass Girls
"...She sings like Lester and looks like Earl?!"


Ol' Bill"

[WJF]

"Over there stands a blind man - So blind that he can't see - He ain't complaining - Why should you or me?" Jimmy Martin. A truly classic line I think ...

[Patrick Sylvest]

Tom T. Hall's 'Ballad of Forty Dollars'

[acousticcowboy]

I have thoroughly enjoyed mandolin cafe for months. New to mandolin, I finally joined. You guys are a wealth of knowledge and humor! I loved this thread! I will find some more to share if I can!

[takwas]

She talks in her sleep but she always gets my name right.
Del McCoury

[Marc Ferry]

I know this thread is old, but I thought I should add two tunes: "Putting on the Dog", a song where a guy has a wife who desperately wants a fur coat, and he hits a dog on the highway and turns it into a fur coat for her, and "Homegrown Tomatoes".