Really, Really, Really Dumb Songs…….

[The Whiskey Priest]

It would seem that the Forties and the Fifties hold the prize for songs with goofy lyrics. Example you say…..

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

Of course there was this little dittie….

Every time they hear that oom-pa-pa
Everybody feels so tra-la-la
They want to throw their cares away
They all go lah-de-ah-de-ay

That Roll Out the Barrel, very popular during WWII and would certainly make me want to attack someone…..

However, the 60s, 70s and beyond provide goofiness..

So as time marched on…we found that song writers could outdo themselves in writing goofy songs… Remember Lonnie Donnegan’s

Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost over night? When your mother says don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite? Can you catch it on your tonsils, and ya' heave it left and right? Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost over night?"

Or…..

Roger Miller’s Dang Me

"They say roses and red, violets are purple; sugar's sweet and so is maple surple. I'm the seventh out of seven sons; my pappy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun."

I could go on…however, how about you tell us what is your favorite goofy lyric song?

[tuvor]

1. The Cars had a lot of nutty lyrics.

My favorite is A Dream Away

Liquid whispers dragonfly
Charleston booties on painted toes
Chicken encounters fill your bowls
Drop the knot Ivory soul

No, no drugs went into the making of *that* song.

[Lady Effingbroke]

2. More Cars nuttiness...

"I'm In Touch With Your World"

"I been lying on your feathers,
You keep talkin' about the weather.
I'm a psilocybin pony,
You're a flick fandango phoney."
:crazy:

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Roll out the barrel!

We'll have a barrel of fun...
Roll out the barrel...
We've got the booze on the run.

Now why did I remember that from memory? :shrug: ACK!

[amber dog democrat]

4. Marsie Doats and Dosie Oats & little lambs eat ivy

a kid'l eativey too, wouldnt you ??
I never saw the point of that one.

[warrens]

5. Nothing beats Horse With No Name

Although that stupid fucking Counting Crows song about "the smell of hospitals in winter." Since they are all highly air conditioned, they smell the same ALL THE FUCKING TIME YOU IDIOT

God, I hate them. Right up there with the Hooties. And Dave Matthews. Totally worthless music.

[ChoralScholar]

6. I like big butts and I cannot lie

you other brothers can't deny
when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist
and a round thing in your face you get sprung....


mmmhmmm... Caution Literary Genius at Work...........

[-..__...]

7. "You got to pretend your face is a Maserati "...

Just God damn awful link for the unenlightened.
To bad, I like the guitar riff though.

[CO Liberal]

8. "Put de Lime in de Coconut"

I have no idea what Harry Nillson was smoking when he wrote that.

[Calliope]

9. Macarthur Park is melting in the dark

all the sweet green icing flowing down
someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it because it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again OH NOOOOO!!!