![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunBeing at least by upbringing and impending marriage (if not temperament) a Roman Catholic from one of the areas of the USA heaviest settled by people of that faith, I feel entitled to wish one and all a great big bon jour de Saint Patric on these ides of March.
Being by taste and temperament far more inclined towards music of a more demented sort than the traditional Irish (and pseudo-Irish; cf. "Danny Boy") folk tunes commonly heard on this day (though a good rendition of "The Town I Loved So Well" can still bring a tear or two to my eye, especially the one by Jim McCann that is the opening theme of a 1984 TV-movie you really ought to check out, Children in the Crossfire), I feel inclined to play some and invite you all to suggest your favorite funny song by or about the people of Eire. And let's get the most obvious candidate (in my crowd, anyhow) out of the way right off the bat:
Tom Lehrer's "The Irish Ballad"—with lyrics onscreen to let everyone sing along!
Aside from that one, my own choice for #1 funny song for this particular occasion is by the late, lamented Da Vinci's Notebook (of which Paul & Storm were at one time about half) is called "Another Irish Drinking Song," an MP3 of which you can purchase here. It's off of their final CD, Brontosaurus, which you can also get there in either digital or plastic-disc formats. (Personally, though, I treasure the recording of a shorter but even funnier live version I have from one of DVN's numerous appearances on radio's The Bob & Tom Show, back in the day.) A strong contender for second place would be this bit of divine sickness from Georgia's own Emerald Rose, "Danny in the Jar." And for third, I'd have to go with "Traditional Irish Folk Song," by Irish-American actor/comic Denis Leary (yes, the same guy on FX's Rescue Me show) off his gut-bustingly funny 1993 debut CD, No Cure for Cancer. (It also comes in DVD and book form, though with the latter you don't get his expressions and raspy voice to enhance it.)
What's your favorite song to laugh along with for the wearing of the green? Post here with titles and artists' names at least, links to audio, video or lyrics if you can.
Being by taste and temperament far more inclined towards music of a more demented sort than the traditional Irish (and pseudo-Irish; cf. "Danny Boy") folk tunes commonly heard on this day (though a good rendition of "The Town I Loved So Well" can still bring a tear or two to my eye, especially the one by Jim McCann that is the opening theme of a 1984 TV-movie you really ought to check out, Children in the Crossfire), I feel inclined to play some and invite you all to suggest your favorite funny song by or about the people of Eire. And let's get the most obvious candidate (in my crowd, anyhow) out of the way right off the bat:
Tom Lehrer's "The Irish Ballad"—with lyrics onscreen to let everyone sing along!
Aside from that one, my own choice for #1 funny song for this particular occasion is by the late, lamented Da Vinci's Notebook (of which Paul & Storm were at one time about half) is called "Another Irish Drinking Song," an MP3 of which you can purchase here. It's off of their final CD, Brontosaurus, which you can also get there in either digital or plastic-disc formats. (Personally, though, I treasure the recording of a shorter but even funnier live version I have from one of DVN's numerous appearances on radio's The Bob & Tom Show, back in the day.) A strong contender for second place would be this bit of divine sickness from Georgia's own Emerald Rose, "Danny in the Jar." And for third, I'd have to go with "Traditional Irish Folk Song," by Irish-American actor/comic Denis Leary (yes, the same guy on FX's Rescue Me show) off his gut-bustingly funny 1993 debut CD, No Cure for Cancer. (It also comes in DVD and book form, though with the latter you don't get his expressions and raspy voice to enhance it.)
What's your favorite song to laugh along with for the wearing of the green? Post here with titles and artists' names at least, links to audio, video or lyrics if you can.
