Entertainment For Lively Minds
Namechecking the whole family
Posted by Simon Moffatt on 7 August 2009 - 11:01pm.
Just listening to Beth Rowley from one of the old Word discs singing "Nobody's fault but mine".
Three verses that mention "mother", "father" and "brother" which is fine, but there are lots of songs that do the whole set of father/mother/sister/brother (usually in that order for rhyming purposes.
My question is: who's gone that bit further?
Madness did pretty well with Embarrassment: you get aunt,uncle, dad and mum
Who, though, has shoehorned the *most* of their family into a song.
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Another Irish Drinking Song...
...by DaVinci's Notebook features a wide range of extended family. All dead though.
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Nice one
I reckon that takes the prize. Lovely bit of Indian accent in the middle too.
I'm never sure...
...whether it is supposed to be an Indian accent or is just a very bad attempt at an Irish one. I do think that inclusion of a 'great grand uncle' sets the bar though.
No further, but...
This doesn't expand the thread either,
but another fine Gillian Welch song
The Helen Wheels Hitmakers
Let 'Em In:
Sister Suzie, Brother John,
Brother Michael, Auntie Jin
More Madness.....
Father wears his Sunday best.....
Quite brilliant!
And I suppose we'd better have this:
Which I don't think is half as bad as some do: