On A Lighter Note

A Few Funny, Off-beat or Weird Songs

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50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Am & Em)

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon from "Still Crazy After All These Years" (1975)

Ain't We Got Fun (C & F)

Ain't We Got Fun by Van and Schenck (1921)

Ain't We Got Fun by Peggy Lee

Ain't We Got Fun by Doris Day

All My Exes Live in Texas (G)

All My Ex's Live in Texas by George Strait

Apples And Bananas (Traditional North American Children's Song) (C & G)

Apples and Bananas by Raffi

Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler) (Carl Cicchetti & Donald Claps, 1958) (C)

Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler) (C & G)

Beep Beep by The Playmates (1958)

Verse     Start  Duration including chorus / Approx. BPM.

Verse 1:  0:00   65 seconds / 68

Verse 2:  1:06   35 seconds / 108

Verse 3:  1:41   18 seconds / 240

Verse 4:  1:59   15 seconds / 400+ (?)

Verse 5:  2:14   15 seconds / 400+ (?) (no chorus but retard last 2 lines)

End:      2:29

Big Rock Candy Mountain (C)

Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock (1928, 1939)

Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives (1949)

Big Rock Candy Mountain by Pete Seeger (1957)

Big Rock Candy Mountain featuring the original 1928 Harry McClintock recording from "O Brother, Where Are Thou?" (2000)

Blood on the Coal (Harry Shearer, Michael McKean & Christopher Guest, 2003) from "A Mighty Wind" (Dm)
This song is performed by "The Folkmen," a fictitious American folk music trio, conceived and performed by actors-comedians-musicians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. The Folkmen were patterned after The Kingston Trio. A Mighty Wind, Wikipedia; The Folksmen, Wikipedia.

Blood On The Coal by The Folksmen from "A Mighty Wind" (2003) (soundtrack)

Blood On The Coal by The Folksmen from "A Mighty Wind" (2003) (video)

Breakfast In America - Wide (Dm)

Breakfast In America by Supertramp

Cecilia (G)

Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel

Cheeseburger in Paradise (F)

Cheeseburger in Paradise (F C & G)

Cheeseburger in Paradise by Jimmy Buffett

Chug a Lug (G)

Chug a Lug by Roger Miller

Cosmic Cowboy (C)

Cosmic Cowboy by Michael Murphey

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road (Loudon Wainwright III) (C & G)

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road by Loudon Wainwright III (1972)

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (Lonnie Donegan,1959) (Original)
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (Alt)

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor by Lonnie Donegan (1959)

Drunken Sailor (The Irish Rovers) (Am & Em)

Drunken Sailor by The Irish Rovers

Fare Away (G)

Fare Away by The New Main Street Singers from "A Mighty Wind"

Fins (F)

Fins by Jimmy Buffett

Fish Song (Jimmie Fadden, 1971) (C & G)

Fish Song by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from their 1971 album "Stars And Stripes Forever"

Flowers on the Wall (C)

Flowers On The Wall (C & G)

Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers

Friends In Low Places (C)

Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (C & G)

Honey You Don't Know My Mind (C)

Honey You Don't Know My Mind by Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys (1960)

Hotel California (Am)

Hotel California (Am & Em)

Hotel California by The Eagles (1976)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones (Chris Yacich & Lorraine Milne, 1936) - Version 1 (C)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones - Version 2 (A & D)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by The Hoosier Hot Shots (1936)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by George Formby accompanied by his ukulele

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by George Elrick (1936)

I'm My Own Grandpa (C)

I'm My Own Grandpa by Willie Nelson

I Wanna Be Sedated (C & F)

I Wanna Be Sedated by the Ramones (1978)

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (Paul Vance & Lee Pockriss, 1960) (C & G)

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellowy Polka Dot Bikini by Brian Hyland (1960)

Istanbul (Am)

Istanbul by They Might Be Giants

I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (D)

I've Got A Tiger By The Tail by Buck Owens and His Buckaroos

Jug Band Music (C)

Jug Band Music by the Lovin' Spoonful (1967)

Jump In The Line (F)

Jump In The Line by Harry Belefonte

Junk Food Junkie (C)

Junk Food Junkie by Larry Groce (1976)

Keep Your Hands to Yourself  (C)

Keep Your Hands to Yourself by the Georgia Satellites

Lady Godiva (C & G)

Laurie (C)

Laurie (Strange Things Happen in this World) by Milton Addington recorded by by Dickey Lee (1965)

Li'l Red Riding Hood (Am)

Li'l Red Riding Hood (Am & Em)

Li'l Red Riding Hood by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs (1966)

Lola (C & G)

Lola by the Kinks

Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers) (Am, Dm & Em)
Love Potion No. 9 - The Searchers (Am, Dm & Em)

Love Potion No. 9 by The Clovers (The hit single version that omits the "Love Potion Number 10" chorus) from the album "The Best of The Clovers" (1959)

Love Potion No. 9 - The Searchers (1964)
written in 1959 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Lumberjack  (G & C)

Lumberjack by Monte Python

Lydia the Tattooed Lady (Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, 1939) (C)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by Groucho Marx from "At The Circus" (1939)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by Kermit the Frog, "The Muppet Show" (1977)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by The Philadelphia Ukulele Orchestra (2010)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by The New Tradition barbershop quartet, winning the 1985 International Barbershop Competition (from the 1994 Show of Champions).

Mairzy Doats (C & G)

Mairzy Doats by The Merry Macs (with Introduction, a #1 in March 1944)

Mairzy Doats by Al Trace and the Silly Symphonists (1st recording, with Introduction)

Mairzy Doats by the Pied Pipers (1944)

Mairzy Doats The Innocence (1967)

Makin Whoopee (C)

Makin' Whoopee (C & G)

Makin' Whoopee by Eddie Cantar (1928)

Makin Whoopee by Rudy Vallee (1929)

Makin' Whoopee by Frank Sinatra (1956)

Makin' Whoopee by Ella Fitzgerald (1958)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Lennon–McCartney, 1968-1969) (C & G)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles from their album "Abbey Road" (1969)

May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose (C & G)

May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose by "Little" Jimmy Dickens

McDonald's Kitchen (C)

McDonald's Kitchen

MTA (C)
MTA (C & G)

MTA by The Kingston Trio (1959)

MTA by The Kingston Trio (Early live performance)

Nashville Cats (C)

Nashville Cats (C & G)

Nashville Cats

Never Did No Wanderin' (Dm)

Never Did No Wanderin' by The Folkmen from "A Mighty Wind"

Nine Miles from Gundagai (C)

Nine Miles from Gundagai by Bill Berry

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (G)

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (C & G)

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles

Old Joe's Place (C)

Old Joe's Place by The Folkmen from "A Mighty Wind"

On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone (Shel Silverstein, ca. 1972) (C, F, G, NN)

The Cover of "Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (1972)

Panama Red (C, F & G)

Panama Red by The New Riders of the Purple Sage from the 1973 LP "The Adventures of Panama Red," which was the best selling bluegrass album of all time  for many years, until the 2000 soundtrack album for "O Brother, Where Art Thou" surpassed its sales.

Panama Red by The New Riders of the Purple Sage (1975 live performance)

Pencil Thin Mustache (C, F & G)

Pencil Thin Moustache by Jimmy Buffett from his album "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" (1974; recorded in 1973)

Potato's in The Paddywagon (C, D & G)

Potato's In The Paddywagon by the New Main Street Singers

Purple People Eater (C & G)

Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley (1958)

Raised On Robbery (C)

Raised on Robbery by Joni Mitchell

Rapid Roy (C & G)

Rapid Roy by Jim Croce from "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," his third studio album, released in April of 1972.

Rock The Casbah (Dm)

Rock the Casbah by The Clash

Science Fiction Double Feature (C)

Science Fiction/Double Feature was the opening song to the original 1973 musical stage production, "The Rocky Horror Show" and the 1975 film with musical arrangements by Richard Hartley.

Shaving Cream (Benny Bell, 1946) (C)

Shaving Cream by Paul Wynn (1946) (first recording)

Shaving Cream by Benny Bell

Shaving Cream duet with "Weird Al" Yankovic and Dr. Demento

Shaving Cream by Dr. Demento from "The Very Best of Dr. Demento"

Snoopy vs The Red Baron (C & G)

"Curse you, Red Baron"

Snoopy vs The Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen

Snoopy vs The Red Baron, the classic dogfight from the 1966 animated movie "It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." (no music but good sound effects ;)

Squeeze Box (C)

Squeeze Box by The Who

Strum Along (a parody of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off") (Dm)

Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

Summer Nights (C)

Summer Nights by John Travolta , Olivia Newton-John, & Cast from the motion picture "Grease" and the album "Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture"

Summertime Blues (C)

Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran (1958)

Summertime Blues by Alan Jackson

Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer (1968)

Summertime Blues by The Who (Live, the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967). It was performed during the 1967 US tour, from which the first known Who recordings of the song were made, including a June 1967 date at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Sweet Violets

The Court Of King Caractacus (C)

The Court Of King Caractacus by Rolf Harris

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena (C & G)

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan and Dean

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan and Dean (1965 color video)

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan and Dean (1979 live performance)

The Mermaid (C & G)

The Mermaid by Shel Silverstein

The Sadder But Wiser Girl (D)

The Sadder-but-Wiser Girl for Me by Robert Preston from the 1957 Broadway soundtrack

The Sadder-but-Wiser Girl for Me by Robert Preston (1962 movie clip)

The Song That Never Ends (Norman Martin, 1988) (C & F)

The Song That Never Ends (Sheri Lewis and Puppets)

The Thing (G)

The Thing by Phil Harris

Third Rate Romance (G & C)

Third Rate Romance by Sammy Kershaw

Tie Me Kangaroo Down (C)

Tie Me Kangaroo Down by Rolf Harris

Volcano (C) (Jimmy Buffett) & Kilauea (a parody by Keith Fukumitsu) (C)

Volcano, Jimmy Buffett

(What Did) Delaware (Irving Gordon, 1959) (C)

Delaware by Perry Como with The Ray Charles Singers and Mitchell Ayres & his Orchestra (1959)

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs Murphys Chowder (George L. Geifer, 1898) First recorded by Edward M. Favor in 1901. (C, F & G)

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder by Bing Crosby (1945)

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder by Julie Andrews (1962)

Witch Doctor (C & G)

Witch Doctor by by David Seville (stage name of Ross Bagdasarian Sr., 1958)

YMCA (Jacques Morali, Victor Willis) (C & G)

YMCA by the Village People (1978)

You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd (Roger Miller) (C & G)

You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd by Roger Miller

You Never Even Call Me By My Name (C)

You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allen Cole