Please note:
- All these street organ arrangements for my modifed Topsy 3 are home-made. Contact me if you want a custom arrangement - whether a modification of a number below or something new - for your own street organ, musical box, barrel piano, or whatever.
- The MP3s below use Virtual Studio Technology: this is NOT the real sound, and someone needs to sing!
- Lyrics or translations can be displayed live on a screen, karaoke-style.
| Title | Artist | La | Year | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wonderful | Cate Le Bon | en | 2016 | From her fourth album, Crab Day |
| Pablow the blowfish | Miley Cyrus | en | 2015 | Almost as good as Fluffy. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| God, I want to be an artist, in my heart | The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 2014 | Each verse increasingly unlikely to get past today's censors. |
| The Eddic Poem of the Vikinges Who Do Go Berserk | Le Vostre GC | en | 2014 | Nyne vikinges and a mightye troll / Joyne eight moore for sea patrol. |
| Shibboleth | Reginald Pikedevant | 2014 | Brief ditty on the onomastic pitfalls of the United Kingdom. | |
| Villancico linuxero | Pánico en el núcleo (Panic in the kernel) | es | 2011 | Linux carol disparages Windows and Mac, makes Spanish nerds laugh: Que le den al Guindos, que le den al Mac, / que yo uso Linux y me va genial. |
| Gacela del amor imprevisto | Lorca / Sans Rancune / The Singing Organ-Grinder | es | 1998 | Lorca as universal revolutionary instead of reinventor of the Castilian romance: La sangre de tus venas en mi boca, / tu boca ya sin luz para mi muerte (reggaecito cojito con tango) |
| My pervert doppelganger | Momus | en | 1997 | Best song to mention Smithfield market, 'where refrigerated lorries unload dead cows.' |
| Copla del viudo del submarino | Juan Antonio Canta | es | 1996 | From the last Andalusian avant-gardist: En el fondo del mar tengo yo / Una novia en silencio / Un poquito de pescaito frito / Me trae su recuerdo Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Te quiero | Juan Antonio Canta | es | 1996 | Macabre ballad of frustrated love from the great farewell album of the last Andalusian surrealist, Las increíbles aventuras de Juan Antonio Canta, set to a marionettish accompaniment. |
| Bacteriën / The Virus Song | Willem Wilmink / Harry Bannink, trans. / arr. The Singing Organ-Grinder | nl en | 1996 | One of Wilmink's so-called intermezzos. When uncle Steve had had a poo / He scraped by hand each glob of goo / From his scrawny bum etc etc Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Carloons in the Anguish languish | Doc Clay | en | 1992 | Thrill your friends with a homophonic carol service featuring classics like 'Oh, ladle down off Bath lay him' and 'Shingled hells'. |
| Fungus the Bogeyman | The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1985 | Inspired in some fashion by Raymond Briggs' graphic novel. |
| Super Mario Sheep | 1985 | Mashup created for an agricultural theatre event. | ||
| Estoy tocando fondo | Viudas e hijas de Roque Enroll | es | 1984 | Where the fondo may be the International Monetary Fund. |
| Theme from Terminator | 1984 | Next project: Arnie-style organ. | ||
| Himno de la Comunidad de Madrid | Agustín García Calvo | es | 1983 | Muy bueno por irónico: Sólo por ser algo, ¡soy madrileño! (Cfr. Cánovas: Son españoles... los que no pueden ser otra cosa) Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| My Granny is a cripple in Nashville | Billy Connolly | en | 1981 | |
| Fluffy | Gloria Balsam / Richard van Dorn / Davey Sayles | en | 1980 | Her doggie gets lost in the woods, and Gloria is very sad: 'Here, Fluffy, where are you?' Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| A Martian sends a postcard home | Craig Raine | en | 1979 | Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings / and some are treasured for their markings - / they cause the eyes to melt / or the body to shriek without pain. |
| Song for the British working class | Cornelius Cardew | en | 1979 | Albanian scansion for one of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)'s more curious attempts to connect with normal people: Persisting in the face of every difficulty / In 1979 was formed our new party, a glorious victory. / Rallying to this flag is the only way, workers / To usher in, a bright new day of / Socialism in Britain. |
| You're the reason our kids are ugly | Lorretta Lynn, Conway Twitty | en | 1978 | |
| Hit me with your rhythm stick | Ian Dury | en | 1978 | Tropical stylee. |
| Clever Trevor | Ian Dury | en | 1977 | |
| Synonyms / Shumba | Thomas Mapfumo / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1975 | Flagrant misuse of chiShona material by Zimbabwe's most interesting singer. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Ik ben Gerrit | Gerrit Dekzeil | nl | 1973 | My name is Gerrit and I steal like the ravens, / I am a rogue in the eyes of the goody-goodies. / But what can you do if you have nothing / In this world where everything's a con. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Peppi en Kokki intro | nl | 1972 | Dutch 70s absurdist children's show. Video, possibly from another time or person: | |
| King of Rome | Dave Sudbury / June Tabor / The Unthanks | en | 1970s? | A pigeon race from Rome to England in 1913: On the day o' the big race a storm blew in / A thousand birds were swept away and never seen again. |
| Run, Samson, run | The Click Kids | en | 1970 | Run, Samson, run, Delilah's gonna get you, / Run, Samson, run she's gonna cut your hair, / Run, Samson, run, you're gonna lose your power / You're gonna go to prison and lie down dead. |
| Junk | Paul McCartney | en | 1970 | |
| I don't eat animals and they don't eat me | Melanie Safka | en | 1970 | Things were pretty bad in the 70s: I don't eat white flour, white sugar makes you rot, / Oh, white could be beautiful but mostly it's not. |
| Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) | Benny Hill | en | 1970 | |
| Las tetas de María Guevara | Perucho Aguirre / Quinto Criollo | es | 1970 | Absurd song about an absurd pair of Caribbean peaks: navigational and erotic aids. |
| Plegaria para el senador Robert F Kennedy después de su asesinato | Hermanitos García | es | 1970 | |
| Postman Pat / Pat el Cartero / Postmann Pat | Bryan Daly / Ken Barrie | no en | 1970 | In English or Norwegian. Virtual excerpt: Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Theme from the Magic Roundabout | Alain Legrand | 1970 | The bits featuring a barrel organ were more popular in Germany. Video, possibly from another time or person: | |
| I'm happy | Ivor Cutler | en | 1967 | And I'll punch the man who says I'm not. A boxing classic to be. |
| Darling, will you marry me twice? | Ivor Cutler | en | 1967 | Cartesian doctrine in micro format. |
| I'm going in a field | Ivor Cutler | en | 1967 | Green grass, yellow flowers / My lover’s eyes are blue. |
| Theme from Star Trek | Alexander Courage / Gene Roddenberry | 1966 | With scam-meister Gene Roddenberry's lyrics. | |
| Hungarian Goulash No. 5 | Allan Sherman / Johannes Brahms | en | 1963 | Do you like Hungarian food / They have a goulash which is very good. (Pumpernickel is also associated with Westphalia.) |
| Little boxes ('Ticky tacky') | Malvina Reynolds | en | 1962 | We all look just the same. |
| Ta Katie t'a quitté | Boby Lapointe | fr | 1962 | Pour une sonnerie, c'est une belle çonnerie! Legendary tonguetwister. Virtual excerpt: Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| James Bond theme | John Barry | 1962 | Quasi-ska version. Virtual excerpt: | |
| Poisoning pigeons in the park | Tom Lehrer | en | 1959 | |
| On the ning nang nong | Spike Milligan | en | 1959 | Where the cows go Bong! |
| Elube (Mi Churri, gran perrito/My doggie, big little doggie) | Ndirande Pitch Crooners / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1958 | The original song in Nyanja (Malawi) is about a girl, but it scans like a dog biting its tail, and so my English version is a homage to all the little doggies out there. |
| Concerto for Barrel Organ and Orchestra / Brass Band / Wind Band / Piano etc | Bernie Green | 1957 | The organ-grinder has at last got a serious classical gig but can't throw off the habits of a lifetime. With bleeding chunks of Tchaikovsky (1st Piano Concerto), Rachmaninov (2nd Piano Concerto), Greig (Piano Concerto), Fučik (Entry of the Gladiators) and Waldteufel (Les Patineurs). Virtual excerpt: | |
| The abominable snowman | Ogden Nash | en | 1956 | I've never seen an abominable snowman, / I'm hoping not to see one, / I'm also hoping, if I do, / That it will be a wee one. |
| Sunday Mirror | ET Mensah | en | 1956 | Highlife ad for a 1950s Ghanaian newspaper. |
| I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus OR I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth | H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society | en | 1955 OR 2011 | Innocent entertainment from when all families were normal OR Christmas fantasy about the Myths of Cthulhu. |
| El baile de los pajaritos / The birdie song / De vogeltjesdans | El payo Juan Manuel / Werner Thomas / Johnny Hoes | es nl en | 1955 | |
| A woman in love | Frank Loesser | 1955 | Modified transcription of a broken-down French organ-grinder's version of this Broadway standard. | |
| When you are old and grey | Tom Lehrer | en | 1953 | On request only. Virtual excerpt: |
| I hold your hand in mine, dear | Tom Lehrer | en | 1953 | I press it to my lips / I take a healthy bite / From your dainty fingertips. |
| The old dope pedlar | Tom Lehrer | en | 1953 | When happiness is a powder, from the well-known Harvard mathematician. |
| Frosty the defrosted snowman | Lonzo and Oscar | en | 1953 | |
| How much is that doggie in the window | Bob Merrill / Patti Page | en | 1953 | The one with the waggly tail. Lita Roza's version was Maggie Thatcher's favourite song. |
| I'm no communist | Carson Robison / Scotty Wiseman | en | 1952 | Cold War country alla Ronald Reagan: I'm no communist, I'll tell you that right now / I believe a man should own his own house and car and cow / I like this private ownership, I wanna be left alone / Let the government run its business, and let me run my own. |
| Marijuana, the devil's flower | Mr. Sunshine and his Guitar Pickers | en | 1951 | |
| Joe Louis was a fighting man | The Dixieaires | en | 1950 | Another boxing number. |
| Time to go home (Andy Pandy) | Maria Bird | en | 1950 | We didn't have a telly, but for some reason it's still familiar. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Take you meat out me rice | Lord Kitchener | en | 1950 | |
| Smoke, smoke that cigarette | en | 1950 | ||
| Yo tengo un moco | Trad. / Wagner / Mozart / Pierre Degeyter / traductor comunista desconocido | es | 1950 | Mashup with kazoo of a Spanish children's song about eating your bogies, The Mastersingers of Nuremburg, Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the Internationale ('Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers'). |
| Unemployment Compensation Blues | Les Pine / Barbara Dane / George Browne | en | 1949 | And when I'm through with my weekly routine, / I spend my money on Benzedrine. / I've got those 'By the time I get my check, / I become a nervous wreck' blues. |
| The blue Danube | Spike Jones | en | 1945 | It's green. |
| Stalin wasn't stallin' | Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet | en | 1943 | An American gospel quartet lauds Uncle Joe's revenge on his old friend Hitler. Not sure whether this will ever work again, after the Ukraine war. |
| All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth | Spike Jones | en | 1940 | A little girl's terrible lisp is caused by her insufficient dentition. Works well at primary schools and dental conferences. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| My girl's pussy | Robert Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders | en | 1940 | Often it goes out at night, returns at break of dawn / No matter what the weather's like it's always nice and warm. |
| Hawaii | Mary J. Muckle / Anon / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1940 | There are three words that sweetly blend, / That on the heart are graven; / A precious soothing balm they lend– / They’re Mother, Home and Hawaii! |
| Lydia, the Tattooed Lady | Yip Harburg / Harold Arlen / Groucho Marx / The Muppets | en | 1939 | From At the Circus. Appears as Todd's new ringtone in Breaking Bad. |
| With her head tucked underneath her arm | Rudy Vallee / Cyril Smith | en | 1937 | Comic Anne Boleyn ghost song. Tenuous Yorkshire connection: the 2021 Channel 5 period drama was filmed entirely in Yorkshire, featuring Bolton Castle, Markenfield Hall (Ripon), Ripley Castle, Fountains Hall and Castle Howard, Oakwell Hall, Harewood House, East Riddlesden Hall and St Michael’s Church, Emley. |
| When I'm cleaning windows | George Formby | en | 1936 | From the film, Keep Your Seats, Please |
| Wunderbar | Zarah Leander | en | 1935? | Popularised in Britain as 'Wonderbra' |
| Shave 'em dry | Lucille Bogan | en | 1935 | I've got nipples on my titties big as the end of my thumb / I got something tween my legs 'd make a dead man come. |
| To The Tabulating Machine Division (IBM Songbook) | IBM employees | en | 1935 | Punch a card for every sale that's made. / There's a record which will never fade. / Sort them out by man and state - / Speedily we tabulate. Etc. etc. |
| Nobody loves a fairy when she's 40 | Arthur Le Clerq / Tessie O'Shea | en | 1935 | |
| Ugly woman | Roaring Lion / Sir Lancelot / Jimmy Soul | en | 1934 | If you want to be happy and live a king's life, never make a pretty woman your wife! |
| Stalin epigram | Osip Mandelstam, trans. Dmitri Smirnov, music Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1933 | We are living, but can’t feel the land where we stay, / More than ten steps away you can’t hear what we say. |
| Ursonate / Sonate in Urlauten | Kurt Schwitters | 1932 | Schwitters wanted to destroy conventional forms. This mashup with JS Bach and reggaetón is a revenge of the nerds. | |
| My brother makes the noises for the talkies | Albert Whelan / Jack Payne / Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band | en | 1931 | |
| Doris the goddess of wind | Douglas Byng | en | 1930? | From his royal campness. Used in Alan Bennett's 2010 play The Habit of Art. |
| Seven skeletons found in the yard | Lord Executor aka Felix Garcia (ca.1878-1952) | en | 1930 | From a calypso genius and the king of extempo: Hideous discoveries and monstrous crime / Always happen at the Christmas time. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Cabaret boys | Douglas Byng / Lance Lister | en | 1928 | Camp classic from the Pansy Craze, with numerous double entendres |
| El menú | Zöllner / Arregui Trecet | es | 1927 | La versión conocida es la de Los Xey (1953), pero canto la que se hizo para la Coral del Ensanche de Bilbao. |
| It's a long way from amphioxus | Philip H. Pope | en | 1921 | Evolution, sung to Tipperary: Well, it's goodbye to fins and gill slits, and it's welcome lungs and hair! / It's a long, long way from Amphioxus, but we all came from there. |
| El dilluns jo no treballo | Valenciano | ca | 1920 | Song in Valencian lists the days of the week on which I don't work. Their number is lucky. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| I'm living alone and I like it | Sophie Tucker | en | 1920 | |
| Panpipe call used by an itinerant French pot-mender and pig-gelder in Galicia | Trad. | es fr | 1920 | With humorous quotes from Spanish Golden Age theatre (inc Quevedo and Calderón), sketching the accent, appearance and behaviour of French castrators and pot menders in the 16th/17th centuries. (Ambulant moped-chain-powered knife-grinders in Barcelona and other Mediterranean cities still use panpipes as advertising medium, but with less sophistication.) |
| Had je me maar | Louis Davids | nl | 1916 | Song that provided the nickname for the Dutch anarchist politician, Cornelis de Gelder. |
| Second Sonata, The Airplane, fragmento | George Antheil | 1916 | Everything's back to front: The Singing Organ-Grinder is the plane. | |
| Toccata No. 2 | George Antheil | 1916 | ||
| Mashup: Petrushka + My old man's a dustman | Igor Stravinsky / Lonnie Donegan | en | 1915 | Portrays on the organ the orchestral imitation by Stravinsky of a barrel organ and a musical box. The video shows the Bolshoi dancing my arrangement. Ends with one of my favourite children's songs. Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| Sports et divertissements | Erik Satie | en | 1914 | A selection, in English. |
| La nina encantada | Joan Amades (Cançoner) | ca | 1910 | Jaime I of Aragón hunts his Hungarian queen, Violante, in the form of a stag. Alludes to the foundational myth of the Danubian country. Anti-folky version. |
| Woad aka National Anthem of the Ancient Britons | William Hope-Jones | en | 1910 | To Men of Harlech: Saxon, you can waste your stitches / Building beds for bugs in britches: / We have woad to clothe us, which is / Not a nest for fleas. |
| England and America. I. On a Rhine Steamer | James Kenneth Stephen | en | 1909 | In short it's due to thee, / Thou kind of Western star, / That we have come to be / Precisely what we are. / But every now and then, / It cannot be denied, / You breed a kind of men / Who are not dignified |
| The clean song | Trad. | en | 1900s? | There once was a farmer who sat on a rick / A ranting and raving and waving his / Fist at some people who sat on his walls etc. etc. |
| Paternal. Tornant del Liceu en la nit del 7 de novembre de 1893 | Joan Maragall / The Singing Organ-Grinder | ca en | 1893 | I've done this a few times in Catalan and English but don't really know where to take it next. |
| Epitaph for James Bosworth, who survived the Charge of the Light Brigade and died, aged 70, a stationmaster at Northam, Southampton | Ben Trovato | en | 1882 | His name was actually John Hacker/Hucker Bosworth and his service overseas in the 1850s doesn't seem to include Balaclava, but still a splendid thing: Though shot and shell flew around fast, / On Balaclava’s plain, / Unscathed he passed, to fall at last, / Run over by a train. |
| The best of Tristan und Isolde | Wagner / The Singing Organ-Grinder | 1880 | Wagner was a big country and western fan. | |
| The cummerbund: an Indian poem | Edward Lear | en | 1874 | |
| Manantiales de nitroglicerina (Nitroglycerin springs) | Anón | es | 1873 | Anarchist song: Nivelacion social!... Rota la valla / No más habrá, no más ladrones; / Partirémos sus bienes, sus millones / Cuando llegue su hora á la canalla. |
| The owl and the pussy-cat | Edward Lear / Mátyás Seiber | en | 1871 | Can be performed with a projection of the 1952 Halas and Batchelor cartoon short for which Seiber's music was written |
| Cantata nacional | Josep Anselm Clavé | es | 1864 | In his collection, Flores de Estío, the Catalan master utters Hispanophile sentiments which many prefer to forget: ¡Gloria á ESPAÑA! dó en paz hoy florecen / Con las ciencias, la industria y las artes; / Dó el progreso derrumba baluartes / Que en talleres se ven transformar. |
| Land of my fathers | Evan James / James James / Private Eye | en cy | 1856 | Phonetic transliteration of the Welsh: My hen laid a haddock on top of a tree / Glad farts and centurions throw dogs in the sea. |
| Coplas novas y divertidas las cuals esplican los mals ratos que solen donar las pusas los polls y las chinchas com nu veurà lo que no sirà siego | Ramon Barrull (Lérida / Lleida, C19th, printed by Coromines) / The Singing Organ-Grinder | ca | 1850 | Broadside ballad about vermin: Las chinchas es cosa bruta, / Conforme hos he dit; / Perque se solen posar, / A los pots y banchs dels llits. |
| Limericks | Ranjit Bolt, Edward Lear et al | en | 1846-2014 | High-class doggerel. |
| Little Billee aka Little Boy Billy | William Makepeace Thackeray / Bob Roberts | en | 1845 | Cannibal shanty based on Thackeray's parody of La Courte Paille / Il était un petit navire (C16th?). There are also Catalan and Italian versions, but the best are the Portuguese Nau Catarineta, sung ceremonially in parts of Brazil, and the Dutch Ketelbinkie. I believe the latter is also based on Thackeray. The best-known English melody is that of Bob Roberts and has much in common with that in Harold Scott's English Song Book (1925). Ralph Steadman did a nice piratey version. |
| Parody of Heavenly Union | Anon | en | 1845 | Parody of Come, Saints and Sinners, Hear Me Tell, a hymn popular in the South, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845, the Anti-Slavery Office) |
| The teetotallers | Rev. John Mason Neale | en | 1843 | Neale was a CoE conformist activist and scourge of dissenters |
| The loving ballad of Lord Bateman | William Makepeace Thackeray / Charles Dickens | en | 1839 | Parody of a popular ballad. |
| Ode to Joy / An die Freude | Schiller / Beethoven | de en | 1824 | The recording is of a version for Alan Pell Mini 20. Rowan Atkinson did it all rather differently. Virtual excerpt: Video, possibly from another time or person: |
| El lobo devorador | Trad. | es | 1800 | A ravenous wolf in 19th century Spain. I don't think it's a metaphor for George Borrow: Es posible, justo cielo / que permita tu bondad / que contra el hombre se ensañe / una fiera sin piedad? |
| El cura enfermo | Anon | es | 1800 | Priestly love, Cadiz style: Estando un curita malito en la cama, / a la media noche llamó a la criada. / -¿Qué tiene el curita, tan deprisa llama? / -Quiero chocolate, lo quiero en la cama. |
| Los ayres fijos: poema didáctico en seis cantos | José Viera y Clavijo | es | 1784 | Ode to a hot-air balloon: Moradores de Nesle ¿Que es aquello / Que veis venir rasgando el Horizonte? / No es la ascencion de Ganimedes bello, / Ni el precipicio del audaz Faetonte, / Del Iris matizado no es destello, / Ni el Pegaso que dexa el doble monte; / Es la Nave Aërostática velera / De Argonautas que surcan la atmosféra. |
| La locura más discreta que se dice executó la villa de Níjar del obispado de Almería, el día trece de septiembre de este presente año de 1759 | Diego Ventura Rejón y Lucas | es | 1759 | Vía Ortega y Gasset, a tale of popular madness: Con aquestos desbaratos / toda casa esta assolada, / no dejando tales tratos, / cazos, sillas, platos, nada, / ni aun la nada entre dos platos. |
| Here, here, here is pig and pork | en | 1680s | Irish anti-Catholic song: Giving an Account of a Father Wifely, the Popish Bishop of Kildare in Ireland, and a Shop-keeper's Wife in High-street, Dublin. | |
| To a lady that desired me I would beare my part (sic) | Richard Lovelace / The Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1649 | First use of 'serenade' in English: What, though 'tis said I have a voice; / I know 'tis but that hollow noise / Which (as it through my pipe doth speed) / Bitterns do carol through a reed. |
| Upon Yorkshire ale | Mathew Stevenson / Singing Organ-Grinder | en | 1645 | Pox take your Yorkshire Ale, / It did so firk my tail / That I had like beshit me [...] And know'st thy wily wort, / Is wont to make us squort / Over a thousand hedges |
| Dialogue Between a Glutton and an Echo | Anon | en | 1634 | Echo verse with audience participation. Lead: My belly I do defy. Echo: Fie! |
| When that I was and a little tiny boy (Hey, ho, the wind and the rain) | William Shakespeare / John Harle | 1601 | Feste the Fool's closing song from Twelth Night. Version of Elvis Costello's version of the traditional version sung by Alfred Deller. | |
| Dale si le das, mozuela de Terrassa | Anon / Cancionero de Barbieri | es | 1600 | Early modern joke song, where the expected obscenity always turns into something inoffensive: Una mozuela de Logroño / Mostrado me habia su co.......po de lana negro que hilaba. Con una larga etcétera. |
| Villançico contrahaziendo a los mocaros que sienpre van ynportunando a los peregrinos con demandas | Juan del Encina | lf | 1520ish | A beggars' song: the poet was in the Holy Land in ±1520 and tried to reproduce the lingua franca of the hordes of fake amputees and saints who plagued poor pilgrims there and at home: 'Benda ti istran plegrin: / benda, marqueta, maidin. / Benda, benda stringa da da / agugeta colorada. / Dali moro namorada / y ala ti da bon matin.' |
| Cowtown | They Might be Giants | en | Video, possibly from another time or person: | |
| Sabre dance | Aram Khachaturian / Andrews Sisters | en | Pure Orientalism: Drums are booming, cellos zooming, / Cymbals crashing, sabres flashing in a willy nilly sort of way,. | |
| The worm song (nobody likes me) | en | |||
| My uncle's Sunday School | en | Lighthearted Bible education. My mum used to sing the verse about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (The Lord provides his children with an asbestos shirt). Chorus: Old folks, young folks, everbody come,/Join my uncle's Sunday School & make yourselves at home:/ Bring your sticks of chewing gum and sit upon the floor,/And we'll tell you bible stories that you never heard before Video, possibly from another time or person: | ||
| La fiera malvada de Jerusalén | Trad. | es | Ballad about mythical monsters: Dos cuernos en la cabeza / también alas que volaba / vestida como una tortuga / no la hería ninguna bala. | |
| Pican los mosquitos | El payo Juan Manuel | es | Me duelen los hue...sos |
Update: 2023/03/06
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