So, within a one week period I have heard multiple times from multiple (unrelated) people about one particular song. One learned it in a pub in the North of England, another heard it at Maryland's Renaissance Faire (you have to spell it like that.."Faire"...you know).
It's called: Five Constipated Men in the Bible
Featuring verses about characters like Cain (he wasn't "Abel") or Moses (he took the tablets) or Solomon (sat for 40 years "on a throne")
So, it made me wonder about other "irreverent" songs and a few maybe came to mind. In class a few days back some people brought up anti-teacher songs you could learn at school. Or the "We three kings of orient are, tried to smoke a rubber cigar, it was loaded, it exploded...We two kings of oreint are...I'm a king from orient is...Silent Niiiiiiight..." song. Or maybe "Jingle Bells, Batman smells..." (but is that really "irreverent"?)
I suppose...we could count "Popcorn Popping" as an irreverent song, right? Huh? Huh? (that's a shout out to the Mormon readers)
But really, do you know of any other irreverent songs? Something like "Evan Almighty"ish. Maybe the entire score of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" would do....but it's not really a...folk song.
I know they're out there! If you know one, let me know!
2 comments:
One of my favorites from childhood is in this 100 Hour Board question: http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=viewall&id=19438
(Sorry I don't know how to link right.)
Any of the songs in "Music and the Broken Word" are irreverent, but they're not really folk songs.
One of my aunts used to sing "Do your boobs hang low, do they wobble to and fro?" That's not particularly irreverent in terms of the sacred--unless you consider ears sacred--but it's a parody.
Are you looking for songs that specifically parody religious themes or just parody/amusing folk songs in general?
Did you ever go to girls camp? There's probably some good irreverent songs in that corpus. Or maybe only if you went to the girls camps that I did...
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