Lyrics That Made You Laugh

Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar

"Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?"

 

That was recorded by a lot of different people. Bobby Goldsboro charted with it in late 1968, but this was the original version:

 

More Rush

"To break my fast on honey dew"

"Take Yourself a Friend, keep him till the End, whether woman or Man, makes you feel so good!

 

Somebody posted Weird Al's "Generic Blues" in a thread the other day. I chuckled pretty hard at that.

 

Written by Sonny Curtis of all people. "I Fought the Law" it ain't.

 

One of the most darkly funny lines I like is from The Kinks' "Alcohol"

"Oh demon alcohol - sad memories I can't recall" - I mean if you can't remember them, they are not memories. But Ray Davies just nailed something with that line that I find hilarious.

 

"Divorce Court" by the 5 Du Tones always cracks me up big time!

 

The acid song by Loudon Wainright always makes me smile!
Gary

 

Another one by Dylan, “On the Road Again” from ‘Bringing It All Back Home:’

 

Also if not mentioned...."THE NO-NO SONG" By RINGO STARR......

 

Harry Nilsson -- You're Breaking My Heart:

You're breaking my heart
You're tearing it apart
So f*** you

 

God*mn, man child
You f****d me so good that I almost said, "I love you"

 

'the blarney stone' by ween

and no, i'm not gonna quote it lol

ymmv

 

Warren Zevon -- Mr. Bad Example



I started as an altar boy, working at the church
Learning all my holy moves, doing some research
Which led me to a cash box, labeled "Children's Fund"
I'd leave the change, and tuck the bills inside my cummerbund
I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store
Laying tackless stripping, and housewives by the score
I loaded up their furniture, and took it to Spokane
And auctioned off every last naugahyde divan
I'm very well aquainted with the seven deadly sins
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in
I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth
I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross
I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I'll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy
Of course I went to law school and took a law degree
And counseled all my clients to plead insanity
Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald
Where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called
Then on to Monte Carlo to play chemin de fer
I threw away the fortune I made transplanting hair
I put my last few francs down on a prostitute
Who took me up to her room to perform the flag salute
Whereupon I stole her passport and her wig
And headed for the airport and the midnight flight, you dig?
And fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide
Looking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade
I opened up an agency somewhere down the line
To hire aboriginals to work the opal mines
But I attached their wages and took a whopping cut
And whisked away their workman's comp and pauperized the lot
I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me
I'll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy
I bought a first class ticket on Malaysian Air
And landed in Sri Lanka none the worse for wear
I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals
I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals

 

Deep Purple-Knocking At Your Back Door

"So we put her on the hit list
Of a common cunning linguist
A master of many tongues"

Suicidal Tendencies-You Cant Bring Me Down

"Who the hell you calling crazy?
You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson
...was eating Fruit Loops on your front porch"

 

Zappa had plenty. I once played Ms Pinky in the car and it brought the house down.

"I got a girl with a little rubber head
Rinse her out every night just before I go to bed
She never talk back like a lady might do
An' she looks like she loves it every time I get through

And her name is
P-I-N-K-Y
P-I-N, no lie
K-Y, me-oh-my
She's $69.95
Give her a try"

 

Lou Reed/Last Great American Whale

Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes
Some say they saw him off the coast of Florida
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
but you can't always trust your mother.

 

I played that song on a radio show I once co-hosted...

 

Zappa - It looks just like a Telefunken U47, you'll love it

B.B. King - I gave you seven children
And now you want to give them back

The Who - all of I'm a Boy

 

P.S. The Who may have been the funniest of the big British Invasion bands. Discuss.

 

Black grape & Shaun Ryder’s - It’s great when your straight is an absolute blast.
Too many to name on that album but the most obvious is
Neil Armstrong, astronaut, balls bigger than King Kong. First big swoon on the moon and he’s off to play golf, hole in one!

Also tramazi party which was about the temazepam epidemic sweeping the U.K. at the time. Is the funniest drug song ever recorded.

 

ZZ Top- Pearl Necklace

"And that's not jewelry she's talking bout, it really don't cost that much"

 

Absurd, hilarious, and brilliant at the same time:

And maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome
and the first tepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

 

The Loudon Wainwright version of Good Ship Venus which has more verses (though not all) than the Sex Pistols Friggin’ In the Riggin’- The Pistols’ version sounds more nautical, though. Oscar Brand’s take is only rated PG, so it doesn’t enter into the discussion.