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== [[Music]] == |
== [[Music]] == |
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* The American folk song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Crack_Corn#Meaning "Jimmy Crack Corn"] is this, probably. On the surface, it seems to be about a slave mourning his master who perished in an accident, but it is often interpreted as a celebration of the death, the slave having contributed to it via deliberate negligence. |
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* ''The Night Patty Murphy Died'' is a traditional Newfoundland folk song, recently recorded by Canadian-based celtic-rock band Great Big Sea. In the song, a funeral becomes a rowdy party. Subverted in that the mourners genuinely grieved for Patty Murphy, but showed their love for the departed by boisterous celebration. |
* ''The Night Patty Murphy Died'' is a traditional Newfoundland folk song, recently recorded by Canadian-based celtic-rock band Great Big Sea. In the song, a funeral becomes a rowdy party. Subverted in that the mourners genuinely grieved for Patty Murphy, but showed their love for the departed by boisterous celebration. |
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** It's doubtful the the mourners genuinely grieved for Murphy. To start, the chorus has the line, "They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another." Then there was the very irreverent things they did with Pat Murphy's corpse. The kept him in the ice box during the party with the addition of bottles of whiskey to, "keep that whiskey cold." Next, on the day of the funeral, they stopped the hearse at a bar for three hours or so. Finally they leave and when they get to the cemetery, they realize they left Pat's body at the bar. |
** It's doubtful the the mourners genuinely grieved for Murphy. To start, the chorus has the line, "They said it was a sin and shame and they winked at one another." Then there was the very irreverent things they did with Pat Murphy's corpse. The kept him in the ice box during the party with the addition of bottles of whiskey to, "keep that whiskey cold." Next, on the day of the funeral, they stopped the hearse at a bar for three hours or so. Finally they leave and when they get to the cemetery, they realize they left Pat's body at the bar. |
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* "Ringo" by Lorne Greene (of ''[[Bonanza]]'' fame). The spoken-word narrative, which reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1964, is a first-person account of an ex-outlaw-turned-Western lawman, and his encounters and relationship with the title character and antagonist, a notorious gunfighter who spread terror as he engages in a crime spree in the Old West. Toward the end of the song, the two meet (for the first time in several years) and engage in a gunfight. Ringo—remembering a time the main protagonist saved is life—shows a rare ounce of mercy to his old friend, but when he turns to walk away, he is met by a spray of gunfire and killed. As the trope-fitting lyrics point out after Ringo is declared dead, "''The town began to shout and cheer/Nowhere was there shed a tear for Ringo''." |
* "Ringo" by Lorne Greene (of ''[[Bonanza]]'' fame). The spoken-word narrative, which reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1964, is a first-person account of an ex-outlaw-turned-Western lawman, and his encounters and relationship with the title character and antagonist, a notorious gunfighter who spread terror as he engages in a crime spree in the Old West. Toward the end of the song, the two meet (for the first time in several years) and engage in a gunfight. Ringo—remembering a time the main protagonist saved is life—shows a rare ounce of mercy to his old friend, but when he turns to walk away, he is met by a spray of gunfire and killed. As the trope-fitting lyrics point out after Ringo is declared dead, "''The town began to shout and cheer/Nowhere was there shed a tear for Ringo''." |
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* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] anticipate this kind of end—up to and including bank holidays—for the unnamed "you" of "When Will You Die?" |
* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] anticipate this kind of end—up to and including bank holidays—for the unnamed "you" of "When Will You Die?" |
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== [[Stand Up Comedy]] == |
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] == |
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