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=== Tropes involving [[Great Big Sea]] include: ===
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "The Chemical Worker's Song" describes the horrific conditions faced in the chemical industry. It follows that the first verse uses this very dryly:
{{quote| Well a process man am I, and I'm tellin' you no lie<br />
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky<br />
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** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHgIJAQbH14&feature=fvw "Mari-Mac"], which gets faster and faster and faster as the song progresses: even the instruments can hardly keep up with the hair-raising speed, let alone the singers.
* [[One Woman Song]]: "Sally Anne", "Penelope", "Margarita".
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful]]: In "John Barbour" a princess has gotten pregnant. When the king finds out that the father, John Barbour, isn't nobility, he plans to have him killed. But when the king sees how incredibly handsome the father is ("If I were a woman as I am a man, [[Even the Guys Want Him|my bedfellow you would be]]"), the king gives him the princess's hand in marriage, and offers to let him "take charge of all my lands."
* [[Shotgun Wedding]]: "Hit the Ground and Run" (co-written with Russell Crowe) tells the story of a poor boy who finds himself in this situation.
* [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]]: "It's The End of the World As We Know It" again - [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Studio Chatter]]: Several songs, which makes sense given their history of [[Audience Participation]]. For example, in "Jakey's Gin", one singer excitedly tells the other to start singing an entirely different drinking song.
* [[Talk About the Weather]]: "How Did We Get From Saying I Love You" is about two people whose relationship has devolved into awkward pauses and discussions about the weather.
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: "General Taylor" is a sort of sly [[Take That]] sung by British sailors. General (later President) Zachary Taylor was responsible for a decisive victory against the British, so the song describes his funeral (a very lavish funeral, of course - but still a funeral) in great detail.
* [[Unwanted Spouse]]: "Scolding Wife".
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