Simon and Garfunkel, based on a poem by...Edward Arlington Robinson.

They say that Richard Corey owns one half of this whole town
With political connections to spread himself around...

Paul Simon.

But I, I work in his factory
And I hate the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Corey.

Dad used to sing to us at night, I'm not sure if Mom did. But I remember after my parents split up and Dad moved to his duplex at night he'd pace the hall between my bedroom and his (where my brother slept) and sing to us. There was some song with angels in it, but what I remember most is him singing "Old Saint Nick", "Away in the Manager" no matter what time of the year. I think occasionally he mixed it up with some Motown, but those two were my favorites.

Oh, and then you can sing them Tom Lehrer's "Irish Ballad":

And to continue the theme, Da Vinci's Notebook's "Another Irish Drinking Song":

Gather 'round ye lads and lassies, set ye for a while,
and harken to me mournful tale about the Emerald Isle.
Let's all raise our glasses high to friends and family gone,
and lift our voices in another Irish drinkin' song.

Consumption took me mother and me father got the pox,
me brother drank the whiskey 'till he wound up in a box.
Me other brother in the troubles met with his demise,
me sister has forever closed her smilin' Irish eyes.

Now everybody's died, so until our tears are cried,
we'll drink and drink and drink and drink and then we'll drink some more.
We'll dance and sing and fight until the early mornin' light,
then we'll throw up, pass out, wake up and then go drinkin' once again.

(And for anyone who's clicked to see the lyrics in full, I apologize in advance for all the nassssty popups.)

And then segue into Moxy Fruvous's "Drinking Song"?

Okay, from Betsy's link in Press.

Tales of the Gold Monkey! I was just talking about that show a week ago. The facade for the hotel is still on Universal's back lot. I rode the tour last week and saw it and was thinking about the show.

And then segue into Moxy Fruvous's "Drinking Song"?

That one's not quite as funny as the others...

[eta: Better make it "Jockey Full of Bourbon" instead.]

[eta again: Which, fine, is a cover, but is also catchy and about alcohol.]

[Speaking of which, "Alcohol" by BNL should be on that list somewhere.]

I know the fishy song (with nonsense syllables - boop boop dittum dattum wadda BOOM before each verse), but I don't know who taught it to me.

I like the killing-you-girlfriend song "Delia's Gone" - "The first time I shot Delia, I shot her in the side. Hate to see her suffer so, so with the second shot she died"

Tony Blair thinks that ASH should play him. . .

Who thinks that ASH should replace him?