The Corries --- The Vicar And The Frog

[metbalt]

its a song to be heard and absorbed for what it is

[mandolinda6]

Sorry guys-----this song has only been posted as part of The Corries history, not meant for arguing over.......comments have been blocked.

[harryf200]

Everyone would laugh at this song then the Corries or Fred Wedlock sang it in the 1970s but I wonder how well it would be received in 2010, in the light of the child abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. Would it be considered as satire or bad taste?

[TheGumby89]

@harryf200

Its still funny either way.

People need to lighten up and learn to laugh more in this world.

I love it

[vinesdodger]

@harryf200

What? you don't think this was satire back then? In the seventies and eighties there were lots of scandals within the catholic church, especially in Ireland and that is way they wrote this jesus christ think before you spew

[harryf200]

@vinesdodger I do think before I "spew" and I don't think that song was intended as satire back in the 1970s. Wherever I heard it performed it was played as "black comedy", not satire. Don't forget comedy in those days was much less PC than it is today. Anything was fair game to comedy writers just so long as it would get a laugh - racism, disability - and this song was performed at that level, not as satire. Perhaps you are too young to remember the 70s: Unfortunately I'm not!

[vinesdodger]

@harryf200

And satire is not comedy? maybe you should get a thesaurus. oh and just incase, that's a sort of book not a reptile. As for being old enough to remember the 70's I missed them by a hair, but maybe that's why I can define satire

[harryf200]

@vinesdodger LOL! Well, when I was at school the defintion of satire was 'witty language used to convey insults or scorn.' That song was not written, and not performed, to insult or scorn. It was just to get a laugh and in that respect, was no different from "fat man" and racist jokes.

[vinesdodger]

@harryf200 ehm, sorry to burst your yankocentric bubble, but in the rest of the universe non PC stuff is still considered comedy. As for Satire, satire is a form of comedy. Comedy used to discuss subjects otherwise untouched. Back then it was just that satire was not considered bad even in the USA

[harryf200]

@vinesdodger LOL! You're funny! Yes, I know satire is comedy, but not all comedy is satire and that song was not performed as satire. Is non-PC stuff still comedy? Surely that depends on the joke. E.g. Racist "nigger" & "Paki" jokes are not comic except to racists - they are offensive, are they not? But they were the part of just about every top-of-the-bill comedy act in the UK during the 1970s - e.g. Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson. (What does "yankocentric" mean?)

[WolfmanJoeHunter]

That's quite enough, frog!

[WolfmanJoeHunter]

Man I haven't heard this in years! Love it!

[doug666stingray]

hilarious !!!

[justjoy808]

I love it, especially the part where Ronnie got 'carried away' :D