Irish Ballad

[cheetah327soccer]

So tempted to sing this for my senior solo :D

[Loveless0012]

We heard in the engliosh lesson :D Thats where I began to love it <3

[chrisjg210]

my music teacher showed us because we were doing murder balads

i was so excited when i saw toms name and i was not dissaponted

[NonaMuskratLuv]

i love this song. great animation!

[FinalFantasyBlades]

Yup lying is sin and killing your family is okey

[loverofyugioh]

i ADORE this song, and i am irish myself, tom is cool

[frogg987]

lol, awesome vid. love the animations

[EzmiaJolie]

Uh- hello. KILLING IS WORSE THAN LYING. lol.

[lolpopowich]

@EzmiaJolie OH REALLY!?!?!

[davelisterrd]

@EzmiaJolie yes, that would be the joke.

[joejonasloverxoxoxox]

this is my fave song from tom lehrer!!!!! it was AWESOME!!



[ragnaros100]

like the pic when she plas the violin :P Pretty nice :D... Nice vid too :P AND THE SONG XD Love it .P

[DorrisDiaz]

Love it, extremely bad animation to completely tasteless lyrics!

[VivaRenata]

@DorrisDiaz The lyrics are not tasteless, they are brilliant!

[DorrisDiaz]

@DorrisDiaz for those who might critisize my choice of words 'Awesome'!

[1987Fate]

Why would her mother's face be in a hideous grin?

[VivaRenata]

@1987Fate Because she was poisoned with arsenic.

[doctorwhom1]

i wonder what she would do to her husband if she had one, competition for best lyrics you people can make up

[PUBSHAMROCKS]

ENJOY MY ART.

[SuperGarcia77]

Isnt the door bell a little to high? (when the neighbors arrive)

[Flatchlenter]

The animations aren't great but the pictures are awesome. And cute.

[funkylobberworm]

Last weekend, I dreamt that our Math teacher attempted to teach this song to my class. When I woke up, for a couple of hours, I was convinced that I absolutely HAD to learn this song on some instrument and perform it for the whole school. It was kinda creepy.

[Melshroom]

Oh this is just brilliant! Nice one.

[LordZelial]

it's a very funny animation :D

good job :o)

[oopspaw]

this is HILARIOUS! i LOVE the very bad animation! it makes the entire video! ... hahaha ... XD

[DaCapo2010]

Good job. You got the points across. That's the most important thing.

[TheFuzzyOfDoom]

I like how he said, "She set her sister's hair on fire." XD

[thechaos44]

How can this have 4 and a half stars??? It's freakin' grand!

[SuperGarcia77]

I just love this song. Its stuck in my head. :D

[Mikethekinslayer]

How is it called? It's beautiful! 5*

[xLLBxLLBxLLBx]

@Mikethekinslayer

Tom Lehrer - Irish Ballad i think.

[displacedcheesehead]

you're right, bad animations.

[PhantomInTraining]

One of my friends was singing this in class one day... So of course I had to look it up. ^.^ I think this is my new favorite song.

[yerac123]

I learned a couple of his songs from begging to end.. this is one of them and .. I love the Hunting Song, and Be pre[pared.. love all that he has done..

[Tendorian00]

i went to a show. it was perfect! haha. all the songs. they did the element two times faster then he sings it.... PERFECT. love this guy though.

[Robinwiiko]

haha, love it XD

[Strandingen]

And when at last the police came by, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, And when at last the police came by, Her little pranks she did not deny, To do so she would have had to lie, And lying, she knew, was a sin, a sin, Lying, she knew, was a sin. My tragic tale, I wont prolong, Rickety-tickety-tin, My tragic tale I wont prolong, And if you do not enjoy the song, Youve yourselves to blame if its too long, You should never have let me begin, begin, You should never have let me begin.

[Strandingen]

She weighted her brother down with stones, Rickety-tickety-tin, She weighted her brother down with stones, And sent him off to davy jones. All they ever found were some bones, And occasional pieces of skin, of skin, Occasional pieces of skin. One day when she had nothing to do, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, One day when she had nothing to do, She cut her baby brother in two, And served him up as an irish stew, And invited the neighbors in, -bors in, Invited the neighbors in.

[Strandingen]

Her mother she could never stand,

Sing rickety-tickety-tin,

Her mother she cold never stand,

And so a cyanide soup she planned.

The mother died with a spoon in her hand,

And her face in a hideous grin, a grin,

Her face in a hideous grin.

[Strandingen]

About a maid Ill sing a song, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, About a maid Ill sing a song Who didnt have her family long. Not only did she do them wrong, She did evryone of them in, them in, She did evryone of them in. One morning in a fit of pique, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, One morning in a fit of pique, She drowned her father in the creek. The water tasted bad for a week, And we had to make do with gin, with gin, We had to make do with gin.

[asbpab1966]

She set her sister's hair on fire

Sing rickety-tickety-tin

She set her sister's hair on fire

And as the smoke and flames rose highr

Dance around the funeral pyre

Playing a violin-olin

Playing a violin.

[flyingtadpole]

THe animation is cute.  Loved the funeral pyre!

[benja9990]

haha:D me2

[xLollipopxLovex]

First time i heard it, was in English class xD . lol

[Andr3asFCK]

yeah me to, :D

[xYaoinessx]

Same here XD

[ceroeck]

the police in the end was just priceless LOL

[mallenalla]

great job! the animations may be amateurish but they're anything but bad :-)!! and besides, this is one of my lehrer favies....

[Matixxje]

I Love it!

[rinahsheleff]

I really liked your animation--love that song!

[Dotka85]

I love this song :)

[MrFATSO300]

very funnt im 14 and i lv tom lerher.

Thanks

[blogward]

Well done! IMHO It's funny how Lehrer has the same sensibility as Charles Addams the cartoonist.

[peri4peri]

i'm italian and i love this song..this irish ballad

[Efferto93]

5 stars btw

[Efferto93]

You know, i think "gin" has been meant not as a common alcohol drink. More probably as a kinda rope. Metal rope.

[FallenAngelsTear]

well i think its ment as drink because there wont be a connection between the water that tasted bad and a metal rope. or not?

[Efferto93]

No, i mean, she drowned his father, so to raise him up, we have to use a rope. Gin. Maybe you are right though.

[FallenAngelsTear]

umm yeah well i think he means, since the water tasted bad they couldnt drink it so they had to drink gin instead :o

[Efferto93]

Kay, kay, let it be =)))

[bananamuffin39]

nice

[Lithdan]

I love this song!

It's briliant :D

[catapult59000]

I love this song!

[guineapiggirl911]

awsome

[WOOTJIRACHI]

Love it =)

[nosferatu55]

Classic lehrer.

[NoSunInMyOwnSummer]

It's funny to hear how the audience laugh because this song realy disturbed my classmates and I when we sang it as 5-year olds

[v4d1s]

5 ? Really?

[Flyingtart]

I remember we sung the swedish version of this when I was like 6 years old at school.

[TheConfoundUni]

just a normal monday then

[MySerpentine]

LOL

Yeah.

[rwhoover]

She set her sisters hair on fire!!!!!

Rickity tickity tin!!!!

Brilliant!

[tarkenberg]

Is it wrong that I find this cute?

[Pshycko]

Yes.

Wrong in every possible way.

[kiwipeeves22]

no, not at all......

:)

[rissakrissa]

That was awesome xD

[beatchanter]

Great Animation!

[giorgianika]

*and invited the neiiighbours in*

that's so creepy :)

But i LOVE it, really! good job!

xx

[loreleishannon]

fookin awesome! I love the drawings!

[Pieter345]

u kno when it says pieces of skin its a pink coloured piece of skin while the stick ppl are white... :D

awesome vid =D

[Gagaofevil]

Ooops! You're right XD Maybe it got muddy at he bottom of the sea?

Thank you~

[Pieter345]

lol nothn xD i like to notice things others dont xD

i love the vid even if the skin was purple so dont worry!^^

=D

[kiwipeeves22]

totally awesome song!

disturbing but awesome

[thebitingredead98]

What makes this song really disturbing is that this is actually true

[papfarspige]

I think it's disgusting?!

[MarianneBrandon]

Oh, my ... is that a Hot Fuzz reference in the animation?

[aaammmhg]

nice ;)

[xxIdinaxx]

This song is epic. Dear God, when was this written?

[DerAlchemist01]

it is from the album "revisited"

The year was 1960

Artist: Tom Lehrer

[16924fps]

It originally appeared on Tom Lehrer's first album "Songs by Tom Lehrer" in 1953, when he was a grad student at Harvard. He self promoted the record and did fairly well. He even appeared at a local club for a while.

[rallefightnight]

love thiss song

[holax01]

lol i heard this in school too. and i like the song and the animation is funny xD nice made!

[bh90210freak]

I heard this song in school, and I think it's really funny:D

[DG3in1GA]

Its good to see a young person appreciating timeless humor. The amination is well timed and fits well. I'd like to see what you'd do with Tom Lehrer's "Who's Next" or "The Vatican Rag".

[sensibleken]

i vote for vatican rag set to father ted scenes. good job

[poser3954]

When it comes to an Irish song animation is no care lad.

[ohoifiskeboller]

yay!! this song is so cool:D

[Yczz]

lol

[prioryms]

Theres no point of looking for the origional video of this song, it was made by Tom Lehrer around WW2 and he wrote the lyric's and sung it but i dont think it was recorded, this isnt him singing it i dont think

[paleologa]

Lehrer made his recordings in the late 50s and early 60s, and a few later than that.

He is definitely singing here.

[hcaulfield1010]

This is definately him singing. I have a recording of him singint it around the mid 50's (on his first album, Songs By Tom Lehrer)

[Ikillelves]

Ok, I know I have heard this tune before, is there another song that has that melody?

[RedheDude]

Wow....at least you ADMIT the animation is bad...anyone got the video with Tom playing and singing in it?

[SkippersDaughter]

hahaha! that was bloody brill! hehe! and I <3 the accent! yum yum yum! lol. x x x... etc.

[Machinegun0arg]

I can't stop listening to this, maybe insulting for Irish people, but it is only humour and it is funny

I believe we are many to think Tom Lehrer is a genious

[JungleCommando]

A metal cover of this song would be pretty sweet.

[shreddman8704]

this song is very morbid... metal.

[Scaash]

Only thing I wish was in the song was the funny build up talking about how he made the song and how its a Ancient Irish Ballad that was written a few years ago.

[oldpossum]

Now I'd like to turn to the folk song, which has become in recent years the particularly fashionable form of idiocy among the self-styled intellectual. We find that people who deplore the level of current popular songs - although I admit they do seem to be recording almost anything these days. have you heard Sessue Hayakawa's record of Remember Pearl Harbor?

-ctd-

[oldpossum]

These same people who deplore the level of current popular songs and yet will sit around enthralled singing Jimmy crack corn and I don't care or "Green Grow The Rushes, Oh!" - whatever that means. At any rate, for this elite I have here an ancient Irish ballad, which was written a few years ago, and which is replete with all the accoutrements of this art form.

-ctd-

[oldpossum]

In particular, it has a sort of idiotic refrain, in this case rickety-tickety-tin you'll notice cropping up from time to time, running through, I might add, interminable verses - The large number of verses being a feature expressly designed to please the true devotees of the folk song who seem to find singing fifty verses of On Top Of Old Smokey is twice as enjoyable as singing twenty-five.

-ctd-

[oldpossum]

This type of song also has what is known technically in music as a modal tune, which means - for the benefit of any layman who may have wandered in this evening - that I play a wrong note every now and then, I think I might add... (starts to play, then stops)

This song though does differ strikingly from the genuine folk ballad in that in this song the words which are supposed to rhyme - actually do.

-ctd-

[oldpossum]

I, ah, I really should say that - I do not direct these remarks against the vast army of folk song lovers, but merely against that peculiar hard core who seem to equate authenticity with artistic merit and illiteracy with charm. (starts to play, then stops)

-ctd-

[oldpossum]

Oh - one more thing. One of the more important aspects of public folk singing is audience participation, and this happens to be a good song for group singing. So if any of you feel like joining in with me on this song, I'd appreciate it if you would leave - right now. (Starts to play, and continues...)

-end-

[eagle416]

I just about wet myself at 1:00

[Bandgeek12444]

The people are looking quite pale eh?? lol

[tatuQueen]

its a additional verse to:

[just one thing before i go sing rickety rickety tin

... there is somthing i think yoi ought to know

they had no proof so they let her go

and they say she was tall and thin

and thin. they say she eas tall and thin.]

[tatuQueen]

love that song ! :D we sing it in school xD

[zepareace]

5 stars!!! I love your drawing style on paint, your attention to shading etc impressed me. Also, i'm a big lehrer fan and i couldn't find this anywhere so thank you very much!

[Gagaofevil]

Thank you for all the comments, even evil enjoys it :)

[PhoenixaSol]

hahahahaha, omg your animations were so hilarious with this! 5/5 stars! (p.s. I got in really big trouble singing this song in kindergarten, so that's why the animations were so funny to me) great job!

[Jameswynne1]

I thought that was amazing. The policemen look strange though. :)

[dumfuddled]

rofl! lehrer is a genius :D

[SuperSpitt81]

Wow, it's been a while since I heard this song. I suddenly feel a little bit old. Loved the vid. I laughed.

[torgunntunes]

this is fun and very amusing!!

step in for a look at my own simple live music video with animation..ciao

[zuperzoe]

she is a evil bitch! X(

[Bandgeek12444]

Imagine being her age, and going to jail for killing your family...

[Sephiroth7734]

No prob. She can just kill the prisoners, the guards, the wardens, etc...

[DeeDeeShine]

My mum used to sing this song to us on long trips from Dublin to Cork!! How strange!!

[zelda7792]

Never listen to this song while eating fast food! I was almost sick.

[RobbiesDanishSlave]

Haha .. I heard this song first time in the English lesseon. Cause we should read the lyrics .. And then our teacher found this song, and played it for us! Hahaha ! xD We had a lot of fun about this song ! I actually like it! - Very much ! ..

Nice animation ! (:

[Jools686]

ok listen up that was weird

[yalcinsahin]

Another reflection of viloence oriented nature of American culture! Disgusting.

[ClockwrkOrange]

Is ignorance bliss?

[boxpok]

absolutly. the less you know the less you care, the less you care the less you have stress, the less stress the less sleep you lose trying to find a legal way to kill liberals, bleeding hearts, and artists.

You know, the self important, self appointed, self righteous social concience of the world.

[zorksloss]

Dosen't it scare you that we also have the most nucks?

[lordfesterbarkis]

dude, it's a satire.

he's laughing at the song.

look at his other songs, then judge him.

[zepareace]

Tom lehrer is a satyrist. It is a mockery of the way things are. Find out more about him before you judge a highly intelligent, often cuttingly and at risk to himself, it being the early 60's when he was in force . His kind of humour was rarely tollerated then.

[SIMPFANN]

I played this song in English class in junior high..got a hell of a reaction from the other kids. LOL.

PS- your animation is pretty good actually- it makes the song even funnier, though being as evil and nasty as your profile proclaims you to be, I'm sure you don't care what I think.

[ElveeKaye]

This is one of my favorite Tom Lehrer songs. What a genius!

[lopo271]

i love tom lehrer

great vid

[bookwoman53]

Tom Lehrer released a double cd set.

[martianbunny]

This song I sung at school in choir when we were singing for fun. This is funny!

[Gagaofevil]

Does anyone know where i can get more Tom Lehrer songs? I'd like to do more movies...

[NITEOWL779]

ALL I KNO IS MYSPACE MUSIC

[ruudvinke]

Just type "tom lehrer" in your favorit webbrowser (google will do).

And then read the results (there will be many).

You'll find references to all his records/cds and much more, such as animations of some of his songs.

I'm looking forward to a Lobachevsky anymation.

Wikipedia is also a good entry.

[ianjames537]

I suppose you mean for free, right? (His CDs are available to buy on amazon(dot)com, etc.)

[MNsane]

dammit, it's hard to type when you're convulsing with laughter

[BonePhone]

Lying she knew was a sin.

[fightthespoons]

This awesome, and the animation isn't bad, it fits very well. Good job.

[NITEOWL779]

CAN U TELL ME HOW TO USE MOVIE MAKER????

[NITEOWL779]

I LIKE THIS SICK SONG IT COOL!!!

[specimenxz]

quality, better than the elements, hehe what a nutcase

[Aerianh]

nice :D

[RumwithJack]

Love it!!! xD

[Charexlchan]

I LOVE YOU YOU ARE MY GOD! My dad (R.I.P.) And I used to sing this together.

[richardcadbury]

Showed it to my freinds. we laughed for hours. Nice work! 5 stars!

[richardcadbury]

i find the introduction he gives funnier than the song.

[MBEilertsen]

I agree! all his introductions are hilarious! i love the guy! alas, I can't seem to find any of his whole shows:(

National Brotherhood Week intro is great fun, great fun the whole thing, all his songs, and the guy by the way.

[Gagaofevil]

Thankyou :) I only have paint and can't save a lot of pictures. I'm hoping to get hold of an animation tool at some point, though

[darkhunter160]

gaga, try using Macromedia(Ahem, Adobe now) Flash 8. It takes a bit to learn, but itll help greatly

[ianjames537]

Not animation, but nice pictures