Being in Cheltenham – the unofficial home of literary creation – and a student of Creative Writing, I’m encouraged by my tutors to attend the open-mic nights that occur on a monthly basis. the one I viewed last night was attended by a particularly ingenious performer who took old Irish folk songs and fables and twisted them into humorous parodies.  While listening, an idea occurred to me to do something similar.

Bare in mind, I’ve just thrown this together this morning and it needs work.  Each section is intended to be performed in the respective style of the band in question:

(Dubliners)

As I was browsing right through
The many vids on YouTube
I saw a version bizarre
An old Whiskey in the Jar

I clicked the link to view it
And the quality was quite shit
But clear as the beards on their chins
‘twas The Dubliners that did sing

Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy’o
Whack for my daddy’o
‘twas Whiskey in the Jar

(Thin Lizzy)

I went back to the options
And the next that I did click on
A classic from the seventies
The good; the great Thin Lizzy

Phil Lynott’s gruff voice was bliss
Gary Moore played that great lick
The old folk song they took on
To the joy of a new generation

Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy’o
Whack for my daddy’o
It’s Whiskey in the Jar’o

(Metallica)

And finally I move ya
From Dublin to California
With weight on Lizzy’s cover
The howl of Metallica

A classic it may not be
But that matters not to me
The sweat beads out of my pores
When I hear James Hetfield ROAR

Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy’o
Whack for my daddy’o
There’s Whiskey in the Jar’o

Whiskey in the Jar’o
Mush a ring dum a doo dum a da

Tags: Dubliners, Metallica, Thin Lizzy, Whiskey in the Jar

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