Sorry for that quite morbid thread title, but I made a post on my blog that could interest you.

I was listening to a french song by Georges Brassens, "Le Verger du roi Louis" ("King Louis Orchard"). The words are from Theodore de Banville, a 19th century poet and were an adaptation of François Villon's Ballad of the Hung. It is about the men hung by King Louis XI

There is an amazing similarity with "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday. The French songs even says "des grappes de fruits inouis" (bunches of incerdible fruits").

This is the teaser. For more, read my post

Actually, the title of the post gave me a completely different impression.

(It may be an American thing.)

Merci Nicolas pour ce p'tit cours du soir! Effectivement, les similitudes sont frappantes; une belle et redondante allitération en R me procurant tout naturellement + de plaisir dans le texte de notres Georges national que la célébre et poignante chanson de Billie!
For the non-speaking french, I was just pointing out the real pleasure to hear a "redundancy" in the letter R in Brassens' text!

Must be an American thing. I have to say, this is slightly more appropriate than I first thought...

Yes, I believe the more appropriate English translation would be "HANGED men."

The more well-hanged the better...

Hilarious!

oh god

I've just googled "hung men" and I realize my mistake

I suppose you can't change that Henrik ? It makes the all thing look ridiculous
BUt i have songs about hung men too

I don't really care which type of hung man youare talking about... as long as it isn't this hung man:



/first and last American Idol reference from me, I promise.

In an episode of the late, great U.S. TV comedy series ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, there was a plotline involving a courtroom reality show in which the "judge" was actor Judge Reinhold (playing himself). The show's house band was led by the aforementioned AMERICAN IDOL castoff William Hung, also playing himself; the band was called William Hung and The Hung Jury.

Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
Fred Schneider- Monster

This is one of the most hilarious things this forum has seen! Love it!

"Hey Duckie, let me stick this 7 inch in the computer..."- Prince- "Batdance"

In search of a hung man: The Breeders on "Divine Hammer"

i'm glad i wasn't the only person who thought this.
i was expecting a discussion of modern rap music.

Let's not forget this underground R&B classic by Bullmoose Jackson, famously covered by Aerosmith:

Got me the strangest woman
You know this chick's no cinch
But I really get her goin'
When I take out my big ten inch...
...record of the band that plays the blues...

And Led Zeppelin had songs about both hanged men ("Gallows Pole") AND hung men (um, pick one...)

When I checked out this forum and saw I had so many replies to this thread when I didn't excpect too much, I knew something was wrong...
But I hope you took a look at my post about HANGED man

Anyway,

That good sweet candy man's in town
It's the candy man
It's the candy man
He likes a stick of candy just nine inch long
He sells as fast a hog can chew his corn
It's the candy man...
All heard what sister Johnson said
She always takes a candy stick to bed
Don't stand close to the candy man
He'll leave a big candy stick in your hand
He sold some candy to sister Bad
The very next day she took all he had
If you try his candy, good friend of mine,
you sure will want it for a long long time
His stick candy don't melt away
It just gets better, so the ladies say

Mississippi John Hurt (in the playlist above)

and next week we'll do the forum in Frenc/Spanish/SWedish, so it will be MY turn to laugh

Vanity 6- "Nasty Girl" (of course penned by Prince)

"That's right I can't control it-
I need 7 inches or more.
Tonight, I can no longer hold it-
Get it up! Get it up! I can't wait anymore."

oh god... so funny I can't get over that one...
Feel like a teacher whose tongue has slipped and who has to face a whole class laughing and making fun...
Wanted to post about comparative poetry and end up with men's changing room jokes...
But I'm sure Brassens (who was not the last when it came to dirty lyrics) and Villon (who wrote entire poems in 15th century homosexual slang) would have loved that !!!!

Sorry, Nicolas, for pouring slat in your wound but I have to post this. It may seem impossible but I’ve found a song simultaneously (in some sense) about “hanged” and “hung” men. It’s a bad taste joke from the politically incorrect Spanish band Siniestro Total, based on the swelling of the genitalia of the hanged men (yes, yes, bad bad taste). The title of the song is “Todos los ahorcados mueren empalmados” that could be translated as “Every hanged man dies hard-on” or, especially for this thread, “Every hanged man dies hung”. The translation of the lyrics:

“They put the rope around my neck
and I feel nothing but pleasure.
Serious faces everyone
but I don’t care.
The hangman in his hood
is going to pull the handle
The priest gives his blessings
but I don’t care.

Because
Every hanged man dies hard-on
Every hanged man dies hard-on
Every hanged man dies hard-on
Every hanged man dies hard-on

My legs are hanging,
the sentence is accomplished,
and what a feeling I’m getting,
I’m laughing at everyone’s face.
I’m left alone at the prison yard,
everyone left.
And even for a short time
it surely worth it.

Because because because because because because
Every hanged man dies hard-on
Every hanged man dies hard-on
Every hanged man dies hard-on
Every hanged man dies hard-on”

Don’t believe me? Here it is, it last barely a minute…

Brassens in his song « Le Moyenageux » (Middle Age Man), wishes he was living in the 15th century like his idol the poet/thief François Villon, and he also aludes to the hung/hanged man in Honorio’s song. In the beginning of the song he pictures himself having big parties :

A la fin, les anges du guet
In the end, the guardian angels (the 15th century cops)
M'auraient conduit sur le gibet.
Would take me to the gallows
Je serais mort, jambes en l'air,
Then I would die, like I was screwing
Sur la veuve patibulaire,
On the scaffold (it’s a play on words : here he says “the sinister widow”, that’s how they called the scaffold)
En arrosant la mandragore,
Spraying the mandragora
L'herbe aux pendus qui revigore,
The reviving hungman’s plant (mandragora was said to grow at the foot of the scaffolds, because of the semen sprayed by the dying hungman/hanged man, and had invigorating power)
En bénissant avec les pieds
And blessing with my feet
Les ribaudes apitoyées.
All the pitiful whores< :i>