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Instrumental version of Tequila
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. A jaunty little sea shanty about a ship sinking in a storm and killing everyone on board.
Urgh just whatever I think might be fun at the time, it's always bad
Bloodhound Gang - A Lapdance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying
https://m.soundcloud.com/bloodhound-gang/a-lap-dance-is-so-much-better
auld lang syne
If you're in Scotland when you do this people will sing along with you
then I could use the renunciation, a wobbly song to the same tune
I remember the first time my then-girlfriend, who was American, heard God Save the Queen while here in the UK. It was an instrumental version and she had no idea why they were playing My Country 'tis of Thee in a situation where you would expect a national anthem
Even our "anthem" is a white supremacist poem slapped on top of an old British drinking song. How apt. A country of drunken racists.
Somebody that i used to know
Weird Al.
Or Eminem.
Or Weird Al's Eminem parody.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this at a dueling piano bar. The crowd was into it.
I repeat the last song.
Or anything from an obscure screamo band.
Ave Maria. Twice.
Dead puppies
Goodbye my Lover by James Blunt would work to kill a hyped up mood.
"Loving You" as Im a guy who cannot sing and absolutely does not have Minnie Ripperton's range. It would be horrific and I would lean into it with all my might.
Isn't that just karaoke?
https://youtu.be/-Fo-qmliVAI here ya go
That guy could hit nost of the notes except that one. I cannot hit any of the notes as I am unskilled at singing
Summer loving
the internationale
Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde!
“Memories” from Cats
We Are the World which might be fine if everyone in the bar was fifty-plus, but wouldn't work today.
Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie
I worked with a 17 year old once who knew the entire lyrics to Alice's Restaurant and would recite them, not sing them, in the most deadpan voice.
I miss that guy.
If that kills the vibe, you got the wrong crowd.
The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns
I WOULD OFTEN GO THERE
TO THE TINY CHURCH THERE
Woman Is The N***** Of The World
(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)
Wtf? I have never liked the Beatles, I find most of their catalog grating to listen to, and most of their lyrics either nonsense or fart sniffing. This one, though it's a Lennon and Yoko, has to be the pinnacle of sniffing their own farts.
Yeah, even ignoring the obvious issue with the lyrics, it's a dog shit song.
The ISIS song
the cure - killing an arab
Sinead