Snapshots Spillover: More Horse Songs

There were lots of horsey songs I couldn't fit into this weekend's Snapshots, from the obvious stallions...

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

To the old reliable carthorses...

Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Jacky - White Horses

KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Swimming Horses

And some that were rarer than unicorn droppings...

The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Song

The Newcomers - Pin The Tail On The Donkey

Dee Clark - Ride A Wild Horse

Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - Ride A Wild Horse

Any Trouble - Rocking Horse

That Petrol Emotion - Dance Your Ass Off

The Black Crowes - Appaloosa

Len Marten - Champion Red Rum

The Raglan Four - Shergar Song

Wild Flag - Racehorse

Here's one I've been listening to a lot lately, from a masked man on horseback...

Snapshots #441 - Songs About Bodies Of Water

This is the late River Phoenix. I was going to put his picture up here yesterday, but I figured it'd make the link too easy. I have to be so careful with you guys. Instead, I went with Mr. Bragg because...

Billy Bragg - Body Of Water

Here are some more songs about that. Hope you can swim.

15. A Guy Named... Jarvis?

A Guy Named Joe meets another Sheffield Cocker.

I can't believe that this is the first time Joe Cocker has ever appeared on this blog.

Joe Cocker - Delta Lady

14. What Mark Knopfler wore round his head.

He wore a headband.

The Band - Up On Cripple Creek

13. Don't challenge him to fisticuffs.

Louis Armstrong - Canal Street Blues

12. Charlton Heston was their President.

Charlton was the President of the National Rifle Association.

The Gun Club - The Straits of Love & Hate

11. Jog round the oil platform.

Runrig - Loch Lomond

10. Sweeter than The Who's Magic.

The Who had a Magic Bus.

Honeybus - Cross Channel Ferry

9. Climbing without ropes, where Jason Bateman got into trouble.

Jason Bateman starred in The Ozark. Good show. You should give it a watch.

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Arroyo

8. All Amish wink... but in a funny way.

Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

7. How I feel when I discover the price of fuel has gone up again.

That Petrol Emotion - Swamp

6. Young tearaways in the country capital.

Nashville Teens - How Deep Is The Ocean?

5. Blackburn, Orlando and Montana are all sad places.

Bluetones - Down at the Reservoir

4. Verstappen seen in the cemetery.

Max... by graves.

Max Bygraves - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea

3. Full Monty star becomes more impressive.

Grand (Mark) Addy.

Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake 

2. Where a Scottish Queen met her maker.

Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded in...

Fotheringhay - The Pond & The Stream

1. Bernice's pet rung the doctor: "Help, Doctor, I'm all in a tizzy!"

"Bernice's pet rung" was an anagram.

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Let the water carry you back here next Saturday for more Snapshots.

The United Kingdom of Song #16: Derry

Across the sea to Northern Ireland today, to Londonderry, or Derry to its inhabitants, birthplace of the Undertones, That Petrol Emotion and D:Ream (but not their famous keyboard player, who came from Oldham).


Derry crops up in any number of popular songs, not least as the tune to Danny Boy: The Londonderry Air.


Lyrical mentions include The Streets of Derry by Shirley Collins, David Allan Coe's Crazy Mary and a song from Finean's Rinbow, How Are Things In Glocca Morra, which appears to have been recorded by everybody and their dog... but here's Babs doing it, because you can't go wrong with Babs.


This week's selection comes from another famous Derry resident though... Mr. Neil Hannon.

I was born in Londonderry

I was born in Derry City too

Oh what a special child

To see such things and still to smile

I know that there was something wrong

But I kept my head down and carried on