[Jenna_Bird]

I think it was "Wheat Kings", or possible "Scared". I'm pretty sure it is one of the two.

-Jenna

[farmerdan]

if my memory serves my correct,
"this one's called they're phasing my job out ma"
plant studios
sausalito, califorina
1998 sometime

what song was it really?

sorry i thought i included it in there, it was scared

[Gortron]

"this is a song about politics....did i say politics? i meant barbie dolls."

pigeon camera

[HipFan1]

Here's another one to add to the list: "Good Thing We Don't Got Capitol Punishment" as introduced for Wheat Kings in Barrie, Ontario as part of ARA 1997.

I like that one too, another one I like is, "this is a song about a Canadian myth, and like all Canadian myths, this just happens to be true, Three Pistols ladies and gentlemen!"

[patiodweller]

re: Ahead by a Century:

"Here's a song about.... I don't know...."

and....

"Here's a song about a tree...."

and my fav from Woodstock '99:

"Here's a song about the largest snake in the world sheding its skin and then taking pieces of that skin drying them and selling them to the fans...."

[hiphiphip50]

We'd like to play a song about a festival as big as the grand canyon, they have uh, they got pack muels at the one tho, you know the burrows theyll take you down to the canyon floor you gotta reserve months in advance and heres whats more, if you take the burrows down after 5 o'clock pm your not insured and they cant assure you of what might happen to them well the burrows it got cold and we werent prepare, so we gutted them from stem to stern and we crawled inside, we were no longer scared and we kept warm, so heres a song for them hard working little burrows, the beautiful lull.....

[Marcus1970]

"This is called Drive the Speed Limit"

- Bobcaygeon

[FighterAndLover]

"This song is called Have Not Been The Same" -ABAC
"This is a song about a giant penis" -Coconut Cream
I also really liked, "well folks, it's a good life if you don't break too many guitar strings," from That Night In Toronto.

"No Canadian band! No Canadian band would be complete without a song about a Nautical Disaster. This is a song about a Nautical Disaster, and it's called "Nautical Disaster".

love that one.

[tth_fan]

"Here's a song about pee pee, it's called Trickle Down"

[Corby]

"This song is called spartacus"

Fully Completely - 1996-05-29

[chives]

This song is called, "We're going to party like its 1999"

Ahead by a Century (most of the 1998 and 1999 shows....

[FighterAndLover]

"Here's a song about pee pee, it's called Trickle Down"

Doesn't he say that after the song? I'm thinking of the Fisherman's Paradise version.... he's probably said it other times, too.

[Corby]

"He put a stopwatch on his motel stay. Wanted to know exactly how long he'd stayed there. Stopwatch, gentlemen"

Eldorado - 2000-10-03

[Shane Kroeker]

Proposal: Anyone with an extensive Tragically Hip bootleg collection and has feelings of ambition can apply.
The Task: Select the favourites from the songs that we have listed in the thread (perhaps by means of a poll), and create a compilation CD. The cover art would contain these fake song titles on the back. I think it would be cool... anybody else? any takers?

[tth_fan]

"Here's a song about pee pee, it's called Trickle Down"

Doesn't he say that after the song? I'm thinking of the Fisherman's Paradise version.... he's probably said it other times, too.

The version I'm thinking of it's before the song.
Rotterdan, NE 11/13/90