Yesterday Brian Cowen told (shouted at actually) Dáil Eireann that he’ll be leading the country his way. Which of course led me and a few others to be thinking of Frank Sinatra and our dear leader singing a long a Frank.
This led me to watch Leaders Questions this morning in the Dáil waiting for the next song title. Speaking about the new people monitoring Anglo Irish Bank (including the newly knighted by Mr. Cowen SIR Alan Dukes) the phrase ‘I have confidence’ was repeated over and over. This led me to The Sound of Music of which I’m far too well acquainted with.
So now dear readers (in the spirit of a Twenty Major thread on popular culture with and Irish twist which goes on for ages and ages and has me in stitches) I invite you to suggest song titles for Brian to sing-a-long to given the current climate and in the national interest.
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“I will survive” by Gloria Gaynor?
“Things can only get better” by d-ream?
“I’m Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 To Me” by Fight Like Apes (that’s the one that goes “You’re so fired” over and over again to the public servants)
“We’re on the wrong road
slinging the bank’s load
We’re on the road to god know where”
(what is that song)
“Baby I don’t care” by Transvision Vamp
“Trouble” by Ms Spears (probably dedicated to Nicola and Richard)
“Nobody want you where you’re down and out” (Dean Martin at some point)
“Running up that Hill” Kate Bush
“Got to pick a pocket of two” by ABN^h^h^h from Oliver (and please get Rowan Atkinson doing it)
With a song, “High on a hill stood lonely goat herd!!!”
And a quote… ‘Hold onto your hat, it’s going to be a bumpy night’ B.D.
Ohhhh, that quip will come back to haunt him, huh!
“Didn’t we almost have it all?” by Whitney Houston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_QaJmabqHo
“Dont Laugh at me cos I’m A Fool” by Norman Wisdom
“Send in the Clowens” (with apologies to Clowns everywhere…..
A range of songs by the Smiths suggest themselves – but for the moment we’ll settle for ‘Happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but Heaven knows I’m miserable now’….