Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Spoons Murder and Other Mysteries

The Spoons Murder and Other Mysteries

O'Drisceoil, Con

Hardcover

General MusicGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1906628513
ISBN13: 9781906628512
Publisher: Checkpoint Pr
Published: Apr 2 2013
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
For the past couple of decades these songs have been passed around and savoured by those who delight in the pleasures of improbable stories and witty verse. Several have been recorded by Jimmy Crowley, Rosie Stewart and others, and some of them have become modern 'folk songs', having entered the living tradition and being transmitted from singer to singer. For the first time the general public can enjoy what has up to now been a treat available only to the few - the comic songs of Con Ó Drisceoil. Here you will find many intriguing tales: the birthday cake with extraordinary properties; the cockroach who debates nice points of philosophy with his victim; the awful fate of the man who rattled his spoons once too often, and many more. The author's capacity for creating bizarre situations is matched by his ability to capture them, as he himself remarks, in flawless rhyme and in a metre without blemishes! A genuinely funny and captivating collection, both as sing-along folk songs or as stand-alone stories and comic verse.

Also in

General Music

View All