Yeah, it was the first one I thought of too. I was really surprised it hadn’t been mentioned by the time I got here.
GREAT SONG! Somehow I had forgotten about that one, and it is one of my favorites!
Add a couple more that popped to mind.
Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver by Primus.
I Must Increase My Bust by Lords of Acid.
“And when the barley sugar,
Perfumed with aniseed,
Slides down Annie’s throat
She is in paradise.”
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Musee/1489/gainsbourg/texts/lessucettes.html
I can see only one hidden meaning, whats the other one?
Interpretations, anyone?
Nick Lowe’s “Marie Provost” (about a forgotten silent film star who dies alone in her apartment with her pet dachshund, who ends up eating her – “she was a winner/who became a doggie’s dinner”) was the the first thing to come to mind.
Nearly the whole Shonen Knife catalog qualifies, but particularly “Black Bass”, “Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner”, “Twist Barbie”, etc.
The Barbarians’ “Moulty”, a mostly spoken monologue by drummer Victor Moulton about losing his hand and overcoming challenges would have to qualify – particularly since Moulton reportedly lost the hand as a result of an attempt to build a pipe bomb (something the song doesn’t address).
Mickey Jupp’s “You’ll Never Get Me Up (in One of Those)” is about his fear of flying. Graham Parker’s “Mercury Poisoning” and The Records “Starry Eyes” (apparently) are about music business deals gone bad.
What, nobody’s gonna mention “Wooly Bully” by Sam Sham and the Pharohs?
Like, you can’t even tell what the guy’s singing about. But “watch it now, watch it, here it comes!” 
Tripler
One, two, one two tres quattro. . .
There’s a song by Type O Negative called “Wolf Moon.” Not as weird as some of the others, but as far as I can tell, it’s either about lycanthropy or menstruation. The fact I’m not sure which probably does qualify as weird.
That would be **Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan **, a cause of furious giggles from my daughter and her cousins circa age 8-10 when their grandmother would play it on her car’s cassette deck. It was featured on one of those “Wacky Novelties” collections.
By the way, according to Allmusic.com, “The country duo of songwriter/saxophonist/keyboardist Jack Blanchard and his wife, keyboardist Misty Morgan, placed 15 singles on the country charts between 1969 and 1975.”
Tennessee Bird Walk was a 1970 country hit that also crossed over to the pop charts.
There are whole sub-genres of rock about strange things, viz. Dead Teenager Songs (Teen Angel, Last Kiss, Patches, etc.)
Pretty much anything by the Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band. Some examples:
Shirt: Self explanatory, I think
The Strain: a catchy number about constipation
My Pink Half of the Drainpipe: Neighbours at war
Tent: About a psycho who’d like to get you in his tent…
They were years ahead of their time, I tell you. Years!
I also have a song called Mr and Mrs Manatee, provenance unknown. It’s all about a happy family of manatees that just want people to stop running them over in speedboats.
Finally, something a little more contemporary: My Girlfriend’s Dead by the Vandals. A song about someone who’s so embarrassed that his girlfriend split up with him that he just tells anyone who asks that she got run over by a truck.
Sorry, just had to post again: There’s someone with less posts than me in this thread! That doesn’t happen very often…
A band called Stewed Mulligan appeared on Mountain Stage, singing what they believed to be “the only dance tune about Albert Einstein.” An excerpt:
“I had a frame of reference,
laid it on a fence.
Showed it relativity,
Ain’t seen the damn thing since.”
(chorus)
Albert, dance around,
Albert, be profound,
Albert, let your hair stick out,
And your socks fall down."
My quote is imprecise. In a quick search, I couldn’t find my tape of the performance. It contains a verse about a man who looked in a telescope and saw the back of his own head. There’s also a part about a wave and a particle, both asking, “Which one of us am I?”
Of course, this list would not be complete without…
Which includes the immortal lyrics…
<sniff> It’s just beautiful!!
How about Dear Penis by Rodney Carrington?
Dear Penis,
I don’t think I like you anymore,
You used to watch me shave,
Now all you do is stare at the floor.
Oh dear Penis,
I don’t like you anymore.
The Mad Bastardo by the Scared Weird Little Guys
The recent “Another Postcard” by The Barenaked Ladies is about a man who keeps receiving chimpanzees in the mail, and his varied reactions to the idea of having a whole bunch of chimps running around in his house.
Jorge Ben Jor, an incredible Brazilian songwriter and singer, has a little ditty about the algal species Spiro gyra. It’s got a fun and bouncy tune, and I’ve caught myself singing it in the shower more than once.
Spiro giro
E spiro gyra, e spiro gyra.
E um bichinho bonito verdinho que da na agua…
Actually, you’re pretty close. I just happen to have the lyrics to it, in a book of astronomy songs that got passed out at a planetarium conference a few years back.
My first thought opening the thread was “Holding Down a D” by Australian group Hunters and Collectors. It’s quite clearly about trying very hard not to vomit after drinking too much beer. Those with strong constitutions click here
If we’re thinking of songs about unlikely celebrities, how about “Alec Eiffel,” by the Pixies?
One of my favorite novelty songs is The Great Smoke-Off, by Shel Silverstein. It’s about a contest between the world’s fastest joint roller and the world’s fastest joint smoker.
Saw one the other day called “Old Moldy Dough”, never heard it though.
I wrote a song about wanting to dress up puppies in lederhosen…
…and it goes on like that.
Funny what a dare and 30 minutes with a mic and a piano can create eh?
The mp3 file is here if you want to give it a go.