Pun filled song Yassur Arafat

Subject: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 12:39 AM

I wrote the originl version of this about 5 years ago. It's undergone periodic revisions as current events changed. I just finished an updated version by adding a third verse. No insults are intended and I hope no offense is taken. It starts off silly, gets serious in the third verse and ends up silly again.

The melody is sort of like, "Yes Sir, that's my baby" with a different middle 8.

YASSUH ARAFAT

Don't try to make sense out of it, there isn't any (except for the third verse)it's just a bunch of Arabic, Hebrew and Egyptian names strung together read it out loud

I

Yas-Suh, Arafat, Nasser Anwahr Sadat
Yas-Suh Yasir Arafat
Oh
We don't have a Tutenkhamen, our love affair Akhnaton
Yas-suh, Yassir Arafat
Oh
Cleopatra Ptolemy Fahrouk you baby, Ramses
Hot ship's leavin' it's Hotshepshut
Sailing away for Pharo-seas (or Pharisees)

Nefertiri cry, sis, Isis
A cup of Khadafi, then "Goodbye Sis"
Yas-suh, Yassir Arafat.

II
Yas-Suh and Mrs. "Yas-m'
Between Yemen me's a chasm
Yas-suh Yassir Arafat
Mo-Ses Noah No sir
A-Bra-Ham aint kosher
Yas Suh Yassir Arafat.

Ayotolla you, you Ptolemy come in from Bah'Rain
PSYCHIATRIST IN BAGHDAD ALL KNOW HUSSEIN

Oman hear me cryin
Where ther's shootin' Moshe Dayan
Yas-Suh Yassir Arafat.

III
O-Sama these days,Bin Laden,
Ghandi find what cave you're hid'n inYas-Sir Yas-Sir that's a fact
A trash Bin-'s a-waitin'
There'll be no hesitatin Yes Sir Yas-suh that's a fact.

You changed the skyline, what a shame
Now you'll pay for all that pain

Kabul cuties, doff them burkhas
Guys can shave and show a smirk-uh
Yas-suh, Yassir Arafat.


I WANT IT UNDERSTOOD THAT I MEAN NO DISRESPECT TO MY mUSLIM COUNTRYMEN. Of all the organized religions that I'm at all familiar with, my Islamic bretheren take their obligations more to heart than any others.

ALLAH AKHBAR, I believe it too. God is indeed great.

A Salaam, Shalome, Amor Vincet Omnia.

Jody Gibson

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 12:47 AM

P.S. to previous post.

Copyright 2001 Rose Island Music, Newport, RI , but you can use it if you want to.

If you want this for the digitrad, feel free.
Jody

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 04:42 AM

You are a very, very strange person. :)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 11:52 PM

yes I am.And so ae you, "King of the Wolves" Ha Ha.

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 01:20 AM

I wrote the same song back a few years---only had to sing a few lines to make the point and then I'd go on to another short parody. Never did get very far into it at all...

"Yassur, he's my Arafat,
No, sir, I don't mean chicken fat,
Yah, sir, he's my Arafat now.

Then I might sing:

"I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a Bible,
And make believe it came from God..."

Then maybe:

"Once I did the wife of a millionaire..."

Then:

Richard Nixon's the name and I won every damn campaign,
Stonewalled congress's game and tore up the tapes again,
In the summer of '74 they were angry and demanding more,
By August 8th I had to tell
Because a tape can remember all too well...

On the night that they drove old Dickie down,
All the people were cheering
On the night that they drove old Dickie down,
Dan Rather was jeering,
He went "Naaaa naaaa na na na na...

Then:

"Yiddish is a loving tongue..."

and so on

and so on

------Art Thieme

It was a real schmaltzy song I thought.

Sorry, L. Rex----I was first. I've not had a gig since June 6th, 1997 and I sang it for at least 5 years before that---all over.

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 01:26 AM

Did it a few times on the radio.

and:

a song called, "Nobody Blows You When You're Down And Out". But hat's another story...

Art

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 05:56 PM

Art those are hilarious. A sense of humour PLUS skill is a rare combination.

Rick

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 08:01 PM

Ric, What do you think of my pun0filled ditty.?

Art, I liked your songs a lots, but it aint the same song.
Love and Kisses, Jody Gibson

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: marty D
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 03:03 PM

Art's dittys are concise, satirical and funny. Your's just don't make me laugh Crankee. But that's no big deal, I can't write on that level either, and I'd like to! I'm happy to leave it to the masters. He even makes them scan.

marty

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: Art Thieme
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 06:12 PM

Ah, Marty, me thinks you are quite a discerning person. ;-)

Art

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 11:07 PM

Oh well.

But then, Marty, can you pronounce the names?: I'm Shattered. but if you read it out loud, it does scan.

Subject: RE: Pun filled song Yassur Arafat
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 10:58 PM

so there