Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies

Subject: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parody
From: GUEST,Annie
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 12:59 PM

Looking for a good natured parody for a 12 step program. Tune should be easily recognized in US and hopefully evoke the desired response of laughter and good will. Any suggestions?

Annie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From:
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 01:37 PM

I'm going off to look further, but a member of the "New England Christmastide Musicians" based in Rhode Island has an original one that's hysterical to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas.

V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From:
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 01:47 PM

Here's the latest CD by the musician who wrote the 12 Steps song...


Jon Campbell's CE

V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Annie
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 06:48 PM

Thanks Vixen! Tried to locate the lyrics. No luck yet.

Annie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From:
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 09:09 AM

You might try to get an email address for and write to Jon Campbell. I saw him with the Christmastide folks back in December (no surprise there...) and he's quite a cool character. I don't know him, or his email address, but the song is great--

one damp basement
two bumperstickers
three cups of coffee
four ????
SER-REN-IT-TEE
etc...

or something like that. I'm definitely not sure I recall it right.

V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 12:20 AM

Click here for an ad for a tape cassette that contains "12 Steps Of X-Mas" by Jon Campbell.

Click here for an ad for a concert and CD called "The 12 Steps of Christmas and Other Holiday Fare."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: GUEST,Owlkat
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 12:29 AM

Hey Annie,
Sounds like a great idea.
I just started working on one.
I'll let you know when I am done

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From:
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 08:58 AM

Wow!

Mudcats are an infinite resource of information!

Thanks, Jim, for finding that cassette!

V

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Annie
Date: 12 Apr 03 - 12:30 AM

All:

Thanks so much for helping! I'll try to order the CD from the info Jim provided and I look forward to Owlkat's composition. I too tried to write a couple but couldn't get beyond lackluster.

Annie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Annie
Date: 24 Apr 03 - 09:36 PM

Hey Owlkat, got anything yet?

Annie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: GUEST,John
Date: 24 Apr 03 - 11:59 PM

The first 11 steps can be summed up in the 1st verse. Ignore them. They don't mean shit other than to try to beat you down into a miserable parody of what you once were. This is the funny verse.
In the second verse you just STOP doing whatever it is that you perceive as the problem. This is the verse with the moral.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Annie
Date: 25 Apr 03 - 09:32 PM

Yea, John, I felt that way as recently as this morning, but I think I'm back. It feels good to be living in the solution again. It's hard being human. Sometimes, I hate it. I would go with the first verse being about the first step and it would be a jingle that you love to hate and you could just kill the next person who walks by humming it - and now you can't get it out of your head!!!! Anyway, then I think the next verse would be about the next 11 steps and funny. Lucky are we who laugh at ourselves for we are always amused.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Louie Roy
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 07:43 PM

Annie are you looking for the 12 days after christmas?If so I have the words Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 12 Step Parodies
From: Annie
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 08:40 PM

Thanks to these posts, I already tracked it down. It's on a great CD by the way. I haven't written anything yet. The inspiration moved on to the next thing whatever that was. In time. In time.
Annie