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Lyr Add: Islip (parody of Kilkelly)

16 Mar 00 - 09:08 AM (#196032)
Subject: Lyr Add: ISLIP (parody of KILKELLY)
From: GUEST, Anon strikes again.

Firstly, I had to do it. The risk of a song being parodied is directly proportional to the emotional seriousness of the original. It's why we make jokes about death, injury, and in-laws.

Secondly, I don't think anybody's ever gonna sing it, but it might be amusing to see once.
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ISLIP, LONG ISLAND

Islip Long Island, 19 and 60. My dear loving daughter Estelle:
I hope that this small, insignificant letter finds you happy and well.
I hope San Francisco is all that you dreamed of, although it's a long way from here.
I hope that you watch out for bad boys and beatniks. There's a lot in this world you should fear.
Your brother's moved close to his girlfriend, so he says, but I fear they are living in sin.
Please don't concern yourself. I'm doing splendid but I can't wait to see you again.

Islip Long Island, 19 and 70. My dear loving daughter Estelle:
Say hi to Moondog. He looks like a nice boy, but with all that hair I can't tell.
Does his mother know that he has hair like a hippy? I hope you have checked him for lice.
Oh well, never mind. I'm just being a mother. I'm sure that he's really quite nice.
And the wife of your brother, I don't think she likes me. She wants him to move to Bayonne.
Your room is exactly the same way you left it. Anytime you want, you could move home.

Islip, Long Island, 19 and 80. Dear daughter Estelle and son John:
I'm sorry to give you the very sad news that your father, that bastard, is gone.
He moved out last weekend to live with some floozy. She's skinny and has curly blond hair.
I'm a shame he decided to trade you poor mother for a pretty young head filled with air.
But please, not to worry. I'm sure I'll recover. At least that's what my doctor has said,
But I hope you're still planning to move back to Islip Before your dear mother is dead.

Islip, Long Island, 19 and 90. My dear loving daughter Estelle:
I'll be fifty-one this coming Sunday and my colon is giving me hell.
I just mentioned my birthday in case you'd forgotten. I know you're too busy to call.
Thanks for the pictures. It's the only reason I know what the kids look like at all.
Except for the clothes from the Salvation Army, they're lovely young women and men.
Are you thinking you might bring them here for a visit? It would be nice to see you again.

Islip, Long Island, 19 and 92. This is your dear brother John.
I'm sorry that I didn't write sooner to tell you that mother has moved on.
She was living with some guy she met in college. I think he is just thirty three.
She sold the house and closed all the accounts and they're off on a traveling spree.
And she sent us a letter from a country in Europe, and some photos they took on a cruise.
If you ask me, she has lost it completely and the young man's affection's a ruse.
And it's funny the way she kept talking about you. She said something to you at the end.
She said, "Tell Estelle you get one chance at life. Maybe someday I'll see her again."^^

16 Mar 00 - 09:20 AM (#196037)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison

Loved it Anon

slainte

alison

16 Mar 00 - 09:22 AM (#196039)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jacob B

Dear Anon,

It's fun.

Of all the threads on Mudcat, this is the one that I knew I had to print off immediately and show my wife.

And I expect we'll probably sing it through, once.

16 Mar 00 - 06:09 PM (#196356)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

Dear anon, I find your parody highly entertaining, and so have several of my friends. One of them would like to publish it. If you are willing to shed even part of your cloak of anonymity, show your face here, or send me a personal message.
Blessings,
Barbara

16 Mar 00 - 06:26 PM (#196363)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Amos

I agree! And it weren't even I!

16 Mar 00 - 06:38 PM (#196370)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

This "Anon" thing is starting to become a habit. Just did it to be silly this time.

16 Mar 00 - 07:16 PM (#196385)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison

Jeri,

I want to do it too.... can I huh? please?.......

slainte

alison

16 Mar 00 - 07:23 PM (#196389)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Ebbie

That is a fun one!

16 Mar 00 - 07:37 PM (#196394)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen

Jeri--

It's not a dumb parody, it's wonderful. And actually moving, if I may be so bold as to say so. Thanks for doing it. And it will be sung...by me, for one, at next week's Singtime Frolics in Oregon.

Aloha,
Mark

16 Mar 00 - 07:46 PM (#196399)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

You do that, Mark, and Meryle will join you. I just sent it to her. Me too, maybe.
He's right Jeri. YOu done good.
Blessings,
Barbara

16 Mar 00 - 07:51 PM (#196403)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Amos

Jeri:

I have to request that you turn in that bushel under which you have been modestly hiding yer songwriting talent, to the Keeper of the Songbook, forthwith and immediately, as a confiscated contraband Bushel. This is a genuinely excellent talent, you. Had we but world enough and time....

Warm regards,

A

16 Mar 00 - 09:49 PM (#196493)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

Uhm, Jeri, one quibble. I thought I'd make 51 into 61 at least, since otherwise

1990
- 51
______
1939 DOB
and if she gets married at 16, that makes it
+16
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1955
and that will give her a daughter leaving home for the wilds of SF in 1960 at the age of 5.
Sixty-one works about right, tho maybe not for doing the continent with a 33yr old student. At least she dies happy, right?
Blessings,
Barbara

16 Mar 00 - 10:10 PM (#196510)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Oh, picky, picky, picky! :-) I actually thought about the age and thought I had it right, but I'm very mathematically challenged. Yes please change 51 to 61.

Thanks for the compliments. Please print, sing, and share. And Alison - I'm imagining you, a woman raised in Ireland, living in Oz, doing a Long Island accent...

Cheers!

16 Mar 00 - 10:20 PM (#196521)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: MMario

60 plus and 30's? I know a couple of couples who are 50's and 20's, so sounds about right.....Jeri, the song is hysterical in it's own right AND as a parody....THANK YOU!

16 Mar 00 - 10:21 PM (#196523)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Dan

Great work Jeri! And, Barbara, you seem to be very on top of things too. I'll be adding this to my repetoire.

16 Mar 00 - 10:56 PM (#196554)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison

I'll be changing the name of the Island to an Aussie one if that's OK with you.... then the Aussies might understand me better......

slainte

alison

17 Mar 00 - 07:59 AM (#196693)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Alison, it doesn't have to be an island - anything that fits the rhythm. In fact - "Sydney, Australia" works, but I don't know what you'd do with "Bayonne."

17 Mar 00 - 09:31 AM (#196721)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Alice

excellent job, Jeri. A gem.

17 Mar 00 - 10:13 AM (#196732)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Arkie

Jeri, it works from top to bottom. I'll never sing it because I couldn't remember all the words, but I loved it anyway and will pass it on to someone who might sing it. Thanks! A

17 Mar 00 - 11:27 AM (#196761)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Seamus Kennedy

Jeri. Great parody! I've recorded Kilkelly, and sing it in shows, and I'd love to start doing this one. I do parodies of Country Roads, and the Streets of London, and as I get older I find myself losing track of whether I'm singing the original or the parody, and once or twice I've jumped back and forth between them until the "Huh?" from the audience brought me back to where I was supposed to be. All the best. Seamus

17 Mar 00 - 11:36 PM (#197060)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: katlaughing

Well done, Jeri! Hysterical with such an element of truth! Although completely different, it reminds me of the irony in Cat Stevens' old song "Cat's in the Cradle".

Oi! An' I just learned Killkelly!!So, when do we hear you sing it in HearMe?

18 Mar 00 - 09:11 PM (#197441)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen

Kat, I understand your feline leanings, but wasn't that Harry Chapin?
Mark

18 Mar 00 - 11:26 PM (#197502)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: katlaughing

Uhoh, you are right, Mark! I coulda sworn it was that other "Cat".Thanks. **BG**

01 Jun 00 - 10:49 PM (#237216)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison

I jsut sang the "sydney australia" version in hearme... went down very well Jeri....

great song

slainte

alison

05 Jun 00 - 10:09 PM (#238651)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: TonyK

Very good,Jeri. You should write more.

06 Jun 00 - 02:05 AM (#238798)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Amergin

Jeri,

That is quite lovely. I want to see more of your work.

Amergin

06 Jun 00 - 01:25 PM (#238979)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: SINSULL

My Dad lives in Islip and just took off for Florida with a lady he met online. I bought him the computer for his 86th birthday. This will be printed and sent south. Hilarious. SS

06 Jun 00 - 01:28 PM (#238982)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

I actually don't write much - usually just one-verse sillty things like:

For two years now I've tried to grow a lawn that's lush and green
But though I tried, my grass just died 'till only sand was seen
But there's something new this year to view, if you know what I mean
Oh the crabgrass looks like hell, but it's growing

07 Jun 00 - 11:12 AM (#239358)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Susan-Marie

Jeri - I'm flying to Islip at the end of the month to see my in-laws in Huntington and sing them this song....

07 Jun 00 - 11:34 AM (#239373)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: DADGBE

Parodies are wonderfully valuable for giving us glimpses into ourselves and the culture. This one's a GEM, Jeri!
Hey Barbara, are you thinking what I'm thinking that this would be a great addition to the San Francisco Folk Music Club's newsletter song page?
Jeri, do you want to have it submitted?

07 Jun 00 - 07:21 PM (#239630)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

I gave it to Faith for Sing Out, Ray, and shipped it to both you and Kay, I thought, back in March. Kay liked it but said that the tune was not familiar enough, so we needed to run it too. One of you said that we probably couldn't get permission to run the tune to Killkelly. Does any of this sound familiar?
What's the name of that herb that helps with memory?
I think Jeri's parody would be great on the song pages.
Blessings,
Barbara

07 Jun 00 - 09:06 PM (#239668)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison

Rosemary.... for remembrance????

slainte

alison

28 Feb 01 - 07:42 PM (#408402)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Well, I finally have my fifteen minutes of fame. MaryMac reported last night on Mudcat Radio that the song is in the current issue of SingOut!

Interesting - someone on a newsgroup I read pointed out that the tune to Kilkelly (at least I may be spelling it right now!) is virtually the same as Old Maui, done in 3/4 time.

28 Feb 01 - 07:48 PM (#408403)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: alison

congratulations Jeri....

wait 'til the royalties start rolling in......

slainte

alison

28 Feb 01 - 07:58 PM (#408411)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: MMario

Congrats, Jeri!

01 Mar 01 - 01:52 PM (#408898)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

Cool, Jeri. Faith finally got it in her column? MY Singout hasn't come yet, so I didn't know. Congratulations!
Blessings,
Barbara
Are you in Roll and Go now? If so say Hi to Charlie for me, and ask him about the night the boiler blew up.

01 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM (#408919)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: SINSULL

Jeri,
Congratulations on getting published. My dad lives in Islip. I'll let you know his reaction. Mary

01 Mar 01 - 02:38 PM (#408927)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

No - not in Roll & Go. It's too far to drive for me, and I have absolutely no experience performing. I think they're looking for someone who's likely to commit, not be committed. :-)

I have to find someplace around here that sells SingOut! My subscription ran out at a time when I didn't have the money to renew it. That'll teach me!

01 Mar 01 - 03:00 PM (#408945)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C

Jeri,

It's never too far to Roll&Go, and if you're not careful you'll find us rolled up on your front crabgrass in six-part harmony. Great song! Looks nice in my nice fresh copy of Sing Out!

01 Mar 01 - 05:10 PM (#409019)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

Yawl should get a membership Charlie. It don't cost nothin'. Nifty song, hey?
Blessings,
Barbara

01 Mar 01 - 05:26 PM (#409032)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Charlie - when did you see my lawn!?! I wish there were a lush, flowering variety of crabgrass.

I ought to go over to the songwriting thread. This was just going to be a silly song with not much of a point. The last verse sort of wrote itself. Said "Hey, I'm turning out just as sad as the original. Poor old lady, all by herself...DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"

01 Mar 01 - 06:46 PM (#409104)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Naemanson

JERI! Congratulations! I opened my copy of Sing Out! and there was this great song. I read through it and laughed and admired it and completely missed the name of the author! Charlie mentioned it was yours when he called me earlier. DOH!

He and I will be at the press room tomorrow night. Email me if you don't get your own copy of Sing Out! and I'll pick one up at Bookland for you.

Obligatory shout... CHARLIE! JOIN UP!

And Roll & Go is looking for someone with a great voice, commitment and who should probably be committed. I think, Jeri, you would qualify for some of that.

01 Mar 01 - 07:19 PM (#409121)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Brett, if you can find a copy, I'll pay yez for it. I don't know if I'll make it to the Press Room. Gonna try, but I seem to have come down with the flu, or some similar type of viral thingie.

01 Mar 01 - 07:36 PM (#409133)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-c

Jeri, with respect to your crabgrass: we have eyes everywhere. A Roll&Go gathers no moss! Of course we may have just sifted through an earlier part of this fascinating thread.

01 Mar 01 - 08:26 PM (#409155)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Naemanson

I'm truly sorry to hear you may not make it. I hope you feel better soon.

I realized earlier while in the car that the magazine may not be on the shelves yet. I will check. If you don't make it to the Press Room I'll give the magazine (if I can find one) to Tom and Linn.

Get well soon.

Brett

02 Mar 01 - 01:35 PM (#409662)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: KathWestra

Congrats, Jeri. Good song, and great to see it in my newly arrived copy of SingOut!

And feel better quickly, please. Kathy

02 Mar 01 - 01:42 PM (#409668)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Thanks for the kind words about the song.

I'm not dead yet, although it's close, and I'm considering dragging my poor, virus-wracked body, with its 120 degree fever and throat like sandpapered liver, down to the session. I will try not to hit anyone when I pass out.

02 Mar 01 - 02:53 PM (#409725)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C

Damn! Now I've got to relearn "The Face on the Bar Room Floor." ;}

02 Mar 01 - 04:02 PM (#409758)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen

Mazel tov, Jeri! Now you have to teach everybody how to pronounce Islip.

Aloha,
Mark

02 Mar 01 - 09:12 PM (#409943)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

Like me, hey, Mark?
Well, I'm from Michigan, and I've given up on doing Jeri's parody. It's wonderful, but I don't have the background for it (I didn't know how to say 'Bayonne', either). And sounding like you're from that part of the world makes it so much better.
Blessings,
Barbara

02 Mar 01 - 10:09 PM (#409974)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen

ICE-lip. Bay-OWN.

Mark, in HEE-low.

02 Mar 01 - 10:09 PM (#409975)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Islip: eye-slip (or ice-lip)
Bayonne: bay-own
...or do like Alison did, and change the place names to fit your location.

Anyhow, had a good session and I don't feel so bad. Thanks to Kath and Naemanson for wishing I felt better - musta worked. (And I should have said thanks earlier.)

02 Mar 01 - 10:10 PM (#409977)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Mark Cohen

Musta beat you by a millisecond or two, Jeri!

02 Mar 01 - 10:32 PM (#409995)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Ooh...that is so Twilight Zone!

02 Mar 01 - 10:43 PM (#410001)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Alice

Barbara, you can do my parody of Kilkelly, "Roundup Montana". It's in the forum somewhere.

Alice

03 Mar 01 - 01:33 AM (#410077)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Barbara

Yee haw! I kin say "Roundup" jes fine, thank yew ma'm. I'll go have a look, Alice.
Blessings,
Barbara

03 Mar 01 - 05:45 AM (#410107)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Naemanson

You are right, Jeri, it was a good session. Too bad you had to leave early. And about your comment last night that you only know three songs. You are hereby assigned a task to learn a fourth song for next session! And another song for the next session etc. Now, I don't make it every Friday so you can cheat and only learn a song for those sessions that I will attend but you'll never know which ones those are will you? Thus, you'll have to keep learning. *BG*

For those 'catters who don't know, Jeri has a strong clear voice that is just right for unaccompanied singing. We need to help her learn more songs and even find someone to play along with her so we can hear what she sounds like with an accompanist. I believe she'll be great there too. Any volunteers?

03 Mar 01 - 08:46 AM (#410160)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Jeri

Thanks Brett. I feel like crap today, but I'm glad I went. Sometimes they have accompanied me - usually on acapella songs. ;-) I know more than 3 songs, but either they're not suitable for a session or I'm in danger of killing them with over-singing. Maybe I ought to start a thread asking for suggestions...

03 Mar 01 - 04:28 PM (#410411)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

Hey, Jeri, it was such fun to see your name in Singout! I haven't had much time for Mudcatting so I missed this thread- both times!
Another song you've shared, but didn't write, is Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here. I've been having some fun with that one.

09 Mar 01 - 01:34 AM (#413789)
Subject: RE: Dumb Parody Add: Killkelly/Islip
From: Joe Offer

Hey, my Sing Out! didn't arrive until today. I have to say I was duly impressed to see that Faith put TWO Mudcatter songs in her column. Steve Suffet is relatively new here, but if you click on his name, you can see he's made a significant contribution to the information posted at the 'Cat. His song in Sing Out! is an inspiring variation of "Wasn't That a Time."
-Joe Offer-