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Thread #2582 Message #10686
Posted By: Jack
18-Aug-97 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: Parody Folk Circle I
Subject: Parody Folk Circle I
There are plenty of these in the DT, but I'm always interested in new ones. I especially encourage people to share funny songs that they have created themselves or have learned from local people.
I'll start out with a parody of Northwest Passage called
FAR EAST KITCHEN - Parodist Unknown
(Chorus) Oh for food sublime I would dine at Far East Kitchen And See the Hand of Welcome Reaching from the Maitre D' Take the new Red Line past the coop and beat the traffic And feast at Far East Kitchen, that's for me
Westward from the Davis Square 'tis there it's said to lie This tea house of the orient to which so many fly Seeking Peking duckling, leaving well gnawed broken bones And an oft-remembered cairn of leechee stones
(Repeat Chorus)
Through the night throughout the meal we feasted on the best Kimcee, moo goo gai pan, mapo tofu and the rest Steaming plates arrive before us, empty plates removed again This heartiest of eaters satiated in the end