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Thread #2854   Message #13136
Posted By: Ferrara
25-Sep-97 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: parodies sung by Homer and Jethro
Subject: RE: Homer and Jethro
Thanks, everyone who has added to this! It's great, and it's really good to get some of these lyrics. By the way, my memory of the last verse of "Hound Dog in the Window" is a little different. I remember it like this (but I'm notorious for grinding up songs in the folk processor, so use your own judgment....):

How much is that hound dog in the window,
The one with the basketball nose on his face?
They call it a basketball nose 'cause
It dribbles all over the place.

There was a simpleminded and very popular song called "Winchester Cathedral," a repetitive instrumental with a do-wop chorus going "Winchester Cathedral na na na na na na" at random intervals. It may have had more lyrics, but if so they made no impression on me. H&J put out a parody which contained this couplet: "Winchester Cathedral, You're doing us dirt; They finally wrote one That we couldn't hurt!"