Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Dec 00 - 04:50 PM My brother in law, then a military nurse with the RAMC, along with some "friends" once dressed an anatomy model up as Santa, stuck it in a wheelchair and wheeled it round the German hospital they were working in at the time, singing carols. When they got to the Psychiatric ward they sang 'God rest ye, Jerry Mentalmen'.... needless to say they were on guard duty all over Christmas.... LTS |
Subject: Lyr Add: WHILE SHEPHERDS WASHED THEIR SOCKS BY... From: Snuffy Date: 03 Dec 00 - 01:20 PM Yet another version - we used to sing: While shepherds washed their socks by night All seated round the tub The angel of the Lord came down And they began to scrub. Not forgetting: Good King Wenceslas knocked a bobby senseless Right through Woolworth's window. Up came a copper with a rusty gun "Right, you beggar, I'll make you run" Wassail! V |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: dick greenhaus Date: 03 Dec 00 - 11:11 AM If you search DigiTrad for @parody @Xmas, you'll get 20 hits. For a variant of Beecham's Pills, try a search for Ovaltine. |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Banjer Date: 03 Dec 00 - 10:22 AM Yes,there are some really good parodies in here so far. I have to wonder though, is Catspaw telling us more than we really ever wanted to know about him? But hey, I guess if it's a good fit and there is nothing to put into a bind then what the heck, if it feels good.....etc., etc..... |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: reggie miles Date: 03 Dec 00 - 09:55 AM Hey John! Happy Holidaze to you and Anna! |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: John P Date: 03 Dec 00 - 08:19 AM I can only remember the first line of this. Does anyone know any more? It was fairly popular around where I grew up in Michigan. Good King Peptic Juice looked out At the feast I'd eaten P.S. I see there are some other folks from Seattle posting to this thread. Liland, are you at Fremont Baptist? I spend my days a couple of blocks over at Dusty Strings. Small world, huh? Reggie, is that you? Bluesman, formerly of Strangers With Candy? Stewart, I liked the Unitarian song -- it reminds me of the old joke that says the only time God gets mentioned in the Unitarian church is when the janitor accidently kicks the mop bucket over. John Peekstok (of Telynor), Seattle |
Subject: Lyr Add: OH COME GET A FACE-FULL (parody) From: GUEST,Reggie Miles Date: 03 Dec 00 - 07:24 AM A little ditty I whipped up in honor of the Christmas feast. Sung to the tune of Oh Come All Ye Faithful- OH COME GET A FACE-FULL Oh come get a face-full. Christmas dinner's ready. Oh come eat, oh come eat, the turkey is done. Potatoes and dressing, all smothered with gravy. Eggnog and Christmas cookies, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, eat until your pants scream, too tiiiiight, no more! |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE CHRISTMAS FOOD HYGIENE CAROL From: Sooz Date: 03 Dec 00 - 05:40 AM Here's my favourite: THE CHRISTMAS FOOD HYGIENE CAROL ©John Stothard and lan Clarke 1987 Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Steven Ever since he's been in bed with his insides heaving He didn't cook his turkey right, he let the bugs keep growing It didn't cook right through you see, and now it's got him go-o-oing God rest you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, Though some of you may well be ill soon after Christmas day. If you don't thaw your meat right out, the bugs will make you pay, Oh Ignore our warnings if you dare, if you dare, Oh, ignore our warnings if you dare. On the worst day of Christmas my true love gave to me Food Poisoning, a dose of trots, pains in the tum A very sore head, And a week in the infirmary. Dashing through the snow, rushing to the loo Through the house we go, heaving all the way It really isn't fair, if only we had known If the trifle had been in the fridge, the bugs would not have grown. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way Oh how cruel it is to have the runs on Christmas day Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way Use the fridge to keep food cool, stay safe on Christmas day When you cook your Christmas fare, please follow the instructions If you don't you may end up with terrible constrictions May we remind you one and all that care with food is vital Ignore our warnings if you will, the danger's intestinal. Take heed and have an excellent festive season! |
Subject: Lyr Add: CHRISTMAS IN VIETNAM / JUNGLE BELLS From: Banjer Date: 03 Dec 00 - 03:45 AM If my HTML works right this should show up as verse and chorus. Otherwise please use the imagination and sort it out.
Dashing through the mud, in a Jeep that should be junk,
CHORUS: Jungle bells, mortar shells, VC in the grass,
Christmas time is here, as everybody knows,
The moral of this song, it's plain as it can be, |
Subject: Lyr Add: WALKING 'ROUND IN WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR^^^ From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Dec 00 - 01:37 AM WALKING 'ROUND IN WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR (Tune: Walking In a Winter Wonderland) Lacy things the wife is missin' Didn't ask for her permission I'm wearin' her clothes, silk pantyhose Walkin' round in woman's underwear In the store there's a teddy With little straps like spagetti It hold me in tight, like handcuffs at night Walkin' round in woman's underwear In the office there's a guy named Melvin He pretends that I am Murphy Brown He'll say are you ready, I'll say whoa man Let's wait until the wife is out of town Later on if you wanna We can dress like Madonna Put on some eyeshade and join the parade Walkin' round in woman's underwear Walkin' round in woman's underwear Walkin' round in woman's underwear ----A personal favorite. Spaw ^^^ [grin] |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Ebbie Date: 03 Dec 00 - 01:16 AM Liland, since Bill hasn't got back to us yet, in context it looks like the word in both cases should be 'art'. Ebbie |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Bill D Date: 02 Dec 00 - 09:12 PM and who remembers Walt Kelly taking many weeks of manipulating story lines in "Pogo" to build up to the punch line... "yes, Santa Claus, there IS a Virginia"? |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: GUEST,JennieGagain Date: 02 Dec 00 - 09:06 PM Sorry - the third line should have read A bar of Sunlight soap came down Fingers typing quicker than brain thinking... JennieG |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: GUEST,JennieGwhohasnowresethercookie.. Date: 02 Dec 00 - 09:05 PM G'day all, We used to sing this here in Oz when I was a fair bit younger: While shepherds washed their socks by night All seated on the ground A bar of Sunlight soap And bubbles floated round My kids had one to "Deck the Halls" too, but I can't remember it all - something to do with burning the school down! Bah humbug JennieG |
Subject: Lyr Add: GOD REST YE UNITARIANS (parody) From: Stewart Date: 02 Dec 00 - 07:31 PM Here's one for all you Unitarians. GOD REST YE UNITARIANS God rest ye Unitarians, let nothing you dismay, Glad tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact, There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angel song, Glad tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact, Much of our Christmas custom comes from Persia and from Greece, Glad tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact, Cheers, S. in Seattle Unitarian parodies: https://www.uua.org/files/documents/stew-dev/singing_green.pdf -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: John Routledge Date: 02 Dec 00 - 06:53 PM While shepherds washed their socks by night - All seated round the pot - The angel of the Lord came down - And scoffed the blooming lot. To the tune While shepherds watched their flocks by night. Happy childhood !! Geordie Broon |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: sophocleese Date: 02 Dec 00 - 06:38 PM Chorus for The First Noel
No ale, no beer, no wine, no stout, That's all I was taught, its possible there is more but my older brothers wouldn't teach it to me. |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Zebedee Date: 02 Dec 00 - 04:57 PM "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away" Not great, not amusing, but a childhood memory... |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Haruo Date: 02 Dec 00 - 04:35 PM Here in Seattle we just got through the anniversary of our WTO uproar with a minimum of renewed violence, and the pastor (I'm posting from the church computer, we're Hanging the Greens today) who is a Bush Republican type was just singing snatches (all he knows) of a "Silver Bells" parody that includes the line "it's rioting time in the city". He says it dates from last year. Anybody know the whole thing? Liland |
Subject: bill/sables, what's that other word? From: Haruo Date: 02 Dec 00 - 04:31 PM Thanks for your version of Hark the herald angels sing Beechams pills are just the thing but what is the word before "aspire" in How can man to are aspire When his soul is not on fire, ... and How can man to atr aspire when his hole is not on fire Eh? Liland |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: John P Date: 02 Dec 00 - 04:29 PM I have a hazy memory of singing this in high school: "Angels, we have heard, get high They get high, so why can't I?" We never got around to finishing it . . . |
Subject: Lyr Add: SANTA IS RETIRING (parody) From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 02 Dec 00 - 12:48 PM SANTA IS RETIRING
They passed a law at Yule Tide
The women's groups were saying
It ain't fair, it ain't right
They won't give him a pension
Of all the cut-backs it's the last straw
Cause Santa is retiring and they won't be rehiring |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: sophocleese Date: 02 Dec 00 - 11:04 AM We three kings of Orient are Smoking on a trick cigar.....BANG!!
We two kings of Orient are
I a king of Orient are |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: MARINER Date: 02 Dec 00 - 06:26 AM To my mind the best Christmas parody of all time is Frank Kelly's ( Father Jack of Fr.Ted fame) parody on the Twelve Days of Christmas called I think, Christmas Countdown. It actually topped the charts in Ireland on its first release and also charted on subsequent releases. I don't know if its still available but if it is,get and listen, its probably one of the funniest parodies ever put on vinyl. Mariner |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: bill\sables Date: 02 Dec 00 - 05:43 AM My spelling is shit the above words are supposed to read "the one you are probably thinking of " |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: bill\sables Date: 02 Dec 00 - 05:40 AM Hi Liland the pone you are probablt thinking of is one I learned at school but not from the teachers Hark the herald angels sing Beechams pills are just the thing Move ye gently meek and mild Two for an adult one for a child Regular administration just the thing for constipation How can man to are aspire When his soul is not on fire How can man to atr aspire when his hole is not on fire Bill |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Haruo Date: 02 Dec 00 - 01:52 AM And my dad always sang something that went "Hark the herald angels sing, Beecham's pills are just the thing! One for man and two for child, oh, they work so meek and mild." (I don't recall that it went beyond that point, and it's not all that exciting as it stands but may have possibilities as a base on which to build.) He was a Baptist minister whose musical career began as a high-school student at church camp singing a falsetto "Bird in a Gilded Cage". See recent thread on Tom Lehrer for link to his Xmas outrage. Liland |
Subject: RE: Christmas Parodies From: Haruo Date: 02 Dec 00 - 01:47 AM I like Deck Us All (which is in the Digitrad). Liland |
Subject: Christmas Parodies From: Banjer Date: 02 Dec 00 - 01:14 AM Ah it's that time of year again! It's beginnig to look a lot like Christmas (there's a song in there somewhere) You folks in the Northern lands have snow on the ground to tell you that Christmas time is almost here. In the South we gauge how close Christmas is by how many storage trailers are stacked up behind our local Wal-Mart. This is also the time of year that many of us start singing some of the Christmas carols we learned in our youth. I'm talkin the really good ones, not the goody two shoes versions that we had to learn in school. One that comes to mind is the old favorite from the time when Alvin and Theodore were making their presence known: Chipmunks roasting on an open fire Jack Frost picking at his nose Santa came down the wrong chimmeny again That's the way shit goes.... Do any others come to mind? Share them with us all in the spirit of the season... |
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