Mad Magazine parodies

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Racking My Brain...
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 04:53 PM

...for the rest of the lyrics to this:

"We've got tommy guns that fire
Thirty bullets at a clip
We've got automatic rifles and
A shotgun that's a pip...."

I forget the rest...

It was called "There is Nothing Like a Frame"
(Nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a frame.)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Michael
Date: 20 Mar 11 - 11:44 AM

A MAD parody I memorised (50 yrs back):

I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little bathroom down the passage
Where 19 fought each dawn;
My 13 brother hated me
My sisters thought the same
Ma never called me in to eat -
She didn't know my name.

I remember, I remember
The joys my schooling gave;
How I was late for infant class
Because I had to shave.
I think that I shall ne'er forget
A little girl named Sue;
I carried home her books from school:
Her boyfriend told me to.

Does anyone remember MAD's parody of Hiawatha making mittens????

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Taconicus
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 11:06 AM

Michael Jackson's new parody? What, is he writing from beyond the grave?

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,sapphire
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 05:28 PM

anyone know the lyrics to the michael jackson parody of twitter? new issue.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Scot
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 03:25 AM

The "My Fair Ad-Man" spoof had a version of "With a Little Bit o' Luck":

You've never had a clean shave or a haircut
A bigger bum I hope I never see
Your taste is sad in choosing what you wear, but
With a little bit of soap,
With a little bit of soap,
You'll be looking just like him and me.
(CHORUS)
With a little bit, with a little bit,
With a little bit of soap you’ll look like we.

You've got real charcoal staining your grey flannel
I thought those shoes were for a tennis game
If you were on TV, I'd change the channel, but
With a little bit of soap,
With a little bit of soap,
You and Cary Grant will look the same.
(CHORUS)
With a little bit, with a little bit,
With a little bit of soap you'll look the same
With a little bit, with a little bit,
With a little bit of Lifebuoy soap!

A piece on "Up-to-Date Service Songs" had this take on "Anchors Aweigh":

Our taste's absurd, my boys
Our taste's absurd
With girls, our eyesight's blurred
We date pigs by the herd-herd-herd-herd
When on that briny deep
From June 'til May
Practic'ly any creep
Looks like the girl who married JFK!

The entire "Chinese Restaurant Song" went thus:

There's a bright golden glaze on the eggroll
There's a bright golden glaze on the eggroll
The hot egg foo yung really tickles the tongue
The tea's in the pot and the waiter's named Chung

Oh, what a glorious dinner
Oh, what great Moo Goo Gai Pan
We're having twenty-eight courses
Thanks to the family plan.

All the noodles are covered with soy sauce,
All the noodles are covered with soy sauce.
We're feeling no pain
'Cause our plates all contain
A big heaping portion of Sub Gum Chow Mein.

Oh, what a glorious dinner
We'll fill our bellies and then
One hour after we've eaten
We'll all be hungry again,
We'll all be hungry again.

They also did a Wine Lovers' Song to the tune of "Hello Young Lovers." Does anyone have the words to it?

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 08:20 AM

GUEST,iiaammii,

In your 18 Dec 10 - 10:20 PM message, with the Star Trek parody, to what tune was the song to be sung?

I'm open to cries of "How can you not know that???", but I genuinely don't know.

Don

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:04 PM

"Sic transit gloria mundi." Gloria got sick on the bus Monday.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,iiaammii
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 10:20 PM

As your ship goes through the Galaxy
To distant worlds, way past mars
Be sure, that your adventures
do... not kill off your stars!

And you can do it with a crew that's dispensible
A crew that's dispensible...le
Dispensible
Dis pen si ble

Minor actors that we bringon
Perish when they meet a Klingon
One time actors not seen later
Vanish in a planet's crater
Those of us who try to aid them
fail because the script has made them
Dispensible le le
Dis pen si ble!

I have remembered that for 35 years! As well as:
(Sound of Silence)
I'm a doctor out in space
and like I really groove this place
because of all the rare diseases
not like you silly coughs and sneezes

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Capn Kodak
Date: 11 Dec 10 - 03:39 PM

There is a stanza in it that ends...
Quoth the spaniel, "Buy a Ford"

It seems that he had done something... "without a word"
then the "buy a Ford" line followed.
Haven't read it in over 40 years.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,punsterdo
Date: 09 Dec 10 - 11:54 AM

Good King Wenceslas looked out
on the something season
saw five million lacking food
asked what was the reason

Do not worry, he was told
if there's some starvation
It's our way of keeping down
overpopula-a-tion!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 09:02 PM

watchdog in the night -
a stupid beagle you were
watchdog in the night

and later on when i returned to my poor home
how your jaws did foam
you became a snapping dog
a crazy fearless yapping dog

THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAT I DON'T REMEMBER!! :)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Muttley
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 07:46 AM

2 that I recall

To the tune of "Halls of Montezuma" (The U.S. Marine Corps Hymn)

It was a series of parody songs about that year's Presidential Race

From the vaults of Chase Manhattan Bank
To his zillion shares of stocks
we will vote for Rockefeller Boys
'Cause he's richer than Fort Knox
True he'll make a lousy candidate
But we never can forget
He's the only one that's got the bucks   (or was it cash)
To pay off the U.S, Debt


To the tune of "Anchors Aweigh" - parody songs about games and sports

Bishops away my lads, Bishops away
Move up your Knights and Pawns and
Keep your Queen in play-ay-ay-ay
Caslte your King my lad
Don't hesitate
Oops, I guess I told you wrong
He's got you there, he's got you there:
Checkmate

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Greenyanks
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 11:59 PM

Here's one from East Coast Story:

There are three verses in which three politicians are trying to get sit-in demonstrators to move. I know the last two politicians are Ronald Reagan as then Governor of California and President Nixon.

The tune is "Officer Krupke" and here is the Reagan verse:

Dear kindly Ronald Reagan
Forgive us if we're frank
We saw you on the late show
Like man, you really stank
You lost one for the gipper
You bombed in Brother Rat
Sacra-mento
Now look where you're at'

Dear Governor Reagan
We just gotta say
Perhaps your worst performance
Is your one here today
We'd like to oblige you
But one thing is clear
You've laid an egg
So we'll stay here

We'll stay here
We'll stay here
We'll stay here, here, here
We're sincere
When we say we'll stay here!!

I just remembered the third "politican" - it was J. Edgar Hoover
and remember the second part of the verse:

Dear J. Edgar Hoover
We won't go to jail
We've got a real smart lawyer who will free us on bail
Before we're convicted
And tossed in a cell
We'll heist a plane
And join Fidel!

Join Fidel, join Fidel, we will join Fidel
What the hell
We'll split and join Fidel!!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,greenyanks
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 11:42 PM

Here are a few that I remember:

To the song "Georgie Girl"

Hey there, charge account
Going on another shopping spree
Lucky thing for me the store can't see
My bank account's bare
I'm dead broke

Hey there charge account
Buying lots of fancy clothes for free
I've been broke since 63
But what the heck I don't care

But see that salesgirl checking my files
And wrecking my day
She just discovered that I don't pay
She's telling me

Goodbye charge account
Now I have to look like some poor schnook
Taking back the clothes I took
I don't have a thing to wear
I've been stripped bare
Of my charge account

I will post others.................

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies: tropical fish song
From: GUEST,carol
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:32 AM

The tropical fish song had lyrics something like this, sung to the tune of 'My Favorite Things', but i don't know most of the words. Can anyone help?...

Bright colored (guppies?) and (black shiny mollies?)...
(something something) that swim with a splish,
These are just some of my tropical fish.
Then I bought (mantas?) that sting in the water
Deadly (?) that itch for a slaughter
(?) that bite with a Squish!
Now I have many less tropical fish
If you think that
Fish are peaceful
That's an empty wish.
Just put them together and leave them alone,
and then you will have...
Less fish!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,carol
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:02 AM

Does anyone remember the lyrics to the tropical fish song, sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things'?

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:59 AM

I remember MAD also did another parody of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewlidered" in the '60s with fairly similar lyrics; but that one was called "Distressed, Dreary and Dyspeptic."

Can't remember all the words at the moment...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Carolynn
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:35 PM

Another from the 60s, from the same set of songs as the Crest song

I ache again
I shake again
My head feels like it's sure to
Break again

Distressed, dismal and dispondant
Am I

No glee again
In me again
My head feels just like World War 3 again

Distressed, dismal and despondent
Am I

Tho my skull's
Fairly oozing
Still this pain
Cannot last;
There's one thing
That I'm using,
And it works FAST, FAST, FAST!

I cheer again
It's clear again
That Anacin saved
My career again

Distressed dismal and dispondent
No more!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:30 PM

Carolynn:

Here's one from way back in the 60's; Sung to The Jets' Song.

When you use Crest
You are fighting decay
From your first baby tooth
To that last gold inlay

When you use Crest
In your home dental plan
All your teeth stay in shape
Cause it's got flurostan

It passed ev'ry test
In Maine and Indiana
It outcleaned the rest
In Georgia and Montana
IT BEAT IPANA!

We all tried Crest
While the others did not
Now we've got 20% less
Tooth decay than they've got

When you use Crest, you use the Beeeeeeeest!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:05 PM

Boy, this thread brings back a lot of memories! Somewhere in one of my closets I have a big box of Mad magazines I haven't looked at in nearly forty years... Those parodies really do stick in your mind! And, as I remember, most of the classic ones were written by the great Frank Jacobs.

Here's one, to the tune of "My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean":

My body has Calamine Lotion
My body's as sore as can be
The flowers I picked for my granny
Turned out to be poison ivy!

Don't touch,
Don't touch,
Don't touch poison ivy, ivy!

It will
Itch bad
And, it's worse than acne!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:52 PM

I remeber one performed at my college in the early 1970's about the NY Jets:

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way
From your first day at camp 'til they trade you away.

Can't remember the rest

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Seonaid
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 07:50 PM

Nice trip down Memory Lane --
How I loved the Mad "Comic Opera" and other spoofs back in the 60s!
My mother was a teacher of English Literature then.
Her stock with the students went up 200% one day.
She arrived in class with Mad magazines and read several parodies --
spoofs of Longfellow, Whitman, even Chaucer! --
and proceeded to discuss why they were so funny.
(The assigned homework that night was an original parody.)
I'm still writing parodies, possibly inspired by Mad's examples.
Great fun!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 07:00 PM

I seem to remember a part of "Nothing but a Square"

All my ties say kiss me honey
I bought them with good money
While seeing the world's fair
With the pure understanding
LALALALALALALA????
That I'm nothing but a square.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 05:37 PM

You're a fat of bag
You're an unsightly hag
But, you're still my true love Emmy Lou

You're the image of the flag I love,
Your complextion is red, white and blue

Overweight and big in your ill fitting wig

But, should old aquantence be forgot
I'll escape from that fat old hag!

(Sung to you're a grand old flag)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,LHC
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 02:28 PM

For BOB--the Notre Dame fight song:

"Cheer, cheer the black and the blue!
You're gonna win 'cause we are for you!
Push their faces in the mud!
Punch out their teeth and draw their blood!

Stomp on their stomachs, break all their bones!
We wanna hear their screams and their moans!
If you follow our advice,
You'll win a clean victory."

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,LHC
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 02:23 PM

For Beckaroonie--

"Whenever I'm in sight
It's so upsetting:
Every time you bite
It's me you're getting.
Now you're full of fight,
My watchdog in the night."

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,LHC
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 02:18 PM

I remember that one, except for a few words I've left as blanks:

"I have often walked my Pierre outside,
But I never liked him in the dirty air outside.
Now he sits upon
His own private john,
That I built for the dog that I love.

See the ____________that I made for him!
See the powder blue pajamas I crocheted for him!
And should he feel ill,
Here's the Contac pill
That I'll give to the dog that I love.

But oh! he sometimes annoys me,
When he does, I'm firm as can be,
Although it nearly destroys me
To have to tell him he can't watch his own TV.

If I _____________________
I'll get maids for him.
And if he should lose his hair,
I'll get toupees for him
And when I drop dead
When my will is read
All will go to the dog that I love."

And a bonus to complete your "Pro Monsters"

"These new monsters ain't true monsters
They've got nothing to show.
If you want to make a girl feel petrified,
To make her scream, and her eyes grow wide,
Tell her that next week she'll be the Wolfman's bride,
Why-ho, Monsters, let's go!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,showtunefolkie
Date: 03 Oct 10 - 09:25 AM

I'm trying to find the words to: "I have often walked my Pierre outside..." and ends with "...now he sits upon his own private john that I built for the dog that I love". This was an ode to a poodle owner. Where can I find these?

In the meantime, my own 'tween memory recalls:

"The thing that I bury will have to be
A real Transylvanian monstrosity
The thing for which I crave
Will have two blood-shot eyes staring up from that grave..."

and

"There's no monsters like Pro Monsters
There's no monsters we know..."

Manny Get Your Ghoul and Frank Jacobs made me fall in love with parodies and sending up musical comedies.

Thanks, man!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,sdw
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 12:54 PM

Does anyone remember this one (sung to the tune of "Bali Hai")? I can only remember the first 8 lines.

Alcatraz is waiting
On that rock in the bay
Once you're there, there's no escaping
You will stay, you will stay.

Alcatraz is calling
Hear it call through the gloom
"You don't need a reservation,
We've got room, we've got room"

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,sciencechicky
Date: 11 Aug 10 - 08:53 PM

another ad one... to tune of "On Wisconsin"

Push rice crispies,
push rice crispies,
snap, crackle and pop!
And while you're at it,
Push our corn flakes,
finest of the crop.
Yum yum yum.
Say that each is
Great with peaches,
fresh or from the can.
And while you're pushing,
Don't forget All-Bran.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,wright1
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 02:44 AM

Here's what I remember of "When You're A Red". Hoping there's someone else who can fill in more...

When you're a Red, you're a Red all the way!
From your first Party coup to your last power play!

When you're a Red, you've got agents galore!
You give prizes for peace, while they stir up a war!

You set off a test, and when you're halfway through it,
you point at the West, and say, they drove you to it!
That's how you do it!

When you're a Red, you will sign a peace pact,
that will fool everyone, 'till your troops have attacked!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 09:33 AM

GUEST,Feezite, about the parody you posted on 15 May 10 - 09:09 PM, the one that starts "Boom the cherry bombs explode, Blowing potholes in the road". You say "To the tune of 'Deck the Halls'", but it scans like it was actually to the tune of "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing."

Don

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,beckaroonie
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 07:58 PM

Yet ANOTHER Mad Magazine Song Parody
Sung to the Tune of :

MOON RIVER

Chopped li-ver,
Onions on the side;
My social life has died.....from youuuuuuu;

My friends shun me,
they out-run me,
the smell of my breath~
is slow death~
sad but truuuuuuue;

Your Odor's
Twice- as bad as Beer;
And People who drink Beer
Agreeeeeeeeee.....

I know that your smell
will not end.....
My halitosis friend.....

Chopped Liverrrrr
Innnnn Meeeeeeeeeeeee.

Subject: Lyr Add: Mad Song Parody: Girl From Ipanema
From: GUEST,beckaroonie
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 07:41 PM

Another Mad Magazine Song Parody (half remembered)

Sung to the Tune of "The Girl From Ipanema"

Short and Fat and Bald and Ugly -
the Guy from NYC goes walking -
and as he passes
the lovely lasses
say "ooohhhhh"

Strings of Pearls,
and Diamond Bracelets,
And coats of mink
are what he gives them
That's why when he passes
Those lovely lasses
say, "oooooohhhhh"

True, he is dumpy and ugly,
Still, they do not seem to mind it;
They love the smell of his money,
and each day that he walks down the street
(I don't re-mem-ber de de deeeeee)

(something like that....)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,beckaroonie
Date: 10 Jun 10 - 07:26 PM

Ok...Here is another Mad Magazine
Song Parody for Ya~~~

Sung to the Tune of:

"STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT"

Watchdog in the night,
I never chained you ,
Watchdog in the night,
I'd always trained you,
to protect my house,
until the night was thruuuuuuuu.

Then those burglers came,
you didn't mind it,
they were after loot,
you helped them find it,
diamond rings and furs,
you quickly led them tooooooooooo.

Watchdog in the night,
A stupid beagle you were -
Watchdog in the night,
But later on when I
returned to my poor home -
how your jaws did foam......

You became a snapping dog,
A fearless crazy yapping dog.....
Whenever Im in sight
I don't remember.....lalalalala I don't remember lalalalala
My watchdog in. the. nightttttttttt.

###
I remember a few more songs, bits and pieces, will post later =)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Feezite
Date: 15 May 10 - 09:09 PM

Sung to the tune of "My Bonnie"

A porpoise will flap with his flippers,
A monkey's both clever and shrewd,
A spaniel will bring you your slippers,
A cat only comes when there's food!

(refrain)

Yech, cats,
yech, cats,
Don't try to bring to bring one to me, to me,
Yech, cats,
Yech, cats,
Don't try to bring one to me!

and...

To the tune of "Deck the Halls"

Boom the cherry bombs explode,
Blowing potholes in the road,
Tiny bits of dynamite,
Sure can give a guy a fright,
One went off by Irving's mama,
Poor thing almost had a trauma,
Blast, these simple minded jerks,
We turn loose with fireworks,
Boom the cherry bombs explode,
Blowing potholes in the road.

Can't believe I still remember this much after forty years...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:20 PM

Keith: "Potrzebie" is Polish for "necessary." "The necessary" is slang in English for "money."

Where I come from, "the necessary" is slang for the toilet. "I have to use the necessary" doesn't mean I have to use money. It means I gotta take a crap.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Chief_Ed
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 08:48 AM

At a Howard Johnson's, eating,
You will find me there repeating,
Those jokes no one can bear.
I'm a sure fire sensation,
With my Bert Parks imitation,
Cause I'm nothing but a square!

At conventions by the hour
I will squirt my water flower
just like a legionair.

'Cause there just ain't no denyin'
that I'm nothing but a square.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Osman
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 05:25 PM

This one I remember:


Don't be disheartened if,
The Hardships are great, and the rewards but few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.


There was another which went something like this:

Do you remember the tree,
Where we once carved our names, like hearts entwined,
Never to be forgotten till the end of time.
Well, guess what?
The tree died.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 10 - 08:35 PM

It started:
Oh Rome is our dream

Loved those Mad song parodies when I was a kid.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: The Old Galoot
Date: 20 Mar 10 - 12:23 AM

Song about ancient Rome, sung to Home on the Range

Oh Rome [can't remember three syllables]
With your wild Coluseum
And your traffic-jammed Appian Way

Where pizza is best
Though it's hard to digest
And Caesar's the King we obey!

Rome, Rome your so fine
With your crazy SPQR sign!
Where the orgies go on
From each night until dawn
And each Christian is fed to a lion!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies -- campaign songs
From: The Old Galoot
Date: 20 Mar 10 - 12:15 AM

Rockefeller campaign song, sung to the Marines Hymn (Halls of Montezuma)

From the vaults of Chase Manhattan Bank
To his zillion shares of stocks
We will work for Rockefeller, boys
Cause he's richer than Fort Knox

True, he makes a lousy candidate
But we never should forget,
He's the only one that has the cash
To pay off the U.S. debt!

Agnew song, sung to Notre Dame fight song

Cheer, cheer, for Spiro today
He will unite the whole USA
Polacks, guineas, japs and greeks,
Impudent snobs and left-wing freaks

Though the slums be great or be small
When you've seen one slum, you've seen them all,
When he loses, he can star in
All In The Family!

Wallace campaign song:

dang, having trouble with this one, the last line was "He'll keep the White House white!"

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,The Old Galoot
Date: 20 Mar 10 - 12:06 AM

Guest, China wrote on Jan 14 2010 about the campaign song for Alfred E. Neuman.

It started out

Try to remember
This coming November
To vote for Neuman,
Vote for Neuman,

Then the part that Guest had:

Alfred E. Neuman with brain of albumin
Will win just like Truman did from Missouri
Back him and then we can say once again
What me worry, worry, worry...

There were other verses, I think. But that reminds me of a couple more campaign songs.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,The Old Galoot
Date: 20 Mar 10 - 12:03 AM

Wow, it seems I remember a number of songs; I just sang one to my partner:

Sung to the tune of Anchors Aweigh

Our kid's away, Thank God!
Our kid's awa-a-a-y
We sent him off to camp
At fifty bucks a da-ay

Though it's a lot to pay
We'll make no fuss,
If we complain
Then they might
Send him back,
Send him back,
To us!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:05 PM

I know it was not a parody but " Rewriting Your Way to a PhD" in MAD magazine was priceless

AD

Subject: RE: "Potrzebie"
From: GUEST,Keith
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 05:57 PM

"Potrzebie" is Polish for "necessary." "The necessary" is slang in English for "money."

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,China
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:38 PM

I remember part of one from way back...sung to the tune of Try to Remember.

Alfred E. Neuman with brain of albumin
Will win just like Truman did from Missouri
Back him and then we can say once again
What me worry, worry, worry...

And part of another one sung to the tune of the Air Force song. It was about dentists.

We dislike cavaties left untreated
Teeth look bad full of decay
When we're in doubt - we pull them out
Oh, nothing can stop a dentist today!

A Christmas song, sung to the tune of Good King Wi....can't spell it:

Ooooohhhhh, Oh
Cards from Linda, cards from Sue
Cards with 10 cents postage due
Ever sending, never ending
Cards you'd like to tear into!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 01:33 AM

I remember a send-up of Star Trek set to tunes from Hair.

Aquarius:
And you can do it with a crew that's dispensible!
Crew that's dispensible! Dispensible!
Minor characters we bring on
Perish when they meet a Klingon
... (that's all I can remember now)

I also remember a spoof of 2001 called 201: A Space Idiocy. I don't remember any songs from that, or if it did have songs.

I too have the LP "Mad Twists Rock 'n' Roll" -- it's keen, man. Although none of the songs are exactly parodies of any single song, they definitely send up various rock-n-roll song types of the day including the "my boyfriend died" genre and the "the little girl has grown up and is sexy now" genre, as well as a bona fide (and not too shabby) Elvis send-up. If that comes out on CD, definitely grab it.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Blind Mike
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:16 PM

Anybody know the rest of this one to the tune of "If I Only Had A Brain" ?
At conventions by the hour
I squirt my water flower
just like a legionair.
(forgot this line)
'Cause there just ain't no denyin'
that I'm nothing but a square.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 11:35 AM

On 31 Dec 09 - 01:06 PM GUEST,Bob in Toronto asked about parodies of college fight songs. I'm not sure this is the one you are remembering, but I remember a bit of a parody of the Notre Dame fight song, something like:

Pray, pray for
old Pivnick Tech!
We're going to get it
right in the neck!
send [???] of taps on high ...

or something like that.

Don