Mad Magazine parodies

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,RealOldFred
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 10:01 AM

Once upon a midnight cautious while I pondered weak and nauseous
Over some advertising copy I had done for Woolworth's Store,
While I nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a yapping
As of someone loudling yapping, yapping at my office door.
"'Tis some client there," I muttered, "yapping at my office door.
Only this and nothing more."

Then I felt my terror worsen for my guest was not a person
In there stepped a cocker spaniel; naturally I jumped in fear,
Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel,
But the Spaniel merely stood there speaking out with voice so clear,
Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie in voice both loud and clear:
Quoth the spaniel, "Drink Blatz Beer."

I marvelled that this dog ungainly spoke commercials very plainly,
How he spoke the message clearly, selling points he underscored,
For I could not help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet could mouth a slogan without sounding slightly bored.
Most announcers being human can't help sounding slightly bored.
Quoth the spaniel, "Buy a Ford."

Thus this dog with voice like Murrow, made my heavy brow unfurrow.
Thoughts of fortunes I could make now made me shake down to my knees.
But the spaniel set my grieving then by turning tail and leaving.
Naturally I begged him tarry crying out, "Stay with me, please!"
Chasing him right down the hallway crying out "Stay with me, please!"
Quoth the spaniel, "Eat Kraft Cheese."

Found in the 1961 School Magazine of the Maltese Royal Naval School, Tal-Handaq! Take a look!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Firebrand
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:09 PM

I remember some songs from the 60's. One was about the periodic table. (Do Ra Mi) Why do I remember these?!!!

O - the sign for oxygen
Ra - that's radium so rare
Ti - is tin for making cans
As - is arsenic so beware
F - for florine that we drink
N- for neon lights that glow
S for sulfur what a stink
Which brings us back to O

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: robomatic
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:18 PM

One of my favorite memories is when but a lad going through Soviet Customs with a Mad Magazine in an outside pocket of my shoulderbag. The picture was Alfred E Neumann done up in WWII bomber pilot duds- The issue had a take-off of "Catch 22". The powerful battle image got a lot of second takes from the Russians but I got through just fine.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine song parodies
From: GUEST,McMonty
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 04:55 PM

Those songs you remember can be found on the "Absolutely MAD" DVD available through Amazon. It is 50+ years of the magazine --every issue in PDF format. Issue #110 from the 1960's has "Songs Of Food." This has been so hard to locate and here, I guess, is why:

From Wikipedia: Legal issues

Mad Magazine provoked an early legal backlash against parody when in 1961 the magazine published a songbook in which various topical ditties such as "The Last Time I Saw Maris", "Albert Einstein," and "There's No Business Like No Business" were included (in poem format; with a parenthetical phrase after each title, stating "Sung to the tune of..."). Several music publishers joined in a suit taking the magazine to court. The matter was eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to review the decision by a lower court dismissing the suit against Mad.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Summerdan
Date: 27 Jul 09 - 11:53 PM

West Side Story became East Side Story (Khrushchev):

Tonight Nikita made an error,
His wife's a holy terror,
A case of dynamite.

My favorites were "Carols For All Occasions". I still all the lyrics to three remember three. They began:

They Come on April Fifteenth, Dear

Deck the walls and fences; Golly,
Isn't trick or treating jolly?

I'm looking for that smart aleck
Who sends all the comic valentines.

I think there were more.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Corgihound
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 12:11 PM

I thought it was "I have one grunch but the eggplant over YONDER!"

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,(Dr.) John S. Sultzbaugh
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 02:41 AM

Of all the MAD Magazine song parodies I wish I had memorized (and I did soak up a few), one of the most perennially relevant is one I read briefly as a college freshman in 1968. Here's some quick background: I had been sentenced to an all-male Ivy-League wannabe thanks to its snob-appeal, although I hated the snobbery that abounded there. I had to convince my folks that I had a stake in my own future, and I spent three miserable semesters before peptic ulcers and Penn State rescued me. Now the grandest intimidator for keeping fellows there was the draft-fed war in Vietnam, which MAD addressed in a parody that shall apparently never become irrelevant. It was a take-off on one of the most beloved songs of the 1960's, "More," and was aptly labeled "War."
I can recall its second line, "War helps to keep the population down;" and its transition: "War brings the USO's/And war brings the John Wayne shows/Yes, war brings us much enjoyment/It cuts down on unemployment!" I believe this issue in question was published at nearly the same time that MAD also parodied the musical "Camelot" with "Can A Lot;" perhaps they were in the same issue. Can anyone find the entire lyrics for "War?" Thanks!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Taconicus
Date: 29 Aug 09 - 03:35 AM

Ah, I still sing them. The following are totally from memory.

From "If Consumer Products Had Their Own Theme Songs":

To the tune of "On the Street Where You Live"
(note: Raleigh cigarettes came with coupons you could save and exchange for prizes.)

We have never had a stuffed moose before.
For a stuffed moose we have never had a use before.
Now we've forty three; Raleigh sent them free.
We just love all the gifts that they give.

People stop and stare at our landing strip.
It took 50 million coupons to gain ownership.
Raleigh sent it free with a warranty.
We just love all the gifts that they give.

And oh, just look at our ceiling;
You can see a chimpanzee too.
We love the glorious feeling
That we're saving up to get him the Bronx Zoo.

Every day we smoke forty packs or so
And those coupons we are saving great stacks, you know.
When our son turns four, we'll save even more.
We just love all the gifts that they give!

The following are from "If Professions Had Their Own Theme Songs":

Dentists: [Someone already gave this one, above.]

Barbers (to the tune of George M. Cohen's "Over There"):

In his hair, in his hair,
Sprinkle goo, spill shampoo, in his hair.
Give that man a crew cut, or try a new cut.
But make sure you cut off his hair.

In your chair, in your chair,
Give your views, while he stews in your chair.
Keep on gabbin', complainin', crabbin',
'Cause he can't get up till you're finished with his hair!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,sinenomine
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:06 AM

I was looking for Mad's fight songs (GM fight song, dentists' fight song, teamsters' fight song, etc.) and found them here.

I'm pretty sure the last verse of the teamsters' fight song is wrong on this site. I think the last verse goes like this:

So its hi hi hey, when we want a raise in pay
We shout out our grievance loud and strong
And when ere we like, we just call a strike
And the country stops rolling along.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: gatyamgal
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 11:26 PM

Haven't been here for a long time. Glad I found this thread. I used to love to sing Mad Magazine parodies when I was a kid. They were almost all we had before weird al. One I really liked and it is still relavent today is a song I call the weatherman song. I can't remember if that is the original name or not. Here are the lyrics
Seventy six degrees is what we'll predict
with one hundred and ten degrees by the shore
To be followed by days and days
Of an air pollution haze. That is what we weathermen adore
We always play safe and say there's a chance of rain
Or we say partly cloudy partly clear
We use words like "maybe" "perhaps" and "possible"
Just in case, the weather changes here
We're predicting sunny weather on the coast of Spain
Who'll know if it is so here in the U. S.
In Pago Pago we can say there is a hurricane
Who has changed her name to Bess
Predicting weather is a rewarding job
Whether we're right or wrong we still know
Our jobs are quite safe and sound
While there's weather still around
Give three cheers for wind and sleet and snow.

There is a karaoke website where I sang the song. Check this out.
http://www.singsnap.com/snap/r/ae9d31ee

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: gatyamgal
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 11:32 PM

While I am on this thread. I am looking for the lyrics to the tune of the caissons go rolling along. It was a song about playing the card game bridge. I recall some of the lyrics as being something about taking a trick and seeing your partner getting sick. And about bid a heart play a spade, .... a play that can't be made. My parents were hard core bridge players. They would complain about people that didn't know how to play their cards right. If anyone recalls this parody, please share it.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,wandrews
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 06:19 PM

Don't number your juvenile poultry before the proper process of incubation has been materialized!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,bytaman
Date: 01 Oct 09 - 10:03 PM

Does anyone remember a parody of the Beatles "Do You Wanna Know A Secret? It was called, "Do You Wanna Eat A Bagel". I am only assuming it came from MAD magazine because a couple of older boys down the street where I grew up in Brooklyn were big MAD magazine fans and used to play "Do You Wanna Eat A Bagel" on their guitars. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,MrChris
Date: 07 Oct 09 - 04:52 PM

just encountered this website. Haven't looked through all the previous posts, so this might be duplicative. But like other posters, it's amazing how many of the Mad parody songs I remember by heart. Here's one:

(to the tune of "I'm Looking over a Four-Leaf Clover" - about Christopher Columbus)

I had a notion to cross the ocean
That never'd been crossed before
I thought for certain that Asia I'd reach
Now something tells me I've hit the wrong beach.

No pearls are sold here, there ain't no gold here
Just rain and disease galore.
How did I do it? I really blew it!
When I hit the New World shore.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Jack o' Spades
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 11:34 AM

Glad to see I'm not the only retro-minded Mad Mag lover... I crack up on the days that I wake up with one of the old 70s or 80s parodies in my head.

The "Oh Susanna" parody that I mostly remember went something like this;

Well, I come from California
       with a bandaid on my knee
Cause I rumbled with Hell's Angels
       and they nearly crippled me

Well I tried to meet the leader's chick
       he didn't take it kind
The acid bath he gave me
       man, it left me nearly blind

Holy Hannah! He pushed me 'neath a train
      Now my skull is in some canyon
      And they're mailing me my brain!

There are so many to remember. Has the magazine ever put out a book of their old parodies?

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,anon
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 06:36 PM

Pox upon thee little fellow,
creep and fink with stripe of yellow.
The gang you squealed on has the urge
to strum and sing your funeral dirge.
Into the drink you should have went,
neatly cased in wet cement.
Delinquency can be a blight
when guys like you don't do it right.
Seeing you I hate to think
that I was once a lousy fink.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Guest, SF
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 08:48 PM

(Sung to the tune of Oh Little Town of Bethlehem)

Oh little town of Washington
How still we see thee sleep
Thy Senate's bare
no one is there
And Nixon's in Palm Beach

Though congressmen forsake thee
We know why they're not here
Thy filth and slime and slums and crime
Might mar their Christmas cheer

With shotguns and police dogs
we guard our homes and stores
Alive we'll stay
this Christmas day
If we don't go outdoors!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Homeless
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 11:08 PM

This song taught me the evils of plagerism. A dedicated reader of MAD in high school, one day I walked into English class and a friend asked if I done my homework. When I said we didn't have homework, he responded that we were supposed to have written a song parody. In a panic, I sat down and started scribbling the first two thirds of this, which I'd read earlier in the week, since not turning in anything was worse that copying.
After grading all our papers, the teacher was so impressed with my paper that she wanted me to read it aloud, in front of the whole class. You never saw a more paniced high school junior in your life. I was terrified that someone else read MAD and would announce my transgression. It was enough horror to last a lifetime - I haven't plagerized since. (and the song is burned into my memory, after 20+ years)


Mine eyes have seen the glory of an army that's co-ed
of a navy where the captain has to subdivide the head
of an air force where they issue flowered sheets for every bed
The times are changing now

Glory, glory basic training
never was more entertaining
there's more action, who's complaining?
The times are changing now.

They are wearing battle outfits that are full of fancy frills
they're a credit to the union and we call 'em G.I. Jills
if George Patton were alive today he'd take off for the hills
The times are changing now

Glory, glory foes they'll shake up
armed attacks they're sure to break up
then they'll freshen up their make up
The times are changing now

They are trained to shoot a rifle and they show no signs of fright
they're as strong as any man and never run from any fight
that's unless one gets a headache and she tells you, "not tonight"
The times are changing now

Glory, glory tell her mister
if she struggles when you've kissed her
no one likes a draft resister
the times are changing now.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,old fart
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 09:26 AM

the only thing I remember about the bridge parody is:
Bid a heart, bid a spade, bid a game that can't be made, as the bridge team goes rolling along.
And then later...
Shout out 3 No Trump load and strong!!!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Me
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 09:29 AM

One more...
This is to the tune of The Marine's Hymn. Think "From the Halls of Montezuma..."

From the slums of Baltic Avenue, to the Boardwalk and Park Place.
We will buy up all the properties, build hotels in every space.
...don't remember... and then finishes with:
But we can not even start the game until somebody finds the dice!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:03 AM

It's A Grand Old Flag

It's a grand old flag, it's a good plastic bag
and we get it on all of our clothes.
A guy can play the live-long day and
have it wherever he goes.
It is lots more fun than a doll or a gun,
you can wave them around like flags.
But should old acquaintance be forgot,
keep your head out of plastic bags!

This is the way I remember this wonderful parody. I can never remember the real lyrics, as the above successfully replaced the real lyrics in my memory bank. :)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: mrmoe
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:43 AM

.....and who will forget, "she got a nose job"....I have a digitized copy of the album with that song - "Mad Twists Rock & Roll" - if anyone wants it

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:58 AM

I believe I have the original record - I think it came stapled within one of the magazine issues.

Don

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Cuilionn (the lang-lost)
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 12:02 PM

The Legend of the Ad-Men (Mad Mag parody of Jabberwocky)

Twas Brillo, and the G.E. stoves
did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade.
All Pillsbury were the Tastee loaves
And in a Minute Maid.

"Beware the Station Break, my son,
The voice that lulls, the ads that vex,
Beware the Doctor's Claim and shun
That horror called Brand-X!"

He took his Q-Tip swab in hand,
Long time the Tension Headache fought,
So Dristan he by a Mercury,
And Bayer break'd in thought.

And as in Bufferin Gulf he stood,
The Station Break, with Rise of Tame,
Came Whisking through the Pride-hazed wood,
And Cream-Rinsed as it came!

"Buy one, buy two, we're almost through!"
The Q-Tip Dash went Spic-and-Span,
He Tide Airwick, and with Bisquick,
Went Aero-Waxing Ban.

"And hast thou Dreft the Station Break?
Ajax the Breck, Excedrin boy,
Oh Fab wash day! Cashmere Bouquet!"
He Handi-wrapped with Joy.

Twas Brillo and G.E. Stoves
Did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade
All Pillsbury were the Tastee Loaves
And in a Minute Maid.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,CampBarlow
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 11:09 AM

Sung to the tune "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in the same issue that "O Little Town Of Washington" was published back in the early 70s.

The plane we boarded last evening dear
to start on our holiday spree,
we read three books and enjoyed our meal
and saw a movie for free.

We pulled our seats back and slept 'till dawn
and chatted together past noon.
It's been a pleasure and now let's hope
that we'll be taking off soon!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,CampBarlow
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 11:16 AM

Sung to the tune "Silver Bells". Same issue as previous post. How I memorized these from 1973 is beyond me.

Drivers weaving, signs unheading
down the highway they race.
You can tell it's the season of Christmas.

Wildly weaving, sometimes heaving
with the cops giving chase,
and with each fatal crack-up you'll hear...

Count the toll
count the toll
It's Christmas time on the highway...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 12:45 AM

Guest - thanks for that Jabberwocky parody. My friend and I memorized that when it came out originally (1966 or 67), but I eventually forgot a lot of it. It's one of my favorites.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:46 AM

How about the parody of "West Side Story" called "East Side Story"? Two gangs, one led by Kennedy, the other by Nikita Khrushchev. "When you're a Red", sung by Krushchev:

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

....

You're always a friend
Of every brand-new nation
The spies that you send
Inflame the population
That's infiltration!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,R Harris
Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:47 AM

I enjoyed reading through these posts. I remember one song:

Charley, Charley, bicycle built for two
On my Harley, down Central Avenue
We'll tear up the town till sundown
Old ladies we will rundown
And we won't stop for no darn cop
On a Harley thats built for two.

I remember the ending of "War" (sung to More)

War, brings us soldiers that are strong and good
War, brings us John Wayne films from Hollywood
War, brings our TV newscasts more
Scenes of blood and death and gore
That's what living color's for.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Bob in Toronto
Date: 31 Dec 09 - 01:06 PM

I've been trying to find the parodies of college fight songs MAD did in the late 60's or early 70's. The only one I remember partially is the Notre Dame one "Stomp on their backbones, break all their bones". Other songs included similar lyrics. Anyone know where to find them? HAppy New Year!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: beeliner
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 02:24 AM

'"Potrzebie" is alleged to be Polish for "I had one grunch but the eggplant over there."'

Any Polish speakers here know the actual translation?

I read somewhere that Al Feldstein saw the word on a billboard in Poland and just thought it was a funny-looking word.

I think that it may mean 'You need', as an advertisement might say, 'You need [our product]', but I'm not sure.

Back in the late 1950's, MAD had 'celebrity guest writers' in nearly every issue, which were usually visualizations of well-known comedy routines, such as Danny Kaye's "I'm Five", Orson Bean's "Two Chinese Guys Who Go to an American Restaurant", and Wally Cox's "My Friend Dufo (What a Crazy Guy)". But Ernie Kovacs did some original material for the magazine.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 01:03 PM

was cats, chicks and hipsters
dig me and dig me good......

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

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: 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,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: "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: 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: 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: 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 -- 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: 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
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: 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,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: 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,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: 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.

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

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 - 07:58 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.