Yesterday parody

Subject: Yesterday parody
From: alison
Date: 03 Aug 98 - 02:48 AM

Hi,

I got sent this by a friend, thought you'd enjoy it.

YESTERDAY

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone hanging over me.
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong,
What it was I could not say.
Now my data's gone
And I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for backups seemed so far away.
I thought my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

_______________________________

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 02:14 AM

G'day Alison,

I downloaded this one 3 July, 1998 - from a thread on Mudcat. Come to think of it, I passed it on to a few friends around Sydney ... you might even have got it from of of those!

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: alison
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 08:05 AM

Hi,

Oops, I thought I might have seen it somewhere before. It came to me via Newcastle. Now what was that Tom Lehrer song..... "I got it from..... and she got it from...."

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Martin Pearson
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 08:26 PM

The Tom Lehrer song is called Nicolai Ivanovich Lobochevsky (don't anyone DARE question the spelling)

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Aug 98 - 02:05 AM

Uhm, I don' teenk so... that was the one about the thievery of a mathematics proof, and a verry funny song it was, and I'm certainly not going to fix your spelling, but the Tom Lehrer song alison is quoting is a little more basic than math. It's the one about VD, right, alison?
Actually, I have the songbook (Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer and Not Enough Pictures by Ralph Steadman) and IF you want, can post the words.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 04:57 AM

We had a pub sing in London last month, and one drunken patron kept coming over to give us requests. He wanted "Yesterday," and it didn't look like he'd shut up until he heard it.
Well, Dave Brayant sand one hell of a parody of "Yesterday," and our besotten friend loved it.
So did I.
So, Dave, could you post those lyrics?
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 05:02 AM

Of course there is my version 'Yester-f*cking-day'

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 05:39 AM

I think the second verse should have "millstone" rather than "milestone", but there again it's not my song. Milestone may have been intentional.

Nigel

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 05:41 AM

On a similar theme there's This one which does have attributions

Nigel

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"Yesterday" by John L. Berger, Mechanicsburg, PA appeared in the May '96 edition of Enterprise Systems Journal (With apologies to John Lennon and Paul McCartney)

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Guessed
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 07:37 AM

Yes please - the Tom Lehrer song
but don't forget to tell us who you got it from - we may have to enter that on the form at the clinic ............................

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 06:54 PM

The Tom Lehrer song is 'I got it from Agnes' (Lucky Pierre, always in the middle), and is brilliant.

There are other parodies....

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a surgeon hanging over me
He's come to to do my vasectomy.....

LTS

Subject: ADD: Yesterday parody (Dave Bryant)
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 12:09 PM

You're a glutton for punishment Joe:

Yesterday - seemed like it was Wed-nes-day,
But as today is Saturday,
It must have been Friday - Yesterday.

Suddenly - there's no entry in my di-ar-y,
For the Thursday or the Fri-i-day,
This Saturday came suddenly.

Where two days could go,
I don't know, I couldn't say,
I remember - bugger-all since yesterday
Which seemed like...

Wednesday - still there's nothing else to say,
At least I don't think so anyway,
Today was tomorrow - yesterday.

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 12:37 PM

Well, thank you, Dave. My day is now complete.
Is this your own work, or who do we blame for writing it?
Thanks.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: MMario
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 12:57 PM

I can understand why it was well received!

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 22 Sep 02 - 09:24 AM

As I've told Joe, I wrote it in the 60's when a rather similiar person kept pestering me to sing the original (which I've never learnt). I'd just had a few days of very boozy holiday and was at an even boozier party and the parody was the result of being told "If you're a folksinger, you should be able to write your own words".

Subject: RE: Yesterday parody
From: GUEST,Brían
Date: 22 Sep 02 - 11:29 PM

Leprosy-
All my limbs are falling off of me
I'm not half the man I used to be
I believe I have leprosy

My little brother taught that to me. I don't know where he got it.
Brían