Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: The Og Date: 17 Jun 21 - 01:58 PM Senior Moments (Scotch & Soda parody) (C) by Bill Ogden Fmaj7 Fm6 Senior moments, why am I here? Give me directions, watch me forget, C A7 D7 G7 Everything seems to disa- pear I fear, Let me just ramble I’ll get there yet, I bet, E (C C7) Again this year. It’s no sweat. F Folks just sit and watch me, C G7 C A7 Ig- noring what I'm sayin'. D7 And Ev-ry time I make a point, G7 walk to F They think that I’m just playin’. Fmaj7 Fm6 All I can say is, one of these days, C A7 D7 G7 You’ll be just like me, and then you’ll see, C A7 It’s hard to fly where the eagles fly, when you’re sur- F G7 C (F C) Rounded by turkeys, people would I lie? |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 25 Jul 18 - 09:03 PM thankyou! keep up the good work sandra larepole, that's a very clever piece of work/parody/mondagreen |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:50 PM Here you are Sandra: I did post my Trump song on another thread way back, soon after I wrote it, which was not long after he was elected. I did update it slightky a few months later, but it's probably in need of further modifications after his recent visit to Europe! TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP Lyrics © Trish Santer Tune: Nellie the Elephant From New York A travelling businessman came, But not an intelligent elephant, No, a bloke with a funny name, Mop of hair, And face with a very fake tan, O what a farce, he might well pass For an outsize orang-utan. Donald, th’orang-utan packed his cart And trundled off to the golf course, Off he went with a trumpety-trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Doesn’t want wind farms to blight his view But happy to knock down some houses, Said he was doing it for everyone’s good, Trump, Trump, Trump. But soon bigger things were calling, far, far away, He put himself up as a candidate In the US election fray. BUT, that was in April, and no-one believed That Donald would ever pursue it: Now you must agree how wrong you can be, Trump, Trump, Trump. Night by night, He’d rant and point and rave, When Donald was up on the podium He looked so proud and brave, Dirty tricks Yon Donald did perform But yet he just deluded them And took the crowd by storm. What a palaver for months on end, Touring all over the country, Hillary missed out Wisconsin, oh dear, but not Trump, Trump, Trump. Lawyers and FBI all muscled in To ride on this huge roller-coaster, Vote for the “lesser of evils” they said, not Trump, Trump, Trump? The Mexican border was calling, far, far away, He’ll send all those immigrants building his wall, And leave them the other side of it, And then, he'll make them pay for it! (Extra line!) While others are fleeing to Canada, The moon or Mars or Australia, What kind of country will America be, with Trump, Trump, Trump? On he went, Trampling others down, He only had one goal in life, To take the President’s crown. Just how many people did he offend? Which makes it such a mystery Why they voted for him in the end. All other candidates whittled away, He had to face up to Ms Clinton, TV debates, all fuelled with hate, Trump, Trump, Trump. Misogynist, racist and bigoted perv, And don’t mention emails from Hillary, Lies and distortion, all out of proportion, Trump, Trump, Trump. Washington DC is calling, not so far away, He was in The White House by January, What horror, is all I can say. BUT now he is lining up missiles and ships And pointing them at North Korea, Just keep your hands well off pussies and buttons, Trump, Trump, Trump! |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,larepole, guest Date: 24 Jul 18 - 11:00 PM Dont know if this is a parody, or an intentional mondregreen or both. Scar Strangled Banger O staid cant obscene by the dumb surly right, Fatso rowdily seig heiled at the toilets lost cleaning, Whose fraud snipes and fright scars screw the powerless might Odorous ram farts sasqwatched, were so callously screaming Davy Crocketts' red scare, the bums thirsting and stare, Pray groove with the whites that our flack would swell terror Jose does that scar strangled banger yet rave, O'er the brand of the freaks and the drone of the slave? |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Donuel Date: 22 Jul 18 - 03:11 PM I'm gonna trace this thread refresh |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 22 Jul 18 - 10:32 AM Tattie Bogle, please post your lyrics. Rusty dobro - thanks for posting Monty Parkin's song, |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Rusty Dobro Date: 22 Jul 18 - 08:50 AM Here's one from the late and lamented Monty Parkin: SEX AIDS FROM AMSTERDAM When it’s spring again I’ll bring again Sex aids from Amsterdam, Tulips just won’t do, I’ll bring to you Sex aids from Amsterdam. I can’t wait until the day I fill these empty arms of mine, Like the windmill keeps gyrating, so the coach will be vibrating From the suitcase where I cram All these sex aids from Amsterdam When it’s spring again I’ll bring again Sex aids from Amsterdam, Once I’ve done the view I’ll buy some new Sex aids from Amsterdam. I can’t wait until I pay the bill and fill up these bags of mine, Like the windmill keeps on whirling, that’s how your toes will be curling, When I stand there spreading jam on a sex aid from Amsterdam. When it’s spring again I’ll bring again Sex aids from Amsterdam, From my bargain break, back home I’ll take Sex aids from Amsterdam. I can’t wait until I try the drill with these new toys of mine, Like the windmill keeps revolving all our problems I’ll be solving, It looks fun in the diagram, with these sex aids from Amsterdam. This one weighs a kilogram, It’s a sex aid from Amsterdam. I’ll bring sex aids from Amsterdam. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Tattie Bogle Date: 22 Jul 18 - 06:00 AM Just been sent a link to "A Very Stable Genius" by friends in the US. It is absolutely hilarious! Said friends were over here last September, and I had written a partial parody of "Nellie the Elephant", featuring Trump, Trump, Trump. I asked them if they would mind me sining my song, to which they said, "So long as it's nothing complimentary about him" - it isn't! |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 21 Jul 18 - 12:11 AM Randy Rainbow(yes, real name) is a comedian, actor, writer, host and Internet sensation best known for his viral comedy videos. here are all his videos The latest is A very Stable Genius, to the tune of Modern Major General. Check out Cofeffe if you're a fan of Broadway musicals. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,Desi C Date: 09 Nov 16 - 07:29 AM I have to mention my own version of The Times They Are A Changing First Verse Come gather round people no more time to roam It's time to start looking for a good old Folk's home And acceot it that soon you'll be living alone You'll need help with your washing and shaving And incontinence means you're accident prone And sometinmes you'll need a changing (copyright Desi C) |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Joe_F Date: 07 Nov 16 - 06:57 PM Clean Supper: I remember from somewhere: "Country Roads" made me rich. I'm a son of a bitch. I don't remember the rest, or from whom. Google does not avail. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: The Doctor Date: 07 Nov 16 - 07:15 AM I wrote a parody based on 'April Morning'. I can't claim it's anyone's favourite, but some people like it. 'Twas on one April morning, just as the sun was dawning, 'Twas on one April morning down at the supermart, There's a checkout girl called Nancy, with everything you can fancy, I thought I'd do my shopping so I got myself a cart. Now trolleys are false and are full of all deceiving, Trolleys are false and they seldom will run true, For they're twisting and they're turning, your intentions they are spurning, They are always on the lookout for some different aisle from you. If I had but my token in my pocket, If I had put that trolley back again, There in the car-park I would lock it up for ever, And I would bother never with such a thing again. Why do you spend all your long, long time in cursing, Why do you waste all your energies in vain? When I'm faced with such a task it would be better with a basket, And all those bloody trolleys can stay out there in the rain. The tune is obviously the same. Feel free to sing it if you wish. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Clean Supper Date: 07 Nov 16 - 06:29 AM I also wrote a parody of Country Roads, which I see has had a few goes... This is up there with the most cynical of songs ever to be written, but I was pleased with my re-use of some of the original words or references to them, so I have a fondness for this song :) NGOs Almost Nike, Cancer Council, Heart Foundation, Amnesty or Greenpeace, Work is cold there, colder than you'd think, But warmer than in politics, or at Centrelink. NGOs, take our funds, From the place they belong, Cut campaigning, work on branding, Take our funds, NGOs. Regulations, gather round them, Tax deduction, charitable status, State endorsement, snaps them into line, Mist out on rebellion, tear-drop in my eye. NGOs, take our funds, From the place they belong, Cut campaigning, work on branding, Take our funds, NGOs. I hear their voice on the Morning Show it galls me, The messaging reminds me of Obama's campaign, And marching down the road I get the feeling that they'll misrepresent, Our campaign, once again... NGOs, take our funds, From the place they belong, Cut campaigning, work on branding, Take our funds, NGOs. Take our funds, NGOs... |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Clean Supper Date: 07 Nov 16 - 06:17 AM Along the lines of what Don Wise posted (as a Guest) on 19 Jun 12, is this parody or abridged version of The Man From Snowy River (sorry, I have no idea who wrote this parody). There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, That the colt from Old Regret had got away, So some blokes went out and got him back. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Joe_F Date: 06 Nov 16 - 10:50 PM I have since learned from the OED that my first post on 08 Apr 09 was an ignorant mistake: The musical sense of "parody" (new words to an old tune") is older than the literary sense (takeoff on an author's style). * Gordon Bok he wrote a tune All about the sun and moon And enduring cold and darkness 'cause the day is coming soon, But you know he's a musician and he don't get up till noon, And you know he just turns over in the morning. -- Garrison Keillor |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Nov 16 - 11:37 AM Well done Snuffy! Cheers DtG |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Snuffy Date: 06 Nov 16 - 10:42 AM It's three long springtimes since he bought his car The dealer who sold it said the car would go far The finest to come from Japan's far shore Now it is ready for the scrap heap There's rust on the bonnet there's rust on the boot There's rust on the panels and holes in the roof The engine sounds like a horse with only one hoof They've got their revenge for Hiroshima Many parts have now vanished since that first test drive, The gearbox it sounds like an angry beehive The clutch it is lying on the southbound M5 Fond mem'ries of holidays in Paignton Well the carburettor's bust and the oil it runs free All over the place where the sump used to be There's a pool of green water from the radiator And the motorist goes wincing at Datsun There's a long row of scrap heaps where trees used to grow It's filled up with Hondas and Datsuns also So if you want to buy a car remember poor Joe The motorist who remembers his Datsun |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Nov 16 - 07:54 AM Not got the words but one of my favourites was Geoff Higginbottom's rendition of "The drivers go wincing at Datsun'. DtG |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: bradfordian Date: 06 Nov 16 - 07:36 AM With reference to earlier post Borscht Riders In The Sky Mickey Katz -youtube |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: bradfordian Date: 06 Nov 16 - 07:31 AM From http://guntheranderson.com with reference to earlier post ARTIST: David Diamond TITLE: The Folksinger's Lament [To the tune of the Limerick Rake] Come all you floor singers, here in this throng I'll sing you a ditty that's turgid and long With rhymes that don't rhyme and with meter that's a little bit wrong And it's not what I'd sing when I'm sober But I'm ready to sing, now I've had one or two So you swine at the back needn't run for the loo You can put up with me like I've put up with you And I'd like you to join in the chorus Although my guitar I relentlessly bring It's never in tune when you ask me to sing So I'll go a cappella with this little thing And it's not what I'd sing when I'm sober There are ninety-four verses I'll stop to explain And I learned them this morning with infinite pain I'll just mumble the ones I've forgotten again And I'd like you to join in the chorus The verses, of cuckoos and valleys so deep My intent from the ears of the innocent keep But you know what I mean if you've not gone to sleep And it's not what I'd sing when I'm sober And after the sex comes the violence and gore With murders and stabbings and blood on the floor But before all the squeamish ones run for the door I'd like you to join in the chorus I go round pretending I gathered this lay From an ancient agrarian covered with hay On the floor of the pub where the old fellow lay 'Cause it's not what I'd sing when I'm sober But the truth is to tell that I stole the refrain The characters' motives I cannot explain And next week I'm planning to sing it again And I'd like you to join in the chorus I scribbled it down on the back of this sheet Which I tore from the roll as I sat on the seat At the back of the pub where the folk-singers meet But it's not what I'd sing when I'm sober I carry it round to the clubs where I go And I ask at the door can I join in the show And this was the first one that didn't say 'no' And I'd like you to join in the chorus |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: bradfordian Date: 06 Nov 16 - 07:29 AM From http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/garnetsh.htm With reference to earlier post ARTIST: Ian Robb TITLE: Garnet's Homemade Beer [To the tune of Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers, brother of the featured Garnet Rogers] Oh, the year was nineteen seventy-eight How I wish I'd never tried it now When a score of men were turned quite green By the scummiest ale you've ever seen / C - G C / - F C G~ / C G C - / - - G F / {Refrain} God damn them all, I was told This beer was worth its weight in gold We'd feel no pain, shed no tears But it's a foolish man who shows no fear At a glass of Garnet's home-made beer / G C - F / C F C F / G C G F~ / C F C F / - - G C / Oh, Garnet Rogers cried the town / How I wish... For twenty brave men, all masochists who Would taste for him his homemade brew {Refrain} This motley crew was a sickening sight / How I wish... There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags {Refrain} Well we hadn't been there but an hour or two / How I wish... When a voice said: Gimme some homemade brew And Steeleye Stan hove into view {Refrain} Now Steeleye Stan was a frightening man / How I wish... He was eight feet tall and four feet wide He said: Pass that jug or I'll tan your hide {Refrain} Stan took one sip and pitched on his side / How I wish... Garnet was smashed with a gut full of dregs And his breath set fire to both me legs {Refrain} So here I lay in me twenty-third beer / How I wish... It's been ten years since I felt this way On the night before my wedding day {Refrain} |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Leadfingers Date: 19 Jun 12 - 05:47 AM I was thinking the post from Guest Watney's Fan USA fitted in well as Watneys Red Barrel as served in UK pus was definately a parody on a decent pint , though EXPORT Red Barrel at least tasted like beer , even if it was on the low S G side |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,Don Wise Date: 19 Jun 12 - 04:25 AM To go slightly off course here.........I remember some people producing so-called mini-ballads which were,in a sense,parodies of the originals: "The gallant frigate Amphitrite She sank in Plymouth Sound" "Are you going to Scarborough Fair? No." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Haruo Date: 19 Jun 12 - 02:22 AM There's another "Grey Flannel Line" sung hereabouts, not about sewing but about men's suit-salesmen. Will post it if I can find it (I don't have it memorized, alas, or thank goodness). |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Joe_F Date: 08 Apr 09 - 08:27 PM A maraschino cherry, it has no stone. Chicken a la king, it has no bone. The story of stupidity, it has no end. A baby when it's strangled, there's no crying. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Joe_F Date: 08 Apr 09 - 08:25 PM N.B. It would be idle to object to the use of the word "parody" in this thread, which is well established in the folkie community; but it may be worth noting that that is not the proper literary meaning of the word. A parody, properly, is an imitation that makes fun of the style of the author of the original. The "parodies" in this thread are more accurately pastiches. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Date: 08 Apr 09 - 02:40 AM Sung to 'Good Vibrations' by the Beach Boys.. I'm pickin' up a new vibrator You can have my old puh-tater oooh wap bop oooh bop wop bop Good vibrations..... Ok, this one might be a little 'offensive' so you might want to skip over it... <<<<<<(disclaimer) Sung to 'All My Lovin' by The Beatles.... Close your eyes, spread your legs And I'll fertilize your eggs And won't get off, till I'm through.. And in while I'm away.. I'll beat off every day And send all my drippings to you. All My drippings..All my drippings...All my drippings, All my drippings..Darlin' its just goo.... |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Joe_F Date: 07 Apr 09 - 08:37 PM 1. And the sharks they played melodeons At the bottom of the sea. 2. Country songs made me rich And a son of a bitch. Alas, I only remember those fragments. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: dick greenhaus Date: 07 Apr 09 - 12:18 PM One of the best-crafted parodies I've encountered was by Barry Sandler (of Green Berets fame); a fine example of clever right-wing composition: UNIVERSAL PACIFIST He's five foot two and he's six foot four And he fights with marches and with tears He's all of sixty-one and he's just fourteen He's been a pacifist a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Quaker, and Atheist, a Jew A Buddhist or whatever he would be He knows he should be still and he knows he never will He doesn't have the courage to be free And he doesn't love Canada, he doesn't love France He doesn't love the USA He doesn't love the Russians but he helps them all he can He thinks he'll put an end to war that way And he's selling out democracy, he's fighting for the Reds He says that it is for the peace of all He's the one who must decide to surrender to the tide And he never sees the writing on the wall But without him how could Hitler have ever conquered France Without him Caesar would have faced a wall He's the one who sells his soul as the weapon of cold war And without him freedom's armies would not fail He's the universal pacifist, his placards all declare He has no home or love worth fighting for Without him men could all be free and brothers don't you see This is not the way to put an end to war _____ parody of Universal Soldier ÿUNIVSOLDÿ @war @political @parody filename[ UNIVPACF TUNE FILE: UNIVSOLD CLICK TO PLAY SOF |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,The Sage of Reason Date: 07 Apr 09 - 09:55 AM No doubt Paul Keene had been listening to Sheb Wooley (Actor in many westerns usually badman parts. He was also Pete Nolan in the TV sereies Wagon Train) & Singer (most famously for The One-eyed, One-horned, Flying, Purple People Eater) who performed a cabaret act under the name Ben Colder and drunkenly spoofed the famous country songs of the day. He had the ability to imitate the originals very well. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,stewart Date: 14 Jul 08 - 05:53 PM Eric Bogle is Scottish |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,David Taylor. taylorsmallbiz@mailcity.com Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:55 AM HELP!!!! I have been chasing all over the net, trying to hunt down a Willy McBride parody I heard part of once in a documentary on Irish Pubs. The story thread is that a man is trying to have a quiet drink and someone is ruining his peace by singing an interminable version of No Mans Land, aka. The green fields of france. I think the Crawford Howard version may be the one I'm looking for. Strange coincidence, the original song was written by Eric Bogle, an Australian. I,m writing from Melbourne Australia in the hope that Crawford Howard has made a recording of this song, if it's the right one. Can you please advise if I have the correct song and if so, does such a recording exist. Crawford Howard hardly makes a ripple on the net, so you are by far my best hope. Please reply to David Taylor, taylorsmallbiz@mailcity.com P.S. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: YorkshireYankee Date: 12 Apr 04 - 09:13 PM Oh, dear... I haven't killed this thread, have I? Larry K -- amen on Allan Sherman & the Capitol Steps. Also just about any parody by Les Barker. Some of my faves have already been mentioned above, including The Folker, Garnet's Home Made Beer, The Rolling Mills of New Jersey, Cosmic & Freaky, and Modern Folk Musician. Herewith, a few more of my favourite parodies: Little Boxes (Made of Plexiglass) (Little Boxes (Made of Ticky-Tacky)) Joanna Cazden The Murderous Little Toy (The Marvelous Little Toy) Mike Roberts All Around My Fat (All Around My Hat) Penny Ward Rollin' Down To Bethlehem (Rollin' Down To Old Maui) Flawn Williams Getting Out With a P.H.D. (Rollin' Down To Old Maui) Ted Hodapp Slowing Down To Lethargy (Rollin' Down To Old Maui) Toby Fagenson Gonna Send You My Bio (On The Bayou) Pat Donohue The Winter Time is Comin' (Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go) Robin Laing You Can't Keep Me From Singing (How Can I Keep From Singing) Gordon MacDonald, Jr How can I Keep From Eating (How Can I Keep From Singing) Russell Aminzade & Sandy Pliskin (am not sure of this, it's my best guess after doing a Google search) Roseville Fair, Part II (Roseville Fair) Sue Trainor Fashion's Fol de Rol (don't know the song -- some English drinking song, I think) Sue Trainor Will the Turtle Be Unbroken (Will the Circle Be Unbroken) Les Barker Re-Installing Windows (When I'm Washing Windows) Les Barker Everything Glows (Anything Goes) Les Barker Finally (if I may be so bold), I will include here the words to a "sewing chantey" I discovered deep in the dusty archives a few years ago. It's called "GREY FLANNEL LINE" & appears to be by the little-known seamstress-songwriter Carol Tawney... I work my shift, day after day Sew thermal undies, all in grey Perhaps pyjamas, now & then But then it's back to kecks again It's one more day on the grey flannel line Don't mind the grain nor an open seam A button fly never worries me But the dullest time in a boring day Is to watch the knickers roll away It's one more day on the grey flannel line No silks or satins do I sew Them pants & vests, they come & go Even when corsets roll on by It's still so boring I could cry Just one more stay on the grey flannel line Oh Lord, if dreams were only real I'd get my hands on some satin teal Make racy shreds to help me score And work the grey flannel line no more Cheers, YY |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: YorkshireYankee Date: 11 Apr 04 - 10:59 PM Loved the IBM Computer parody! I love parodies too... would have trouble picking just one (will have to think about it). But -- will post this now, because the link will only be active for another day or so -- til 11.30 a.m. Tuesday 13th April (British Summer Time). Here is a link (in the second column from the left -- titled "Listen to the Latest Programmes", sixth one down) to "Follow That with Your Sea Lions!" a recent BBC radio programme on comedy in British Folk Clubs; you can hear Fred Wedlock singing "The Folker" as well as Jasper Carrot, Max Boyce, Billy Connolly and (dare I mention his name?) Mike Harding... and more. After 11.30 on Tues, if you click on the same link you will get part 2 of the same programme, which will be available for a week. (After 20th April, it will be a different programme again, but prolly on a completely different subject -- I don't know what, 'cos I don't have the Radio Times for that week yet.) Anyway... enjoy! Cheers, YY |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 11 Apr 04 - 08:31 PM I think you will find that the last post is a plant - to get people to send their email address in reply - I suspect that this is just an another e-mail address harvesting ploy. Robin |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,WATNEY'S FAN USA Date: 11 Apr 04 - 03:26 PM HI - I HAVE A QUESTION ? DO THEY STILL BREW WATNEY'S ? I WAS TOLD THEY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS SOME YEARS AGO. IT WAS MY FAVORITE. I'D ALMOST FLY TO ENGLAND TO GET SOME.... THANKS, SCREAMINTOMMYJ@NETSCAPE.NET |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Dead Horse Date: 10 Mar 04 - 07:16 PM I heard this parody of Rueben Ranzo from an Australian singer, but had to fill in most of the lyrics due to poor memory...... SON OF A SEA DOG Well its poor old rotten Bonzo, Bonzo, boys, Bonzo Yes it's poor old rotten Bonzo, Bonzo me boys, Bonzo Bonzo was a scabby mutt. A pedigree he was anything but Bonzo was no spaniel. His name was not Nathaniel Bonzo was no hound dog. For he was just a brown dog He was no retriever. So don't let that deceive yer Bonzo was a loner. Hated by his owner His owner wanted a gun dog. But found he had a bum dog The thing that was absurd is. He was afraid of birdies A partridge or a plover. Would make him run for cover He tried his hand at rattin'. But soon he too packed that in For Bonzo was afraid of rats. Even ran away from cats Bonzo made his owner weep. "I'll have that mongrel put to sleep" When Bonzo met a lady hound. She'd sniff his bum and away she'd bound Tried to mate with a smelly old slipper. Got his pecker caught in the zipper So Bonzo had no babies. He finally died of scabies We didn't bury him off Cape Horn. Just dug a hole near the edge of the lawn His shroud was made of something cheap. That we found on the old dung heap Dug his grave with rusty trowel. Dogs nearby they did not howl Buried him in an old ruck-sack. Buried him deep so he don't come back Lowered him down with the toe of a boot. And on his grave no cross was put So Bonzo he is dead and gone. Bloody good job, says everyone Well its poor old rotten Bonzo, Bonzo, boys, Bonzo Its poor old rotten Bonzo, Bonzo me boys, Bonzo |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: GUEST,Tinker from Chicago Date: 05 Mar 04 - 12:41 PM Just a guest, but may I add mine? I've gotten a lot of airplay out of this, plus some nasty e-mails from Ariel Rogers. The IBM Computer (to the tune of "The Mary Ellen Carter") by Brian Leo ©1999 She went down at 9:30 in a show'r of data bits. The screen went dark just after having ee-lectronic fits. There'll be no work today, boys, till the screens come back again, so we might as well sit back and play some gin. There was just us five around her when we found we couldn't sign on. We cried, "Oh, hell. Today, sir, let's just give up and be gone." But the boss said we should sit there, so we grumbled in disdain: would our IBM computer rise again? Well, the help desk wrote us off. There was nothing they could do. "The mainframe's in Wisconsin in a barn in Baraboo. "We'll surely think of something so you must have faith, my friends." Then they laughed at us and said to write with...pens! We grouched until twelve-thirty with naught to do but sit. "They spent a quarter million on this worthless, high-tech...stuff!" And with ev'ry cup that we drank up the boss said to remain in case our IBM computer'd rise again. Rise again, rise again, lest her data be lost to the knowledge of men. All those who want to work, not just sit here and pretend, pray that their IBM computers rise again. All morning they've been with her, sixteen programmers or more, intoning cryptic phrases like some ancient priests of yore. Some keypunch in the front while others poke around in back, but still the screen's a cold, forbidding black. They dance and burn some incense and they make an awful din. Till one small voice says, "Tell you what. Let's plug the damned thing in." Behold! the screen's a-glitter and the mouse says, "Where you been? "Come watch your IBM computer rise again!" (chorus) For we couldn't leave her there, you see, like men who have no hearts. She'd saved our jobs so many times with color-graphic charts. And the laughing ones who'd said, "She's done. It's time to buy a Mac," they won't be laughing when the screens come back. And you to whom "computer" means a box that leaves you cold, with servers, passwords, Windows, ROMs and modules and modes, reboot, and punch a thousand keys and cuss awhile and then make your IBM computer, rise again! Rise again, rise again! though your fingers be broken and the input has no end. No matter what you've lost, be it a chart, a graph, a plan, like your IBM computer, rise again! |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: ced2 Date: 05 Mar 04 - 06:13 AM Maybe I missed a word out SRS try in the third line: Baby, if you say that you'll be mine. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Joybell Date: 04 Mar 04 - 05:26 PM Cobber, we must have crossed paths a time or two. I was Melbourne born and raised and spent all my Friday nights at Frank Traynor's during the 60s. I'm out among the sheep now, and there is a parody of mine, set among the shearing, on the "Help with my knitting thread" You might enjoy it. Cheers Joy |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: NoMattch Date: 04 Mar 04 - 03:32 PM Come on Seamus Kennedy?!?! You have to have a favourite. See you at Brittinghams this weekend. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Mar 04 - 11:41 AM I have that "twine" parody on tape around here somewhere--only one verse. The word are a little different--these don't scan identically to the original. (Specifically, the "Baby" in there doesn't seem to fit). Chances of my ever finding the tape that a song that size is on are scarce, so I'm relying on memory for this, and I could be wrong. SRS |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: JennyO Date: 04 Mar 04 - 11:31 AM Thanks John. I'll follow that up as soon as I get back from my relaxing weekend with a bunch of like-minded folk at Snalbans. Roll on tomorrow night! Jenny |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: cloudstreet Date: 04 Mar 04 - 08:11 AM To JennyO, Martin's words for black painting are on his solo live album - you can email him at pearsonmartin@hotmail.com. John |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: ced2 Date: 04 Mar 04 - 06:50 AM My late friend Paul Keene had 2 excellent parodies. The first a parody of one of the best known Johnny Cash songs, I walk the line. as follows:- I keep a close watch on this love of mine, I keep my pants tied with a piece of twine. Baby, if you say you'll be mine, Come round some time, I'll cut the twine. The other to be sung when there were either too many "finger in left lug-ole" merchants or those that were there were taking the music too seriously was a wonderful piss-take on the Voyage of the Calabar. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 03 Mar 04 - 08:41 PM Well, whadyaknow? They were in the 'trad all along, Mark... Sorry for the intrusion... Dees 'r dem: MICKEY'S MOUSEKETEERS (Bob Pasquarello & John Krumm) Oh the year was 1955, How I wish I had some sherbert now, Disney turned the cameras on And yelled for "Places, everyone!" Gosh darn them all, I was told We'd watch TV 'til we grew old See the same old programs every year Now I'm a broken man with these silly ears The last of Mickey's Mouseketeers! Every day right after school How I wish I had some sherbert now Yes every single afternoon, I'd watch those Meesekar- Mousekartoons I had a crush on dear Annette, How I wish I had some sherbert now And my poor heart still gives a flutter When I eat Skippy Peanut Butter Oh the year was 1959 How I wish I had some sherbert now Turned the TV on and thought it odd, No "Spin & Marty," no Jimmy Dodd! But now I've got my VCR How I wish I had some sherbert now And every single afternoon I watch re-runs of Mousekartoons Gosh darn them all, I was told We'd watch TV 'til we grew old See the same old programs every year Now I'm a broken man with these silly ears The last of Mickey's Mouseketeers! Like I said, I've never made it all the way though, without a major break-up... ;^) ttr |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: the lemonade lady Date: 03 Mar 04 - 11:43 AM Soave, Soave by Schantieman (Tune: Sovay, Sovay (trad.); New words by Steve Freedman) Found in Aine's Mudcat song book. #8-D Sal |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: JennyO Date: 03 Mar 04 - 10:51 AM Personally, I think this is an improvement :-) |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: cloudstreet Date: 03 Mar 04 - 10:44 AM From my Aussie mate, Martin Pearson (we play together as "Never the Twain" for those who aren't lucky enough to be Australian) - The Gandalf Song (To the tune of Country Roads) Almost Heaven, old West Farthing Misty Mountains, Brandywine River Life is short there, shorter than four feet You can always trust a hobbit if he's got enough to eat Chorus The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now ever on, the road has gone And I must follow if I can Shadowfax me down to Rohan Minas Tirith is where I must be goin The ring is nasty, but I've got to know for sure Got to find those old rolled up scrolls of Isildur I hear the voices of Sauron, they call to me Saruman advises me to give the drugs away Sitting on the tower I get the feeling big bird's coming soon I'll fly away, Glad to be Grey. Joined the company, they're going to need a seer To lead them through the dusty caverns of Moria Found a balrog, down by Balin's tomb I wish they'd had a safety net installed in Kazad Dhum. I have great reservations about the idea that this parody damaging the popularity of the original. John |
Subject: RE: Favourite Parodies From: Mark Cohen Date: 03 Mar 04 - 12:30 AM TTR, I don't know the words to the Mouseketeers song. I think I had them written down once. In fact, as I recall I had them with me and sang it at Singtime Frolics a few years ago...which is probably why you made the perfectly reasonable assumption that I know the words. But I don't. Sorry. Aloha, Mark PS Thanks, Maggie, if that was for me. |
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