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Literature And Writting Satyrical Lyrics Essay Research

Literature And Writting Satyrical Lyrics Essay, Research Paper


September 13, 2000


Literature and Writting


Satyrical Lyrics


My sense of humor today was influensed by song song parodies that i sang as a child. Wether I relied it or not, much of it was satirical. Satire is my most favorite form of comedy. Unfourdunatly, sometimes I would learn the words of the variation before the actual lyrics. When I was in second or third grade, during a christmas vespers servise, the church started to sing ?Joy to the World.? I was very excited because I knew the song, I sang Jubilatly through the first verse, but then there was asecond verse that I had never heard before, I did however know another verse which went something like


Joy to the world


My teacher’s Dead


We barbequed her heaad


We disembowed her body


And flushed it down the potty


And round and round it goes


And round and round it goes


And round and round and round it goes


My mother had a diffret opinion about how the song went and as a result we had a little chat about when it was aproprae to sing certain songs, and which songs there was never an approprate time to sing.


Another song in which was ?never an approprate time to sing? was a version we three kings that made more sense tan the actual one. When I was in elementary school ?orient are? sounded like one word, and I had no idea where Orientar was or which star the Yonder star was, basicly the whole song was jumbled words until my third grade class was sitting at the cafateria lunch tables, waiting for lunch and I heard an uproar of laughter at the bench across from me, and being a nosey third graded, as third graders are know to be, I absolutly had to know what they were laughing at. A little third grade boy had sung for his group of admirers the absluly most creaive, humrus thing that we hat ever heard in our entire lives or at least in the past five minutes, he sang for us a very soulful rendition of the once jibberish song about the kings from Orientare to a song where the kings smoked a ?loaded rubber cigar? that exploded, who christmas could be so muchfun?


Little did I realise how closely related christmas was to school. For instance, rather than decking the halls with bows of holly, we could Deck the halls with gasoline and then light a match and watch it gleam. (those were the first two lines in case you?re a little slow, the rest of the lines are as follows:Now our school’s burned down to ashes, and Aren’t you glad you played with matches?)


Becase at that age school was a main part of our lives, the main subject of the song parodies had to do with school as well, often times poking fun at teachers. The first song of this nature that I learned was sung to the tune of row, row, row your boat.


Row row row your boat


Gently down the stream


Throw your teacher overboard and


And listen to her scream


Five days later


She got eaten by a polar bear


Poor ol’ polar bear died


Aparently teachers were so bad that the would kill polarbears if they ate a teacher. If rowing your boat wasn?t your thing thing there is an easier way. Bill Wellington of Radio oof taught this song to my brother and sister through a tpe and to the entire class of Spotswood Elementary School through a live performance exclusively for the children of the shenedoah valley. His version went like this


I’m Chiquita Banana


And I’m here to say


Get rid of your teacher


? The easy way


? You have a banana peel


? And drop it on da floor


? And watch your teacher


? Go flying out de door


I still have Never heard the actual words to the Ciquita Banana Song, maybe such a song doesn?t exist. Bill Wellington was full choral comedy. One song that I?m sure drove my parentsmad, worse than the banana song, was based on the battle hymn choral. This song actualy had a plot, it was imitating what the teacher suposidly sang about in the teachers lounge.


Mine eyes have seen the glory of the flunking of the kids


Who never did their homework and never worked a lick


They only whined and gave excuses in every thing they did


Our pens go marching on


glory glory hallelujah


Gee I’m really glad I knew ya


Holy moly what’s it to ya


Our pens are marking on


Now we’ll give this one an “F”


And we’ll give this one a “D”


We’ll give this one a failure


And we’ll give this one a “C”


Bill we’re going at it with a gruesome ghoulish glee


Are pens are marking on


glory glory hallelujah


Gee I’m really glad I know ya


Holy moly what’s it to ya


Our pens are marking on


They threw rubber bands and spitballs


And they called us not nice names


Their behavior wasn’t modified


By therapeutic games


And everybody really knows


The parents are to blame


Our pens are marking on


The Battle Hymn Choral was fairly popular for parodies, I only had the oppertunity to learn two versions. The second one that I learned was recited on the balcony of my parents balcony on summer evening after my friend, Annie, came back from girl scout camp. i?m not sure if these are the actual words but this is how I remember them to be.


Oh I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it’s hot


And I wear my flannel nighty in the winter when it’s not


And sometimes in the spring


And sometimes in the fall


I jump between the covers with nothing on at all


glory glory hallelujah


Beastly breezes blowin through ya


Holy moly what’s it to ya


With nothing on at all


Annie was full of songs from girl scout camp but she had pink eye and had to go home but she did remember one more. It was a song about underware to the tune of ?God Bless America.? When I first heard it I didn?t know the tune of ?God Bless America,? let alone the lyrics so this might be a little dstorted from the official Girl Scout ?God Bless my Underware? song


God bless my underwear


My only pair


From the washer to the drier to my rear


God bless my underwear


My only pair


Parodies of Cristmas songs and patriotic songs are prufuse because mot of the common population knows them


?This land is my land


?It is not your land


?I got a shotgun


?And you ain’t got one


?If you don’t get off


?I’ll blow your head off


?This land is private property


In church one Sunday, the choir sang joyful joyful, and I was surprised


to here it had the same tune as a soong we often sang on car rides to my


grand parents house.


?When you bought me my Nintendo


?I thought you were really keen


?Now that you have hidden it


?Think that you are really mean


?Just because I’m flunking math


?And science that is no excuse


?I have never heard of a more blatant case of child abuse


One time I was sight reading through a fiddle book I had just gotten and


I recoonized the tune was similar to the tune of a song I had learned


years before, I doon’t remember the name oof the actual tune but I do


remember the words of the song


?Oh there one was this radical kid


?He was cool at all he did


?He said, “Hey dude”


?And was really rude


?And he did 360s on his skateboard too


?He wore cool surfer clothes


?He had earrings in his nose


?He talked in jive


?And gave high fives


?And he was cool where ever he goes


?Oh this awesome dude is Gnarly Road Rash


?He is a real flash


?He makes a big splash


?And while on his skateboard he is flying


?All the girls are sighing


?As the call his name “oh Gnarly Road Rash”


This was a popular song everytime we ate spaghetti


?On top of spaghetti


?All covered with cheese


?I lost my poor meatball


?When somebody sneezed


?It rolled off the table


?And on to the floor


?And then my poor meatball


?Rolled out through the door


?It rolled through a garden


?And under a bush


?And then my poor meatball


?Was nothing but mush


?So if you like spaghetti


?All covered with cheese


?Hold on to your meatball


?When somebody sneeze


While I was taking violin lessons, one of the first songs that I learned


was Lightly Row. One night I played it for my grandpa over the telephone


and these were the words that he taught me, as far as I know they are


not the right ones


?Baby bye, here’s a fly


?He I watching you and I


?There he goes, on his toes


?Tickling babies nose


?I believe on those six legs


?You and I could walk on eggs


?There he goes, on his toes


?Tickling ba

by’s nose


There was a kid in my children’s choir named Jared Stoltzfus and his


mom’s name was Bonnie, we used to sing him this song to make him mad.


?My body lies over the ocean


?My body lies over the sea


?My body lies over the ocean


?So bring back my body to me


?Bring back, bring back


?Bring back my body to me


?Bring back, bring back


?Bring back my body to me


At kids b-day parties when yourparents forsed you to sing, this often


got laught, of at least a glare or two


?Happy birthday to you


?You live in a zoo


?You look act like a monkey


?And you eat like one too


?Happy birthday to you


?You live in a zoo


?You look look like a skunk


?And you smell like one too


I remember when I read the book Ramona Quimby and she knew the exact


song that I knew, it was a very special day.


?Here comes the bride


?Fair fat and wide


?Where is the groom?


?He’s in the bathroom


?Why is he there?


?He lost his underwear


?Singin’ with the usher


?The old toilet flusher


This was a soong that was a little more dangerous to sing because it


used the word “wiener,” sometimes when our parents were around we would


substitute the word peter for wiener


?I’m Popeye the sailor man (toot toot)


?I live n a garbage can (toot toot)


?I turned on the heater


?And blew off my wiener


?I’m Popeye the sailor man (toot toot)


My nextdoor nneighbor, Carrie, tought me this one, she explained to me


that this was a great song because, as everyone know, cat farts smell


the worst, and I belived her.


Jingle bells, cat fart smells


Twenty-four hours a day


blows there nose in Cherieos


And eats the right away


this is one I learned lateer but never liked as much


Jingle bells, Batman smells


Robiiin laid an egg


Batmobile lost a wheel


and Joker took ballet


When scholl was let out for Christmas or even on the play ground during


school we would skip around chanting songs of school being burned or


disembodied teaher heads


Joy to the world


My teacher’s Dead


We barbequed her heaad


We disembowed her body


And flushed it down the potty


And round and round it goes


And round and round it goes


And round and round and round it goes


Deck the halls with gasoline


Fa la la la la, la la la la


Light a match and watch it gleam


Fa la la la la, la la la la


Now our school’s burned down to ashes


Fa la la, la la la, la la la


Aren’t you glad you played with matches?


Fa la la la la, la la la la


This one I spesificaly remember being taught at the lunch table in


elementary school.


We three kings of Orient are


Tried to smoke a loaded cigar


It was loaded, and exploded


Following yonder star


This was sung to the same tune but was taught to me by my friend Annie


after retuning from Girl Scout camp while we were standing on the


balcony in my parents bed room


Another song that she taught us was a glorious song about underwear, to


this day I still don’t know the actual lyrics to “God Bless America”


“This Land is Your Land” is another patriotic song that I learned the


actual lyrics after the parody


In church one Sunday, the choir sang joyful joyful, and I was surprised


to here it had the same tune as a song we often sang on car rides to my


grand parents house.


One time I was sight-reading through a fiddle book I had just gotten and


I recognized the tune was similar to the tune of a song I had learned


years before, I don’t remember the name of the actual tune but I do


remember the words of the song


This was a popular song every time we ate spaghetti


While I was taking violin lessons, one of the first songs that I learned


was Lightly Row. One night I played it for my grandpa over the telephone


and these were the words that he taught me, as far as I know they are


not the right ones


There was a kid in my children’s choir named Jared Stoltzfus and his


mom’s name was Bonnie, we used to sing him this song to make him mad.


At kid’s b-day parties when your parents forced you to sing, this often


got laugh, of at least a glare or two


I remember when I read the book Ramona Quimby and she knew the exact


song that I knew, it was a very special day.


This was a song that was a little more dangerous to sing because it used


the word “wiener,” sometimes when our parents were around we would


substitute the word peter for wiener


My next door neighbor, Carrie, taught me this one, she explained to me


that this was a great song because, as everyone know, cat farts smell


the worst, and I believed her.


This is one I learned later but never liked as much


I never actually knew the real words to the Chiquita banana song, this


is what I learned


Often times on long bus ride we would make up lyrics to row row row your


boat, the most common one was this one but there were many variations.


This song was imitating what the teachers probably sang in the teachers


lounge when no kids were around


This was sung to the same tune but was taught to me by my friend Annie


after retuning from Girl Scout camp while we were standing on the


balcony in my parents bed room


Another song that she taught us was a glorious song about underwear, to


this day I still don’t know the actual lyrics to “God Bless America”


“This Land is Your Land” is another patriotic song that I learned the


actual lyrics after the parody


In church one Sunday, the choir sang joyful joyful, and I was surprised


to here it had the same tune as a song we often sang on car rides to my


grand parents house.


One time I was sight-reading through a fiddle book I had just gotten and


I recognized the tune was similar to the tune of a song I had learned


years before, I don’t remember the name of the actual tune but I do


remember the words of the song


This was a popular song every time we ate spaghetti


While I was taking violin lessons, one of the first songs that I learned


was Lightly Row. One night I played it for my grandpa over the telephone


and these were the words that he taught me, as far as I know they are


not the right ones


There was a kid in my children’s choir named Jared Stoltzfus and his


mom’s name was Bonnie, we used to sing him this song to make him mad.


At kid’s b-day parties when your parents forced you to sing, this often


got laugh, of at least a glare or two


I remember when I read the book Ramona Quimby and she knew the exact


song that I knew, it was a very special day.


This was a song that was a little more dangerous to sing because it used


the word “wiener,” sometimes when our parents were around we would


substitute the word peter for wiener


My next door neighbor, Carrie, taught me this one, she explained to me


that this was a great song because, as everyone know, cat farts smell


the worst, and I believed her.


This is one I learned later but never liked as much


Kate Schrock


September 13, 2000


Literature and Writing


????Blah, blah, blah, here is my thesis, it goes something like


this: folklore inn my child hood was sing song parodies, oohhh and by


thee waay, this keyboard ssucks, it keeps on doubling myy


lettttters!!!!!!!!


I neverr actualy knew the reall words tto the Chiquita banana song,


thiiis is what I learned


I’m Chiquita Banana


?And I’m here to say


?Get rid of your teacher


?The easy way


?You have a banana peel


?And drop it on da floor


?And watch your teacher


?Go flying out de door


Often times on long bus ride we would make up llyrrics to row roww row


your boat, the most common one was this one but there were many


variations.


?row row row your boat


?Gently down the stream


?Throw your teacher overboard and


?And listen to her scream


?Five days later


?She got eaten by a polar bear


?poor ol’ polar bear died


This song was imitating what the teachers probaply sang in the teachers


lounge when no kids were around


?


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