# Are there any songs you can't listen to without thinking of a parody? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 28, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045 "2021-11-28T05:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/101 "2021-11-30T20:08:46Z")
I’ll submit one of my own. When my children and I sing the Christmas song, “Do You Hear What I Hear”, it always goes like this: Said the cat to the people everywhere Do you see what I have? Underneath my tail, everyone Do you see what I have? It’s pink, it’s pink And it doesn’t stink ‘Cause I wash it with my-y tongue Yes, I wash it with my tongue. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/102 "2021-11-30T20:21:04Z")
Speaking of the Simpsons all think about now when I hear “In gadda da vidda” is this Simpsons parodying it with the whole church singing “In the Garden of Eden”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qSCUhqsy4Nk/hqdefault.jpg "The Simpsons - In the Garden of Eden") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSCUhqsy4Nk) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/103 "2021-11-30T20:23:23Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Gangsters paradise. Then Weird Al’s Amish paradise goes through my head rest of the day. SAME. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/104 "2021-11-30T20:42:54Z")
_I remember portions of a verse that had the teacher getting into a motorcycle wreck and “she was lying in the grass with a muffler up her ass and her tits were playing music on the spokes"_ **BobLibDem** , I bet you’re thinking of “She’ll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain” for the tune. I had by own horrid lyrics for that one (which really ought to be spoiler-blurred but darned if I can find square brackets on this phone): He was driving on Ortega\* doing ninety When he passed on the wrong side of the hill They found him in the river With the stick shift through his liver And his face pressed like a waffle through the grill. \*California state route 74 ---
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> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Not that I often hear “Strangers in the Night,” but when I do, those sophomoric lyrics come right back to me. Had a coworker who could croon with the best of them, and in the midst of a late-night deadline push at work, he’d stick his head in my office and do a great Sinatra: _Stranger in the night…_ _You’re weird in the daylight,_ _but you’re_ _stranger in the night…_ ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/106 "2021-12-01T02:28:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I remember portions of a verse that had the teacher getting into a motorcycle wreck and “she was lying in the grass with a muffler up her ass and her tits were playing music on the spokes” (To the tune of "She’ll Be Comin’ 'Round the Mountain) She was going ‘round the corner doin’ 90 When the chain on her motorcycle broke Well they found her in the grass With the muffler up her ass And her tits playing Dixie on the spokes ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/107 "2021-12-01T03:52:08Z")
I have no idea what the original Lyrics to ‘The Beverley Hillbillies’ are. The dirty schoolyard version, however… ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/108 "2021-12-01T04:06:47Z")
Heard a piano in one of Mrs. Cad’s Christmas movies playing Come All Ye Faithful and couldn’t help singing, “Miiiiind over matter makes a protozoooooan.” _Christmas Amoeba_ by Steve Lyon the Doctor. ---
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Know any golfers? Get them “Jake Trout and the Flounders”. Features Peter Jacobson, Payne Stewart (late), Mark Lye and actual professional musicians. Example is “Love the One You Whiff”. [love the one you’re with]. Complete with Glenn Frey from the Eagles singing and playing. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F8t1VkP7r3U/maxresdefault.jpg "Love the One You Whiff") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8t1VkP7r3U) Also commentary from Arnold Palmer, John Daley, Lee Trevino and others. Alice Cooper (big time amature golfer) does “I’m on Eighteen” [I’m Eighteen] along with a “hidden version” [those were once popular on albums] as a “Rap” version. > **[Jake Trout and the Flounders - I Love to Play - Amazon.com Music](https://www.amazon.com/Love-Play-Jake-Trout-Flounders/dp/B00000634H)** > > Jake Trout - I Love To Play All parodies of popular songs. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/110 "2021-12-01T06:46:51Z")
I can’t hear Annie’s Song without thinking “You came on my piiiiiillllloooow!”. An example of the Streisand Effect before the internet was invented. I would never have heard that lyric if it wasn’t for John Denver making such a fuss about it. There is an exceedingly crass Australian comedian who calls himself Rodney Rude who sang “Like a well hung ploughboy” to the tune of “Like a Rhinestone Cowboy”. I had certain friends at college who sung it incessantly, which still causes the Rude version lyrics to come to mind whenever I hear the song. ---
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> [@Wallaby](#): > > I have no idea what the original Lyrics to ‘The Beverley Hillbillies’ are. > > The dirty schoolyard version, however… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OvE9zJgm8OY/hqdefault.jpg "The Beverly Hillbillies Opening and Closing Theme 1962 - 1971 HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvE9zJgm8OY&t=32) Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” came on the radio yesterday, and I immediately thought of “Little Stevie Byner’s” version of it on _ **Bizarre** _. Producer Bob Einstein comes on stage and “stops” it deadpan after the first thirty seconds or so because “It’s offensive. John, you’re not even black. You’re a red-headed Irishman.” I’ve looked everywhere for a clip of this, but can’t seem to find one. It is hilarious, especially the ending, where Bob and John leave the studio together and Byner is is drag. ---
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> [@Princhester](#): > > I can’t hear Annie’s Song without thinking “You came on my piiiiiillllloooow!”. An example of the Streisand Effect before the internet was invented. I would never have heard that lyric if it wasn’t for John Denver making such a fuss about it. Was he objecting to the lyric or the portrayal of him being strangled? ---
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> [@Princhester](#): > > I can’t hear Annie’s Song without thinking “You came on my piiiiiillllloooow!”. An example of the Streisand Effect before the internet was invented. I would never have heard that lyric if it wasn’t for John Denver making such a fuss about it. > > There is an exceedingly crass Australian comedian who calls himself Rodney Rude who sang “Like a well hung ploughboy” to the tune of “Like a Rhinestone Cowboy”. I had certain friends at college who sung it incessantly, which still causes the Rude version lyrics to come to mind whenever I hear the song. A coworker once told me (almost 20 years ago) that there was a dirty version of Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ la Vida Loca” on the Internet titled “I Am a Penis Stroker.” Sadly, as with “Little Stevie Byner,” I’ve never been able to find that clip. ☹ ---
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**NB:** That _ **Beverly Hillbillies** _ clip is _not_ a colorized B&W opening from the first four years of the show. As with _ **Gilligan’s Island** _, the original opening was reshot in 1966, the year all US TV networks switched to full-color broadcasting. (Reruns continued to be in B&W, though, until Turner introduced colorization in the '80s.) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045/115 "2021-12-01T13:25:13Z")
I don’t know ---
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> [@dorvann](#): > > Speaking of the Simpsons all think about now when I hear “In gadda da vidda” is this Simpsons parodying it with the whole church singing “In the Garden of Eden”: You do know, don’t you, that the writer, Doug Ingle, was trying to say “In the garden of Eden”, but was too drunk and it came out “in-a-godda-da-vida”. The Simpsons were just reverse-drunk translating. > [@plankter](#): > > I bet you’re thinking of “She’ll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain” for the tune. And, now, thanks to Miracle Workers, any time I hear that, I can only think of Daniel Radcliff in buttless chaps… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RAxsEWBz4t4/maxresdefault.jpg "Daniel Radcliffe - She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes - Miracle Workers Season 3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxsEWBz4t4) > [@Princhester](#): > > I can’t hear Annie’s Song without thinking “You came on my piiiiiillllloooow!”. Ditto. ---
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Get your facts straight, Stern left DC on his own to go to New York. He wanted a multiyear contract but WWDC only offered 1 year. He wasn’t fired. ---
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Another thread reminded me… Any time I hear the tune to the theme of Raiders of the Lost Ark, I think of this guy who parodies all of the various John Williams themes using lyrics based on different movies. So you have the RotLA theme with “Kiss a wookie, kick a droid” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lk5_OSsawz4/maxresdefault.jpg "Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man) a cappella tribute music medley - Corey Vidal and Moosebutter") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4) ---
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My lyrics for the Star Wars theme were > Star Wars > Beautiful Star Wars > Beautiful Star Wars > Lasers and guns! And an unrelated parody > Glory, glory hallelujah > Teacher hit me with a ruler > I met her at the door > With a loaded 44 > And she ain’t gonna teach no more. ---
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> [@74westy](#): > > Glory, glory hallelujah > Teacher hit me with a ruler > I met her at the door > With a loaded 44 > And she ain’t gonna teach no more. Yeah, that one’s a lot less funny now than it was when I was a child. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-you-cant-listen-to-without-thinking-of-a-parody/955045.md?page=7)