Another one of MAD Magazine’s “Songs of Food”:
Sung to the tune of “Moon River”:
Chopped liver,
onions on the side,
my social life has died
from you.
My friends
shun me,
they outrun me,
the smell of my breath
is slow death,
sad but true.
But I know
your smell
will not end.
Always I’ll offend,
my halitosis friend.
Chopped liver
in me!
Mull of Kintyre, although I don’t remember the parody. Someone from Sheffield sang it once and I thought it was hilarious (which means nothing, 30 years later). I’ve poked around online without finding it. It’s not “Mulligan’s Tires” or the one about soccer (football).
Another is The Monkees’ Daydream Believer and the line “I dance like Axl Rose in my fruity sixties clothes.” Can’t find it online, either. I see references to it but not the whole thing.
On Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray had some hilarious bits as a lounge singer whose name was either Nick Winters or Nick Summers, depending on the time of year, as I recall. He was parodying singers rather than songs, but he made an indelable impression on me with his renditions of the theme from Star Wars (mentioned upthread) and especially Scarborough Fair.
This one?
My favorite was his theme from Hawaii Five-O, which went something like this…
There’s a man named McGarrett,
and he gets lots of sun.
There’s a man named McGarrett,
and he packs a gun!
… It’s Hawaii Five-O!
I left out the best part:
Your odor’s
twice as bad as beer,
and people who drink beer
agree!
@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper and @terentii:
Yep, dem’s de ones!
It just happened: The store speakers were playing an instrumental version of “Angels We Have Heard On High” and my mind immediately filled in the second line with Tom Lehrer’s “tell us to go out and buy”
As soon as I read “Angels we have heard on high”, I filled in Tom Lehrer, too!
Pretty much anything Weird Al has parodied is ruined for me.
Also, Hey There Delilah
and I Only Want To Be With You
The version my brothers taught me would get us all arrested, or at least expelled these days:
“Glory glory Hallelujah. Teacher hit me with a ruler. Shot her with a rusty forty-twoooooo-er, now the teacher ain’t a teacher any more”.
I think mine scans better than yours.
Last night, I heard Madonna’s “La Isla Bonita” while I was in the car, and was reminded of the parody lyric that my college roommate used to sing (and which I always “hear” when I hear Madonna’s song).
Instead of “Last night, I dreamt of San Pedro,” I hear, “Last night, I ate my sombrero!”
My school’s was “Glory glory Hallelujah. Teacher hit me with a ruler. Hit her in the butt with a rotten coconut, and she ain’t gonna teach no more”
My wife hears this as “Last night I dreamed of Salt Bagels”
My father always heard “Guantanamero” as “One Ton of Metal”. which scans and fits the stresses much better than the more popular “One Ton Tomato”
“Like A Surgeon”, definitely.
There’s also the “Stairway To Heaven” parody performed by a short-lived band for which I played keyboards, which featured lines such as:
Injuries by the brook
where a submarine sinks
Sometimes olives are trout,
with pimentos
Apparently he has a show which can be heard on Internet radio.
Too bad he self-destructed as an on-air personality. He did some great (if gross) stuff back in the days when I picked up his show while commuting in the Philadelphia area (circa 1995).
Monty Python
Every time I hear NWA’s Boyz N’ The Hood, I can’t help but think about Dynamite Hack’s wonderful acoustic finger-picking cover.
Then of course, are David Prowse’s (the original guy in the Vader suit) version:
Star Wars
Made me a fortune
Paid of the mortgage
Bought me a car.
Then there’s the parody that is not only a more upbeat song than the original, but even got a movie made around it:
Born in East L.A.