# COVID-19-inspired songs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 29, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559 "2020-03-29T02:34:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/1 "2020-03-29T02:34:15Z")
Since we had a thread about songs urging us to wash our hands, I thought, why not a thread about coronavirus-related songs I general?
Here are two I’ve heard and enjoyed:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykieEE1j9eA)
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0G63uzhFP4)
If you know of any others, post them here! I’ll give us more stuff to do while we’re flattening the curve.
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/2 "2020-03-29T03:31:32Z")
[Life in Quarantine](https://youtu.be/CCMAr6i1QYA), Benjamin Gibbard
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/3 "2020-03-29T04:17:56Z")
♫ _The coronavirus
Is keeping me at home
The coronavirus
Is keeping me at home
I went to my bookshelf
And picked me out a tome_ ♫
To the tune of _Re-enlistment Blues_. Maybe I’ll make up more later.
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/4 "2020-03-29T05:00:47Z")
Randy Rainbow, [Social Distancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimbyL_25Nw).
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/5 "2020-03-29T05:31:14Z")
It would be nice if people gave the title with the link.
Here is coronavirus Rhapsody
[https://youtu.be/8KPbJ0-DxTc](https://youtu.be/8KPbJ0-DxTc)
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/6 "2020-03-29T15:16:57Z")
Define related.
Here is a mashup of the 28 days later theme song with September by earth, wind and fire.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUo8MVg-IoE)
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/7 "2020-03-29T21:12:37Z")
Here’s a Corona-themed Broadway medley: [The Broadway Coronavirus Medley (RECORDED 3/21, INFO OUTDATED, PLEASE WEAR MASKS!) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1OCZRann8w)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/8 "2020-03-29T22:35:26Z")
“[Hands… washing hands. Reaching out Don’t touch me; I won’t touch you!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLgsV_Ms3Q)”
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### Author:  [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/9 "2020-03-29T22:37:53Z")
Since he’s in critical condition with the virus, anything by John Prine would work, goddammit it all
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/10 "2020-03-31T20:36:24Z")
Back on March 6th, I posted these parody lyrics meant to be sung to the tune of _The Twelve Days of Christmas_: [_Fourteen Days of Quar’ntine_](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22174813&postcount=62).
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### Author:  [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/11 "2020-03-31T22:39:16Z")
A few days ago I decided to check if anyone had recently recorded a parody of Boogie Fever by The Sylvers called [Cabin Fever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3-zeoyPD6g), which a check of Youtube determined did in fact exist.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/12 "2020-03-31T22:43:51Z")
Here’s “Germs” by Weird Al Yankovic. It’s an old song, done in the style of Nine Inch Nails.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqSKqS91UdA)
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/13 "2020-04-10T07:33:19Z")
Here is one I’ve just written, to the tune of [I Was Only 19 by Redgum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXxACZRx30)
Covid-19
Mum and Dad and Denny were not with us, they had stayed back on the farm,
We were all in isolation
It was just me and the girlfriend, together, twenty four by seven,
This was no vacation
So we sit down to our supper, our new favourite: rice and beans
Or as we now refer to it, apocalypse cuisine
And here we are in our slippers, and our PJs stripy green
Isolation, under Covid-19
Today we have a road trip, down to the corner store,
I hope that there is something left for us
In my mask and gloves, I scanned the barren shelves
There was nothing there remaining but the dust
Then someone called out “loo rolls!” and the crowd around me swarmed
We had been in there for hours, but they’ve run out, there’s no more,
So tonight it’s rice and beans and then back on to the latrine
Isolation, under Covid-19
Staring out the window, at the world we used to visit,
Trying to think of things that we can do,
Even junk mail’s looking interesting, when I had a great idea,
It’s something I can use in the loo
But it’s really a poor substitute causing lots of wear and tear,
Like the days back on the farm, when I could smell the dairy air
And this rash, that never goes, I know just what it means
This is the end, under Covid-19
We’ve seen disaster movies, but what they never mentioned, was the boredom
The days are on replay
So we tried a different movie, but it didn’t help at all, perhaps it was a bad choice:
Groundhog Day
And the news is so depressing, of that there is no doubt
Seeing a constant parade of people passing out
So we’ll stay in isolation till they make a new vaccine
Waiting, waiting, waiting, out Covid-19
And the rice and beans gets hard to eat, I can’t put it in my face
And then I found the problem, I had left my mask in place
So here we stay together, as we endure quarantine,
Isolation, under Covid-19
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/14 "2020-04-10T12:01:31Z")
[Housefyre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZQRt4BXr8) by Briggs and Tim Minchin. Also covers a little bit of the Australian PM’s response to the bushfires we had in December and January, which is all part of how he’s viewed now while we’re under isolation, so it’s very specific and politically charged.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-inspired-songs/850559/15 "2020-04-10T17:03:34Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
>
> It would be nice if people gave the title with the link.
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> Here is coronavirus Rhapsody
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> [https://youtu.be/8KPbJ0-DxTc](https://youtu.be/8KPbJ0-DxTc)
I like this [Vancouver choral version](https://youtu.be/4ymMuCtowLk) a lot better.