# Favorite Funny Cover Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401 "2004-10-09T21:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401/21 "2004-10-10T18:54:01Z")
I like Rolf Harris’s version of “Stairway to Heaven”. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401/22 "2004-10-10T19:02:32Z")
I think maybe “parody” would be a better word than “cover” in some cases. Fans of Broadway musicals should get a CD or two from Forbidden Broadway. A sampling of songs I’ve heard from it: Into the Words (Into the Woods) > [@"Into the Words" (Into the Woods)](#): > > The thoughts are clear, > If understood. > I have no peer, > 'Cause I’m so good. > The score is the star. > The stars are just wood. > I sort of hate to ask it, > But what’s a rhyme for “basket”? > > Into the words, that trip your lip, > And fry your brain, and sprain your tongue. > Into the words, that cave’s so dark, > You better bring a torch in. > [@"Can you Feel the Pain Tonight?" (The Lion King)](#): > > I hate Julie Taymor. > She doesn’t have a clue. > My neck is breaking wearing her designs > And sublixated too. > Her puppetry is stunning, > But now I must confide, > Although it looks great from the audience, > It’s torture here inside. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401/23 "2004-10-10T19:04:17Z")
I was putting together a cd for my dad of all the versions of “Ghost Riders in the Sky” I could find. (Yes, it was his favorite song.) One of the versions was called “Ghost Chickens” and it made me laugh like a fool. Dunno who did it, though. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401/24 "2004-10-10T19:23:20Z")
The Cardigans’ versions of “Iron Man” and “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.” ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401/25 "2004-10-10T19:31:28Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I like Rolf Harris’s version of “Stairway to Heaven”. His version of “I Touch Myself” had me on the floor choking. I laughed so hard I slid out of my chair and couldn’t breathe! ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401/26 "2004-10-10T19:55:08Z")
> [@BlackNGold](#): > > Hawkwind’s cover of the eponymous song “Motorhead”. Somehow funny and good at the same time… Er…that’s the original version. Lemmy was still in Hawkwind at the time. Goldfinger does a hilarious cover of “Rio” on the Duran Duran tribute album. Halfway through it suddenly changes to a parody of “Rainbow in the Dark”: _“His name is DIO, Ronnie James DIO…”_ In the “unintentionally funny” category, I’d nominate Celtic Frost’s “Mexican Radio”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-cover-songs/268401.md?page=1)