We had this one except the gun was edited out and that line was “We hit her in the butt with a rotten coconut”. And at the end there was a line that was sung but not the same tune that said “I wonder whyyy”
We also had the “Burning of the School” one above but I remember some kids said “broken all the rules” and some said “broken all the rulers” and the lines after were different also but I don’t remember the details.
I found the lyrics to, “Rudolph, The Disco Reindeer,” from National Lampoon, but I can’t figure out how to post it so you all don’t have to scroll through 38 pages looking for it. If you’re adventurous, here’s the URL (page 38, lower right-hand corner):
http://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/1970’s/1979/1979_12.pdf
I recall several versions of “Frosty the Dopeman” that differed from the one played on Dr. Demento. I’ve always wondered which came first. Was the recorded version (by Marc Zydiak) an adaptation of a schoolyard parody or were the schoolyard parodies adaptations of the recording?
Some old ones, before my time (no, really!)
Order in the court!
The judge is eatin’ beans
Hitler’s in the bathtub, sinkin’ submarines!
Whistle while you work
Stevenson’s a jerk
Eisenhower, fanny power
Whistle while you work
We sang the Seven Dwarfs song from Snow White when I was in school.
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to school we go
With razor blades and hand grenades, hi ho, hi ho
Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, I bit the teacher’s toe
She bit me back, the dirty rat, hi ho, hi ho
Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, it’s home from school we go
We used our blades and hand grenades, hi ho, hi ho
The Catholic school version had bad things happening to the nuns. Use your imagination.
I remember the last line as
“And she ain’t gonna hit me no more.”
…Bopped her in the bean
With a rotten tangerine,
And boy did she turn green
Does anyone remember anything similar to this, sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”:
Marijuana, marijuana
LSD, LSD
Heroin and cocaine, heroin and cocaine
Fun for me, fun for me.
The reason I ask is because I have an unreliable memory that I invented that particular set of lyrics one summer at Girl Scout camp.
On the one hand, this seems extremely unlikely. On the other, that’s EXACTLY the sort of obnoxious thing I would have come up with as a callow youth. (For the record, I was a complete innocent who never once consumed any psychoactive drugs. That didn’t stop me from affecting a world-weary, all-too-knowing persona.)
Marijuana, marijuana
LSD, LSD
College kids are making it
Teenagers are taking it
Why can’t we? Why can’t we?
I was in 2nd grade in the 60’s when I heard this parody to the Addams Family theme:
The Addams Family started
When Uncle Fester farted
The all came out retarded
We watch them on TV!
Yes! You’ve jogged my memory. Now I recall the “why can’t we, why can’t we” line, but I don’t have even a false memory of inventing it. Good, I wasn’t quite as sociopathic as I thought I might have been.
Yes you were.
All kids are nutz in one way or another. And those of us that grew up in the 60’s and 70’s were even nuttier than any other generation.
Milk, milk, lemonade
'Round the corner fudge is made!
Lizzie Borden took an ax,
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
Here lies Les Moore
Shot in the head with a forty-four
No Less
No More.
When I was in elementary school, it was
Marijuana, marijuana
LSD, LSD
Scientists make it, teachers take it
Why can’t we? Why can’t we?
What about this version of the Notre Dame fight song?
We never stagger, we never fall
We sober up on grain alcohol
Send somebody out for gin
And don’t let the sober sophomores in
Adult content ahead:
Come and listen to my story about a perv named Jed
Took Elly May and threw her on the bed
Pulled down his zipper, out popped a worm
In her fat ass with the bubbling sperm
Jizz that is. Pearl cream. Testes tea.
Sorta, but they’re more like grace notes. You wind up saying the name like “c’mish’ner,” with the “mish” aligning with the “Jo” of “Joker”, and the " 'ner" aligning with the “er.”
I suspect that the Joker/away version came first. The above is one of the reasons: it’s a bit harder to fit in. The other reason is that it finds a rhyme to “egg.” And, in general, you find that the ones that “fix” the issues came second.
Plus it wouldn’t surprise me if the original was by people who pronounce “egg” as “ayg,” which makes it more nearly rhyme with “away,” especially if you say the g softly.
In my neck of the woods, Erie PA in the early 70’s it was somewhat different:
Jingle Bells, Santa Smells
Easter’s on it’s way
The Batmobile lost it’s wheel
and The Joker got away
The version I heard was already out of date when I was in middle school:
Marijuana, Marijuana
LSD, LSD
President Nixon makes it
LBJ takes it
Why can’t we?
Wow, am I the only one that had Alfred breaking his leg? Minnesota in the 1970s.
Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The batmobile lost its wheel
And Alfred broke his leg.