# More parody songs like my gramma used to sing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740 "2005-07-01T18:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/21 "2005-07-03T15:26:42Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > Mad Magazine spoiled a couple of songs for me. I can’t ever hear “You’re a Grand Old Flag” without singing to myself: > > _You’re a fat old hag, > You’re an unsightly bag, > But you’re still my true love, EmmyLou…_ > > And Moon River to me sounds like: > > _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…_ > > I could go on, but I won’t. 😃 No please do, very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/22 "2005-07-03T16:07:00Z")
Mad magazine burnt some into my brain, too. Like “hello, Deli” (to the tune of Hello, Dolly) Hello deli This is Joe, deli Would you please send up some nice corned beef on rye. A box of ritz, deli And some Schlitz, deli Some chopped liver and a sliver of your apple pie. Turkey legs, deli Hardboiled eggs, deli with tomatoes and potatos you french fry Oh please don’t be late deli Cuz I can’t wait deli Deli, without breakfast I will die! (all done from memory, sadly). ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/23 "2005-07-03T16:58:15Z")
Something I came up with when I was bored (to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) I know it’s a phallic object, 'cause it’s longer than it’s wide In your hotdogs and your obelisks male dominance does hide If you disagree with me it’s 'cause you’ve bottled it up inside And that’s what Freud said. Glory, glory psychoanalysis! Glory, glory psychoanalysis! Glory, glory psychoanalysis! And that’s what Freud said. Everything you do has sex in mind no matter what you say If you disagree with me the orthodoxy’ll make you pay I have no facts to back me up, but I’ve jumped in the fray And that’s what freud said. (chorus) I love to use the subconscious because nobody can see That I make stuff up as I go along - my services aren’t free And doomed is the iconoclast who dares to challenge me And that’s what Freud said. (chorus) Eh…it killed enough time, anyway. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/24 "2005-07-03T19:04:18Z")
athelas, that’s a lot like this song [http://freespace.virgin.net/robert\_ian.smith/Songindex/Psychotherapy.htm](http://freespace.virgin.net/robert_ian.smith/Songindex/Psychotherapy.htm) > [@](#): > > Freud’s mystic world of meaning needn’t have us mystified > It’s really very simple what the psyche tries to hide > A thing’s a phallic symbol if it’s longer than it’s wide > As the Id goes marching on > > Glory glory psychotherapy > Glory glory sexuality > Glory glory now we can be free > As the Id goes marching on More _Mad_ stuff: > [@](#): > > Bid a heart, bid a spade, > Bid a bid that can’t be made, > As the bridge team goes ruffing along… > > For it’s Hi, Hi, Hee, > We’ve got vulnerability. > Shout out, “Three no trump” loud and strong! > DOWN FOUR! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/25 "2005-07-03T19:11:53Z")
No one has mentioned the fabulous Allan Sherman yet. There was of course [Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah](http://sherman-allan-lyrics.wonderlyrics.com/Hello-Muddah-Hello-Fadduh.html) (to the tune of Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours”), but there were many others equally as able to permanently alter your brain cells. A couple of my favorites:[list=0] [li][You Went the Wrong Way Old King Louis](http://sherman-allan-lyrics.wonderlyrics.com/You-Went-The-Wrong-Way-Old-King-Louie.html) (to the tune of "It’s a Long Way to St.Louis). The introduction, to the tune of the “Marseilles”, goes:[/li]_Louis the Sixteenth was the King of France in 1789. He was worse than Louis the Fifteenth. He was worse than Louis the Fourteenth. He was worse than Louis the Thirteenth. He was the worst . . . Since Louis the First._ [li][Hungarian Goulash No.5](http://sherman-allan-lyrics.wonderlyrics.com/Hungarian-Goulash-No-5.html) (to the tune of “Hungarian Rhapsody”) which starts:[/li]_If you like Hungarian food, They have a goulash which is very good._ and contains the unforgettable lyrics: _Borscht is what they’re eating in the Soviet. Wait, I think we’ve got some on the stove yet._[/list] ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/26 "2005-07-03T20:35:29Z")
Every time I’m at a sporting event, and that national anthem (shlould that be capitalized?) plays, I can’t help but sing the version from _The Naked Gun_: Oh, say can you see By the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming Who’s bright stripes and broad stars In the perilous night, O’er the rampart’s we watched As the da da, da, da, da, da And the rocket’s red glare Lots of bombs in the air Gave proof to the night That we still had a flag Oh say does that spangle banner wave Over all-l-l-l-l that’s free Over the home Of the land And the land of the free! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/27 "2005-07-03T21:44:43Z")
**Hey !!! It’s Enrico Palazzo !!!"** ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/28 "2005-07-04T01:33:27Z")
Cheer, cheer for ol’ Notre Dame You take the Notre, I’ll take the Dame, Send some freshmen out for gin Don’t let a sober sophomore in. We never stagger We never fall We sober up with wood alcohol While our loyal faculty lies drunk on the barroom floor. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/29 "2005-07-04T03:55:15Z")
Yes, Mad Magazine wrote some great song parodies. One of my favorites was “News” set to the tune of “Love Is Blue” News, news it’s time for news Cronkite is here, so what can we lose? News, news world leaders’ views, Premiere Brezhnev’s and Georges Pompidou’s * * * Alan Sherman (as someone previously mentioned) was great at parodies. One of his best was: “Won’t You Come Home Disraeli ?” (Sung to the tune of “Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey?”) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/30 "2005-07-04T04:01:36Z")
Fight on for old 'S.C., The halfback wants his salary. The ends refuse to play, Until they get their weekly pay, From old 'S.C. Pay up for old 'S.C.! Pay up! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/31 "2005-07-04T04:06:29Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Yes, Mad Magazine wrote some great song parodies. One of my favorites was “News” set to the tune of “Love Is Blue” > > News, news it’s time for news > Cronkite is here, so what can we lose? > News, news world leaders’ views, > Premiere Brezhnev’s and Georges Pompidou’s > > * * * > > Alan Sherman (as someone previously mentioned) was great at parodies. > One of his best was: > “Won’t You Come Home Disraeli ?” (Sung to the tune of “Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey?”) I came across that issue of MAD recently at the comics shop. The same article had such gems as: _You may prefer a Character Like Mickey Mouse or Dumbo But this guy’s real A true Sclhemiel And they call this clod Columbo_ and _Kung Fu For highbrows it’s groovy Like some new-wave movie But much more mystic instead Kung Fu For lowbrows there’s killin’ They’re watchin’ the villain Get several kicks in the head_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/32 "2005-07-04T13:45:48Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > Mad Magazine spoiled a couple of songs for me. I can’t ever hear “You’re a Grand Old Flag” without singing to myself: > > _You’re a fat old hag, > You’re an unsightly bag, > But you’re still my true love, EmmyLou…_ The one I know starts off with “She’s a mean old bag!/She’s a nasty old bag!” but the version I found in Totally MAD has different artwork with it, not the one that I remember. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/33 "2005-07-04T13:52:02Z")
Sung to the tune of “God Bless America” Please bless my underwear My only pair Stand beside them, and guide them, through the washer and the dryer back to me. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740/34 "2005-07-04T20:56:13Z")
Another to On Top Of Old Smokey: _On top of old Smoky;_ _All covered in blood_ _I stomped my poor teacher’s_ _Face in the mud._ And from Mad, sung to Clemintine: \*In the cabinet; in the bathroom; O’er the sinks whos faucets shine. Stand a funny litte bottle And they call it iodine. Oh you funny; Oh you funny; Oh you funny iodine. You don’t taste good with a cookie But for booboos your just fine\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-parody-songs-like-my-gramma-used-to-sing/310740.md?page=1)