Parody (using the music of others)
All works on this page © 1998 David I. Brager

Performance may require the use of caricature voices

The Wizard of Oz
Sung to "Two Princes" by The Counting Crows

A whirlwind brought you, Dorothy, here to Munchikinland
Your house dropped and killed a wicked witch now.  Strike up the band
Now just then Munchikins came to meet you, as Toto'd play
The Wicked Witch of the West came to visit you. Then went away.

So you went, and walked the yellow road now, and that's a blast
You came up on a lonely scarecrow, but walked on past
He hollared out, "Don't you know that you're going the wrong way
But I don't know, I haven't any brains here to really say

The wicked Witch, she frightens me,
She likes to play with fire, makes me want to flee
I have no place to store a memory
But I know what I need to really be so free
And fire will eliminate the last of me."

So you walked along the road with Scarecrow, and found a tin man
You oiled him, and brought him on along, with his oil can
And then you, found cowardly lion, as there you'd stay
He tried hard, but never could he really scare you away

(Instrumental part...probably with adlib of voices)

The Emerald City was a long walk, through hill and dale
The poppies made you really sick, you looked so pale
But you woke up, and made it to the doorman, at the gates, you heard
He took you all and scrubbed and cleaned you up so you could see the Wizard

Wizard said,"Go kill the witch.
If you want a chance to make a lifetime switch
I don't mind delivering everything you wish
But I'm not into doing things without a catch
So I won't help until you meet your match.

So you went to find the wicked witch, and took your friends
The monkeys came and swooped you far away, to meet your end
But then the Scarecrow found a way to save you, and that's okay
Fighting fire with a bucket of water, melted the witch away

You went back to see the Wizard, and found a bum
It turned out the wizard lived in Kansas, in an old slum
But a balloon mishap made him fly away and land in OZ
Hee's a humbug, but offers to help you and win your cause

The balloon, is filled for you to fly back and far away
A pussycat tempts Toto, who runs off, which makes you stay
But then the Good Witch of the North, she comes to call
And offers to send you back, with Toto, for one and all.

"So did you learn the lesson, Dorothy, or will you stay"
"No, Glinda, I want the things around me to be okay
I know now, that everything I have is in my yard
And anything my heart shall e're desire won't be that hard"

And so you just clicked them ruby slippers three times you'd roam
Repeating,over,  over and over, "no place like home"
(fade out)
"There's no place like home, There's no place like home"
"There's no place like home, There's no place like home"
 

(with respect to Frank Baum and his copyrights for characters and plots herein)


Thank God I'm A Tweety Bird®
(Sung to the tune of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy")

Well life in the house just can't be beat
Cause I belong to Granny, who's always sweet
All I gotta do is swing and tweet
Thank God I'm a Tweety Bird®

Well Sylvester is a cat that belongs to Granny
And he always tried to eat me so I always gotta scrammy
But when Granny finds out, she hits him in the fanny,
Thank God I'm a Tweety Bird®

Well, I got me a water dish that doubles as Jacuzzi
While my bird seed makes a soft spot to take me a snoozy
And I know how to get out when I need to tease some pussy
Thank God I'm a Tweety Bird®
 


Godzilla's World
(Sung to Matchbox 20's "Real World")

I wonder what it's like to be true chameleon
I wonder what it'd feel like to just blend in
Well I'd find me a mountain, and just become another piece of wall
And no one'd have to look at me at all...not at all.

I wonder what it's like to be human being
I wonder what it's feel like to be so freeing
I'd look just like the others and they'd never take notice of me today
I could walk downtown and no one'd scream away...they'd just say

Stand up, and I'm sixty five stories tall
But with these little tanks, they make me just trip and fall,
I never meant to do no harm, I just came here for a snack
But in Godzilla's world they keep trying to attack...me...me...just let me be.

I wonder what it's like to be deadly virus
I wonder what it'd feel like to be that small
I'd attack all these humans and multiply each time they'd reproduce
Give them the medicine of abuse...they'd lose...and in the end I win

Stand up, and I'm sixty five stories tall
But with these little tanks, they make me just trip and fall,
I never meant to do no harm, I just came here for a snack
But in Godzilla's world they keep trying to attack

I want peace
You want peace
Why can't we meet and make it all work out?
Lets make peace, so I can sleep...and you...can get some too.

Stand up, and I'm sixty five stories tall
But with these little tanks, they make me just trip and fall,
I never meant to do no harm, I just came here to be free
But in Godzilla's world they keep trying to attacking me

Now it's Godzilla's world, we need to just be free
Now it's Godzilla's world, we need to just be free...for you...and me



Short-shorts...small songs that work as punch lines...


You know, they've been telling us for at least forty years that an electric car is coming out, maybe next year.  How many "next years" do we have to wait?  Then again, why would you want one?  Let's see...I can have a car with an AM radio in it, and drive 600 miles without a recharge.  But I want my High Performance sound deck with super thunder tube sub-woofer, 500 watts per channel, with eight speakers, and the dozen CD jukebox in the trunk.

(Sung to the tune of "Surfin' USA")

If every car was all electric
 Ecologists just wouldn't care
For we wouldn't be pollutin'
 The California Air
But there's another problem
 We overlooked this year
When we turn on our music
Our car just stops right HERE.

(End song VERY ABRUPTLY)



Kids and guns may be scary, but I'm more concerned about kids and high explosives.  You ever notice that the news reporters go out of their way to tell you what an bomb has in it?  This is so you can make one and then make more news. And you know, kids will do anything to see something go BOOM.

(Sung to "Riders on the storm")
Bombers on the side
Bombers on the side
Into the house they glide
And take you for a ride
"We're going out to play"
Is all they ever say
Bombers on the side
 


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