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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Challenge: This challenge was really a proxy challenge/thread bleed from the Thought for the Day - Feb. 8 thread. You'll have to read it to understand what I'm talking about. Basically, it involves the film, The Wizard of Oz . . . It was a 3-part challenge to write (or finish) the following songs: (1) Munchkins Hangin' In Dem Trees (a/k/a Strange little Fruit); or (2) The Storkin' Blues; or (3) Elementary Feminism (a/k/a Glenda The Good Witch Gets Guilded)
The Storking Blues by Mbo
Man, I gots the Storking blues
Deliv'rin' eggs all day
Man, I gots the Storking blues
Deliv'rin eggs all day
Man I hate this bidness
Munchkins don't never give me no pay
I deliver these eggs all day
Red, orange, blue and green
I deliver these eggs all day
Red, orange, blue and green
But if you shows up late, my boys
Those little Munchkins can git mean
Them Lollipop Guild boys
Can't get it throught my mind
Them Lollipop Guild boys
Can't get it through my mind
How the lives in the sewer
But their hair stays mighty fine
That ole wicked witch
She put a hex on me
That ole wicked witch
She put a hex on me
And I keep gettin' hit wit apples
From a nasty twisted tree
They treat me so bad
They don't give me a thing
They treat me so bad
They don't give me a thing
I's feeling so bad
I'm gonna climb a tree and swing
Matthew Richards (2000)