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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge:
From an interesting newstory: A rather special headline in today's paper caught my eye.
It was situated over a story describing how, in these days of the 'Net, you no longer
have to pull on your Justins, hitch up your Levis, place your Stetson on your head, or smell the
sawdust and funk from the stockyard, to go to the cattle auction. That's right
folks, you can bid on that bessie over the ethernet. The story described a
"3-1/2 hour Web event, offering about 3,500 beef cattle to 36 competing
bidders in seven states . . . confirm(ing) the next evolutionary cycle of
livestock marketing." So, here's the headline for which you are
challenged to write a song for: ONLINE BOVINE
Yippee-Yi-Yo-Ebay by SharonA
(Tune: "I'm an Old Cowhand" by Johnny Mercer)
I'm a cattleman up in Maryland
But I never rode bulls or learned to brand.
I'm a stockman who never stocked a cow,
Never bought a steer, but I plan to now
'Cause the online auction has shown me how!
Yippee-yi-yo-eBay!
Yippee-yi-yo-eBay!
I'm a cattleman up in Maryland,
Surf the web world wide with my mouse in hand.
I'm no John Wayne cowboy � I'm up-to-date,
Catalogued each cow in the Lone Star State
On a spreadsheet in Windows 98!
Yippee-yi-yo-eBay!
Yippee-yi-yo-eBay!
My PC's upgraded; it ain't so slow
So I sent my bids, didn't bid too low.
Now a thousand head to my yard will go!
Yippee-yi-yo-eBay!
Yippee-yi-yo-eBay!