Song Parodies

[JCT777]

I wasn't sure whether to put this in the Off-Topic forum or the Fun & Games forum, but I wanted to create a topic to let everyone see a few song parodies that I wrote. I don't know if anyone else on this board has ever written any, but feel free to share if you have!

The first one was written to the tune of the Billy Joel song "Just The Way You Are". A friend of mine who was in a band back in the early 1990's actually came up with the first few lines, and then I took it from there. Later today, I will post another song parody that I wrote. Let me know what you think.

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE - Anti-Suicidal Version
[TO: “JUST THE WAY YOU ARE” / BILLY JOEL]

Don't go blowing off your head now
Don't stare so deeply at that knife
Don't be taking no poison pills now
Don't be gambling with your life
Don't go leaping from tall buildings
And don't jump in front of a car
Don't you lie down on the train tracks
We love you just the way you are.

Don't you light yourself on fire
Don't hang yourself from a tree
Don't stick your finger in a socket
Or get stung by a killer bee
Don't put your head in a guillotine now
Don't beat your head with a steel bar
Don't take a boat ride on the Titanic
We love you just the way you are.

We know that you’ve been feeling down so low
That you just want to disappear
But suicide is not the way to go
These are words that you must hear.

So don't go wading into quicksand
Or dive into a pool of tar
Don't take a bath in sulfuric acid
We love you just the way you are.

Don't start drinking Liquid Drain-o
Don't you light a trick cigar
We don't want you to kill yourself now
We love you just the way you are…

[rainstorm]

cool!!

[bfez1]

Funny stuff there---

[TexasStooge]

LOL

[Colin]

[wx247]

Look at all these one word posts...tsk,tsk! J/k! That is pretty funny JCT. Very clever may I add.

[HurricaneGirl]

That is funny John

George and I have written a couple too. I'll have to post them when I have some free time to myself at home.

We have "Flat Cat Strut" which goes to that Stray Cats tune and "Food Separator" which goes to Smooth Operator by Sade.

[JCT777]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

HurricaneGirl - those sound very funny. I would like to see those sometime!

Here is another one that I wrote a few years back, to the tune of the song "Hands" by Jewel.

STRANDS
[TO: “HANDS” / JEWEL]
by JCT 1999

If I could tell all men just one thing
It would be don’t wait around
You’d better hurry, and worry when your hair
Is falling all over the ground

My efforts are useless
For me it’s just far too late
I’ve tried transplants; I’ve tried Rogaine
But now baldness is my fate

These strands are all I’ve got
And there’s not much but a small spot
Of my hair – there’s not a lot
And it will never grow back

Follicly, I’m very impaired
It’s been that way for years now
I never thought it would get this far
I always thought that I could stop it somehow

But each day more went away
No matter how hard I begged it to stay
So if you’re a man who’s losing hair
Please do not delay

These strands are all that’s left
And there’s not many on my head
Soon they’ll fall out like the rest
And they will never grow back

It’s the end of days for buying shampoo
It’s the end of using all that hair goo

I will take my home hair kit and throw it out
I will take my blow dryer and throw it out
I will take my pocket comb and throw it out

These strands of hair you see
You know they are temporary
They’ll be gone by January
And they will never grow back

These strands are thin and few
And I think I know what to do
I will stick some hair on with glue
‘Cause it will never grow back
It will never grow back

There are so few strands
There are so few strands…