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Song Parodies -> "MacEden Park"
Original Song Title:
"MacArthur Park"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Richard Harris
Parody Song Title:
"MacEden Park"
Parody Written by:
Merry & Pippin
The Lyrics
Kings were never feted like us girl
No need to shop for bread
In our hallowed ignorance
E-den's the party place until we messed
With Eve's forbidden sighin'
After ripened fruity plants
Well mankind's perks are melting and it irks
My help-meet's devising brought me down!
Someone let the snake get all the blame
I am duped 'cus He forbade it
But that chick Eve made me ate it
Else I never would participate in sin
Oh, no!
Realized my 'fellows' are undressed
Hoping face to save
With a mound of round fig leaves
My curse - a gender ribbing by the Man
Now there's no displaying peckers in the breeze
Now Adam's perks are fleeting and it irks
I'll soon be despising hoeing ground
Someone make that snake take all the blame...
I don't understand the ban - it..
...It was just a pomegranate
Now must weather reciprocity of sin
This blows!
Stuffed it up and got it wrong, you see
Broke rule and winged it
Glared did God, said "No ice cream for thee"
'Cus I got fingered!
I will whinge and whine and bitch and scorn
For in this garden patch He looked at what I'd done
No laughter more 'cus Eve caused my strife
Dastardly that Eve as my wife
Lill'd be better one...
I'll till eight to five now with my hands and I will rue it
I will prob'ly worship Lord of Flies 'cus now we blew it
I'll be clad in stinky fur attire
Fall guy's fashion show I'm livin' by the bye
And after all it weren't very bright
Oh, must admit I am now contrite
I'm re-thinking and blue
A blundering guy...
(up tempo music with dancing apples and pomegranates)
MacEden Park, I felt was quite a lark
But now something dicey's going down
Come on, let the snake take all the blame...
I will shirk from all that's sacred
And will mourn I'm not still naked
But it's clever You'll be blessing Eve with Cain!
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No need to shop for bread
In our hallowed ignorance
E-den's the party place until we messed
With Eve's forbidden sighin'
After ripened fruity plants
Well mankind's perks are melting and it irks
My help-meet's devising brought me down!
Someone let the snake get all the blame
I am duped 'cus He forbade it
But that chick Eve made me ate it
Else I never would participate in sin
Oh, no!
Realized my 'fellows' are undressed
Hoping face to save
With a mound of round fig leaves
My curse - a gender ribbing by the Man
Now there's no displaying peckers in the breeze
Now Adam's perks are fleeting and it irks
I'll soon be despising hoeing ground
Someone make that snake take all the blame...
I don't understand the ban - it..
...It was just a pomegranate
Now must weather reciprocity of sin
This blows!
Stuffed it up and got it wrong, you see
Broke rule and winged it
Glared did God, said "No ice cream for thee"
'Cus I got fingered!
I will whinge and whine and bitch and scorn
For in this garden patch He looked at what I'd done
No laughter more 'cus Eve caused my strife
Dastardly that Eve as my wife
Lill'd be better one...
I'll till eight to five now with my hands and I will rue it
I will prob'ly worship Lord of Flies 'cus now we blew it
I'll be clad in stinky fur attire
Fall guy's fashion show I'm livin' by the bye
And after all it weren't very bright
Oh, must admit I am now contrite
I'm re-thinking and blue
A blundering guy...
(up tempo music with dancing apples and pomegranates)
MacEden Park, I felt was quite a lark
But now something dicey's going down
Come on, let the snake take all the blame...
I will shirk from all that's sacred
And will mourn I'm not still naked
But it's clever You'll be blessing Eve with Cain!
Oh, no!
Oh, no
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555, well done, Hobbits, well done!
Sent forth from Eden, doomed to die,
Stained by sin so serpentyne;
Dissolved at last was that sin by
The Carpenter's red turpentyne.
Sent forth from Eden, doomed to die,
Stained by sin so serpentyne;
Dissolved at last was that sin by
The Carpenter's red turpentyne.
a masterpiece
The first Biblical themed song written by Hobbits. Good Job, I mean job. (Have a nice vacation, Merry.)
That makes more sense than the original.
It makes more sense than the original sin.
Classic!
best line...someone let the snake get all the blame....boy, do i ever hate the original song...this is sooooooo much better
Thank you so much everyone! I am sorry I did not get to vote on anyone else's today - I meant to, but I am leaving for a road trip Friday morning and am burning the candle at both ends trying to get everything finished in time, and my to do list is getting longer and time is getting shorter. :-P
Yep, thanks all. Merry? Road trip? Which team you play for?
This is quite simply, superb !!!
Excellent job, guys! :-)
I agree with Alvin
SOTM - Voted and commented earlier. Very well done.
Another where I voted but missed the comment - another excellent addition to the ever-growing M&P archives :-)
SOTM Very good!! 5's
This is how they should have written the Bible.
SOTM--Good job, little ones!
Excellent stuff, hobbitses. I particularly love the snake and pomegranate lines.
(SOTM)Poetic. Much poetic license: " I am duped 'cus He forbade it But that chick Eve made me ate it" Holy Moses!
(SOTM) Mmm...sacrelicious! Loved the rhymes and enjoyable all the way through.
(SOTM): Sneaky and clever reference to Lilith, with the word one as in first in the same line, you hobbits know your canon AND your myths, as always...
SOTM -- an improvement on both originals (song and story.) Well done!
What everyone else said (esp Rick). Particularly enjoyed the various subs for "recipe".
(SOTM) - Mer & Pip - You know, I get this gnawing feeling here that this story is somehow vaguely familiar to me...but I just can't place it...well, darn it, maybe I'll be able to place it later...time to curl up now with a Good Book and get ready to crash...OH...5's...
wonderful stuff ... and I love the OS......
Good word play, clever rhyming, and good ending.
Wow! Thanks so much all of you for all the great comments! And K1CHYD, glad you caught the Lilith reference! ;-)
(SOTM) See above!
It's like I'm back in Rome, staring up at the Sistine Ceiling where Mike portrays Adam and Eve, he probably wouldn't have minded 'peckers in the breeze', as his Last Judgement would suggest... [start flashback]
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When Michelangelo unvealed his Last Judgement on the Sistine Wall, one of the clergymen was very unsettled by all the ignudi (or nudes) in it and called Mike some not-so-nice names. At some point later, Mike painted this man into the area of 'Hell' in his 'Last Judgement'. When this clergyman noticed it, he went berzerk and asked the Pope to do something about it. The Pope responded something like this:
"I'd love to help you, but you're already in hell. If he'd painted you in purgatory, then maybe."
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Anyhow, great parody you hobbitses
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When Michelangelo unvealed his Last Judgement on the Sistine Wall, one of the clergymen was very unsettled by all the ignudi (or nudes) in it and called Mike some not-so-nice names. At some point later, Mike painted this man into the area of 'Hell' in his 'Last Judgement'. When this clergyman noticed it, he went berzerk and asked the Pope to do something about it. The Pope responded something like this:
"I'd love to help you, but you're already in hell. If he'd painted you in purgatory, then maybe."
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Anyhow, great parody you hobbitses
As a rule I don't like seeing people mess with MY park, but I'll forgive it this time because this was so brilliant. If this parody was a cake I would NOT be leaving it out in the rain - 555 guys - the pomegranate line and "someone made that snake take all the blame" were my favourites
favorite: "now Adam's perks are fleeting"
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