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Song Parodies -> "Cantharides"
Original Song Title:
"Candyman"
Original Performer:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Parody Song Title:
"Cantharides"
Parody Written by:
John A. Barry
The Lyrics
Cantharides (kan-THAR-i-deez), a European blister beetle, effects the growth of hardwood.
What can make your shrub rise
And sprinkle its dew?
Covering your hardwood lot with arboreal glue?
Cantharides can, cantharides can,
Cantharides can, 'cause you mix it for lumber
And then it burls your wood
What can make the veins grow,
Wrapped against your thigh?
Soak it in a trunk that tastes like maple-syrup pie.
Cantharides can, cantharides can,
Cantharides can, 'cause you mix it for lumber
And then it burls your wood
Cantharides makes
Sempervirens shake.
Sapifying and coniferous.
Take a bite—although it's blisterish
It heats you, makes you more misterish.
What can make a fir grow
And the maple stream?
Sap flows when you burrow—then eject the redwood cream?
Cantharides can, cantharides can
Cantharides can, 'cause you mix it for lumber
And then it burls your wood.
And sprinkle its dew?
Covering your hardwood lot with arboreal glue?
Cantharides can, cantharides can,
Cantharides can, 'cause you mix it for lumber
And then it burls your wood
What can make the veins grow,
Wrapped against your thigh?
Soak it in a trunk that tastes like maple-syrup pie.
Cantharides can, cantharides can,
Cantharides can, 'cause you mix it for lumber
And then it burls your wood
Cantharides makes
Sempervirens shake.
Sapifying and coniferous.
Take a bite—although it's blisterish
It heats you, makes you more misterish.
What can make a fir grow
And the maple stream?
Sap flows when you burrow—then eject the redwood cream?
Cantharides can, cantharides can
Cantharides can, 'cause you mix it for lumber
And then it burls your wood.
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You were just itchin' to write this, weren't you?
the old spanish fly, but from what i've read about it really burns like hell... 555
well, all that's easy for you to say.....
Thanks, JD, Joe, Royce.
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