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Song Parodies -> "Staid Old Guys!"
Original Song Title:
"Edelweiss"
Original Performer:
Sound of Music
Parody Song Title:
"Staid Old Guys!"
Parody Written by:
TJC
The Lyrics
Staid old guys
Staid old guys
Blue-blood upper crust scions
Though well read
Still they'll wed
Kissing cousins they've "tried on"
"Fondness" in fam-i-lies--fool's sex-ess
Gene re-cessives, their doom
Inbred lot!
Blood won't clot!
He-mo-philia's* heir-looms!
~
*Hemophiliacism--pronounced: HE-moans-FEEL-ya'-COUSIN'
Staid old guys
Blue-blood upper crust scions
Though well read
Still they'll wed
Kissing cousins they've "tried on"
"Fondness" in fam-i-lies--fool's sex-ess
Gene re-cessives, their doom
Inbred lot!
Blood won't clot!
He-mo-philia's* heir-looms!
~
*Hemophiliacism--pronounced: HE-moans-FEEL-ya'-COUSIN'
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All in the family--loved it! Again, great rhymes.
yay...i learned a word today
Are you trying to out do John Barry with this song? Well, good luck on your next couple hundred, and this is a good start! 5's
HA! Funny as hell! 555
"Blood won't clot" - hee hee.
Excellent intellectually condensed humor
LOL!
John, alvin, Matthias, Rick, Meriadoc, AFW and PMS! Thanks for the humorous comments-- hope you aren't too sick of these ditties... as they're short, at least there's no need to waste good money on an Evelyn Woods course!
The footnote is especially funny! I'm only gonna read another 2 or 3 hundred of these...just warnin' ya :-)
Is that about the Royal family - or Charles Emerson Winchester III? Clever - 5's.
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