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Song Parodies -> "Age of Asparagus/Vegetarians"
Original Song Title:
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
Original Performer:
The Fifth Dimension
Parody Song Title:
"Age of Asparagus/Vegetarians"
Parody Written by:
Michael McVey
The Lyrics
When Archie was in his seventh year
And Viking took pics of Mars
When "Convoy" was heard across the planet
And Elvis was still a star
This was the dawning of the Age of Asparagus
Age of Asparagus
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Charlie's Angels and Colombo
Barney Miller's mumbo jumbo
Beethoven's Fifth by Walter Murphy,
Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley
Bicentennial celebration
And Stallone's vituperation
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
When Archie was in his seventh year
And Viking took pics of Mars
When "Convoy" was heard across the planet
And Manilow was still a star
This was the dawning of the age of Asparagus
Age of Asparagus
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Ve-getarians (Oh, let 'em whine, c'mon)
Ve-getarians (Now everybody just ignore 'em)
Vege-tar-ians (Let the ground beef in)
Ve-getarians (Open up your mouth and let the ground beef in)
Ve-getarians (When you are hungry, let the beef in)
Vege-tar-ians (Got to open up your mouth and let the ground beef in)
Ve-getarians (Animals may have been mistreated)
Ve-getarians (But we need protein anyway)
Vege-tar-ians (Just open your mouth, and let the ground beef in)
And Viking took pics of Mars
When "Convoy" was heard across the planet
And Elvis was still a star
This was the dawning of the Age of Asparagus
Age of Asparagus
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Charlie's Angels and Colombo
Barney Miller's mumbo jumbo
Beethoven's Fifth by Walter Murphy,
Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley
Bicentennial celebration
And Stallone's vituperation
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
When Archie was in his seventh year
And Viking took pics of Mars
When "Convoy" was heard across the planet
And Manilow was still a star
This was the dawning of the age of Asparagus
Age of Asparagus
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Asparagus!
Ve-getarians (Oh, let 'em whine, c'mon)
Ve-getarians (Now everybody just ignore 'em)
Vege-tar-ians (Let the ground beef in)
Ve-getarians (Open up your mouth and let the ground beef in)
Ve-getarians (When you are hungry, let the beef in)
Vege-tar-ians (Got to open up your mouth and let the ground beef in)
Ve-getarians (Animals may have been mistreated)
Ve-getarians (But we need protein anyway)
Vege-tar-ians (Just open your mouth, and let the ground beef in)
©2006 Michael W. McVey
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HAHAHA! Very good job, I like it alot! 5-5-5
Nice bit of writing here, Michael. Especially liked the "let the ground beef in" parts at the end. 555
Mmmmm! I love a good asparagus parody!
Excellent subs, including the title, which I never would have thought of (I did have "Hilarious/Let the puns fly, man!", but scrapped the idea). The outro is a bit different from my copy, but I won't hold it against you - nice variation there too.
Very funny and would honestly issue you your 5's just for using 'vituperation'!
Enjoyed it 5+5+5 times more than I do real asparagus !
yeah c'mon vegans...let that ground beef in...lol
yes, there really should be more asparagus parodies, although this one would be hard to beet, I mean beat - 555
Just the right amount of salt, made this very fresh, snappy, and tasty...
Great title and parody. A truly 5s dimension.
(SOTM) As above (I've already read alot of this months entries... kuel)
(SOTM) "Call any vegetable/ and the chances are good/ that the vegetable will respond to you."--Frank Zappa, 1966. Oh and 555
I hope you didn't turn into a vegatable writing this one
(SOTM) I'm sure a lot of us were toying around with this idea before you made it a reality, Mike. But considering that fact that I never liked vegetables much to begin with, I scrapped the idea. Needless to say, you really made this parody work... great title subs, TMGLTM, Who's Archie?, all in all a magnificent piece of writing. 455
(SOTM) Wow....raaaaandom. But you did a great job of it! VH1 should've played this on I Love The 70s! And Chris, I think he meant Archie Bunker of All In The Family.
(SOTM) *sniffs* Whew! All this asparagus is makin' the room stink! Oh wait, that's just me... (kidding)
SOTM - Asparagus, so that's the full name of guys called Gus, I can see why the name is shortened in daily speech, now I only wish I could see a way to wrap up this wacky comment before too... :-)
(SOTM) This is the dawning of the three fives Ill vote for this! BTW I did an asparagus parody like many moons moons aog, actually almosy 2 and half yera sago
(SOTM) I missed the meat of this parody, but the pacing was excellent.
(SOTM) This asparagus parody kinda grows on you. 555
(SOTM) Crunchy, nutritious, and off the wall!
(SOTM) What everyone else said, cuz I can't put what I want to say into words!
(SOTM) see above - very funny, Mike - this should go into the Pantheon of food parodies
(SOTM) This is a classic parody about a classic era. Top stuff, Michael! 555
I enjoyed it...would have liked more variation on the 1st and 3rd verses instead of just repeating them.
I wanted to like it. I really did. Sorry.
See above, and again, nice job.
I LOVE IT!... again... as above
cor ! talk about rolling back the years !absolutely marvelous 555
(Wild Card) Since the last time I commented, I can now put what I wanted to say into words: DKTOS, but that was so RANDOM that I love it!
(SOTMWC) That was actually very enticing, especially since I hate Asparagus. . .but just imagining it sung in that high angellic voice, got me cracking up. . .I would say this will be in my top 5, but you probably figured that since there are afterall 6 of us (5 me excluded) Good job though:)
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