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Song Parodies -> "The Unemployment Song"
Original Song Title:
"We Didn't Start The Fire"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Billy Joel
Parody Song Title:
"The Unemployment Song"
Parody Written by:
Agrimorfee
The Lyrics
Burger flipper, ditch digger, bus driver, nit picker
Place kicker, stamp licker, chauffeur for the Pope
Rug cleaner, plate spinner, window washer, switch hitter
Bubble blower, babysitter, milker of a goat
Car attendant, professor, Santa Claus, assessor
Bed warmer, horn blower, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
Stock boy, bell ringer, lounge singer—kitschy!
Piano tuner, buzzard shooter, Hollywood's newest star
(Chorus) I just wanna get hired
I got a yearnin' to get some earnin'
I just wanna get hired
Here's an application for your consideration
Tune-up man for your car, or the tender of the bar
Oyster shucker, chicken plucker, darner of a sock
Answer phone on your own, vendor of a sno-cone
Taxi driver, pearl diver, loader on the dock
Mortician, beautician, an electrician, trade bargainer for Japan
Corn husker, fireman, butcher, baker, candlestick maker
Auctioneer, musketeer, just get me a good career! (Chorus)
Timekeeper, hygienist, beekeeper, a typist
Jeweler, brick layer, any kind of manager
Movie usher, editor, garbage man, creditor
Shipping clerk, soda jerk, boyoboy, I gotta work!
High priest, neurologist, astronaut, psychologist
Guru, medico, emcee on a game show
Engineer, ringmaster, ballerina, sand blaster
Player of the bongos, that's the way this song goes! (Chorus)
Senator, Congressman, riveter, ice-cream man
Tapper, flapper, topographic mapper
Ruler of Albania (or maybe Transylvania)
Chorister, bandleader, brewer of a good beer
Collect income tax, advise on how to have good sex
Taster of Beaujolais, I just got to get some pay! (Chorus)
Tennis player, ghost buster, deer slayer, claims adjuster
Lobbyist, podiatrist, big man at the chopping block
Preacher, entrepreneur, bleacher, or French masseur
Urologist, proctor, monologist, actor
Pillow stuffer, maintenance, vinyl buffer, manifest
Street cleaner, lion tamer, bird feeder, Hall-of-Famer
Lifeguard on the shore, waxer of the kitchen floor
Do not begin to be a whore, that's one thing I must implore!
I just wanna get hired
I got a yearnin' to get some earnin'
We just wanna get hired
But the unemployment line just goes on and on...
Place kicker, stamp licker, chauffeur for the Pope
Rug cleaner, plate spinner, window washer, switch hitter
Bubble blower, babysitter, milker of a goat
Car attendant, professor, Santa Claus, assessor
Bed warmer, horn blower, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
Stock boy, bell ringer, lounge singer—kitschy!
Piano tuner, buzzard shooter, Hollywood's newest star
(Chorus) I just wanna get hired
I got a yearnin' to get some earnin'
I just wanna get hired
Here's an application for your consideration
Tune-up man for your car, or the tender of the bar
Oyster shucker, chicken plucker, darner of a sock
Answer phone on your own, vendor of a sno-cone
Taxi driver, pearl diver, loader on the dock
Mortician, beautician, an electrician, trade bargainer for Japan
Corn husker, fireman, butcher, baker, candlestick maker
Auctioneer, musketeer, just get me a good career! (Chorus)
Timekeeper, hygienist, beekeeper, a typist
Jeweler, brick layer, any kind of manager
Movie usher, editor, garbage man, creditor
Shipping clerk, soda jerk, boyoboy, I gotta work!
High priest, neurologist, astronaut, psychologist
Guru, medico, emcee on a game show
Engineer, ringmaster, ballerina, sand blaster
Player of the bongos, that's the way this song goes! (Chorus)
Senator, Congressman, riveter, ice-cream man
Tapper, flapper, topographic mapper
Ruler of Albania (or maybe Transylvania)
Chorister, bandleader, brewer of a good beer
Collect income tax, advise on how to have good sex
Taster of Beaujolais, I just got to get some pay! (Chorus)
Tennis player, ghost buster, deer slayer, claims adjuster
Lobbyist, podiatrist, big man at the chopping block
Preacher, entrepreneur, bleacher, or French masseur
Urologist, proctor, monologist, actor
Pillow stuffer, maintenance, vinyl buffer, manifest
Street cleaner, lion tamer, bird feeder, Hall-of-Famer
Lifeguard on the shore, waxer of the kitchen floor
Do not begin to be a whore, that's one thing I must implore!
I just wanna get hired
I got a yearnin' to get some earnin'
We just wanna get hired
But the unemployment line just goes on and on...
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I thought this was really funny! It´s not perfect, there´s choruses missing and you REALLY should use empty lines to separete verses and choruses etc. But because I haven´t seen your name before, and it did make me laugh, I´m gonna give you the newbie encouragment treatment. 455.
Very fun to read!
See? Spacing, spacing (Or I can use that as an excuse to plug my version, "We Didn't Quite Retire")
Wow! Intense!
Pretty good, but a little off. Still, a good message for a lousy Bush economy, be it 1990 or 2003.
Whew!! What a pace, great job, fives sir.
Thanks, Rod!
This came up on a random selection, but given the timing, had you considered using it for the ABCs U round? IMO, it's excellent.
"I Need Some Career" too, maybe a job fair will open up soon
(ABC) What Johnny D said in 2003!
(ABC-U) Thanks for breaking this out for ABC's Agri. I'll send you 555 applications.
(ABC3-U) That's one hell of a resume. Kinda like Homer Simpson's. Awesome job Agri!
Funny now, but in about 2 years this one will be getting a 5-1-5.
(ABC3-U) Damned excellent work for a 17 year old parody. Only complaint was the format made it hard to follow in spots. 5s.
I just clicked over to your page and saw this.
Now, that's what I call some forward thinking...
Now, that's what I call some forward thinking...
Good work just thinking of all those different occupations!
Michael McVey's comment above was SPOT ON!.
Pretty clunky but still pretty good. Pretty old parody but still has some relevance for now.
Wow, a lot of parodists pulled one from their past for this round. Nice concept, and if you ever get tired of that "taster of Beaujolais" job, let me know.
(Artistry) Now that I've more thoroughly read this, I have to say...wow, this is not one of your best. I know it's a pretty old parody, but unfortunately, it shows. I'd love to see you re-do this one, it'd be quite awesome. As is though...most unfortunate.
One of your older ones, very well done. I enjoyed reading a parody to a tough OS from your past.
You know I like it because I recorded it, however I have to admit significant editing had to be done to make it fit because the pacing was rough buddy. . .but you've come a long way, and the concept was still great.
Darner of a sock - LOL!
Missed this first time around. This is very epic, considering you wrote this during my first month on the site! Now I FEEL OLD!
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