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Song Parodies -> "Vets Do It (Let's Call O. 'Dove')"
Original Song Title:
"Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Ella Fitzgerald
Parody Song Title:
"Vets Do It (Let's Call O. 'Dove')"
Parody Written by:
Barry J. Mitchel
The Lyrics
I downloaded TOS to comment on the 44th US President's blaming of his predecessor, but the ethnically-insensitive title "Bush Do It" would yield to "Bush Did It." Then the current Cheney-Biden debate over national security and foreign policy supplied a worthier topic. As usual, I may have matched original phonemes too carefully, but they often suggest words and phrases I never could have imagined.
Kurds do it, Shi'as do it,
Even extant late VPs do it!
Vets do it; let's call O. "dove."
In radio, talk show hosts do it;
With what's plainly no regrets, do it.
Let's do it, let's call O. "dove."
El Rushbo's gold microphones cue it,
Brought invention to spin.
Yoked ditto-cams shew it:
Thinks with "I Am" he's twin. [1]
Some ardent Greens vent their spleens, spew it.
Students say if college tests their means, screw it.
Dems blew it, let's call off love. [2]
O. can't expunge Glenn Beck's crazed new wit.
Boist'rous clown Chicago's Way, slew it; [3]
Bets, due its debts, falls Big Gov.
Sean Hannity's greatest wish: do it;
Tease Emanuel "dead fish" through it, [4]
Sets to it; guests maul O-dove.
The Michael Steeles in Right ads do it,
Though twits mock them, I crow:
Sarah's no fad, rue it;
Palin brings in the dough! [5]
Tea-party goals swing the polls, brew it.
Bold wish is for primacy of souls, to wit: [6]
Let's stew it, let's stall Big Gov!
Even extant late VPs do it!
Vets do it; let's call O. "dove."
In radio, talk show hosts do it;
With what's plainly no regrets, do it.
Let's do it, let's call O. "dove."
El Rushbo's gold microphones cue it,
Brought invention to spin.
Yoked ditto-cams shew it:
Thinks with "I Am" he's twin. [1]
Some ardent Greens vent their spleens, spew it.
Students say if college tests their means, screw it.
Dems blew it, let's call off love. [2]
O. can't expunge Glenn Beck's crazed new wit.
Boist'rous clown Chicago's Way, slew it; [3]
Bets, due its debts, falls Big Gov.
Sean Hannity's greatest wish: do it;
Tease Emanuel "dead fish" through it, [4]
Sets to it; guests maul O-dove.
The Michael Steeles in Right ads do it,
Though twits mock them, I crow:
Sarah's no fad, rue it;
Palin brings in the dough! [5]
Tea-party goals swing the polls, brew it.
Bold wish is for primacy of souls, to wit: [6]
Let's stew it, let's stall Big Gov!
[1] "Talent on loan from God" actually applies to all of us mortals.
[2] Many who expected great favors from the "Yes, we can" man are frustrated.
[3] "I'm just a rodeo clown" is his trademark MSM putdown. "I found out, why can't they?"
[4] Claims that in a former role, Rahm mailed a dead fish to a political opponent.
[5] She reportedly donated a recent 0K speaking fee to the host Tea Party.
[6] The mortal souls that yearn for freedom, not the immortal spirits.
[2] Many who expected great favors from the "Yes, we can" man are frustrated.
[3] "I'm just a rodeo clown" is his trademark MSM putdown. "I found out, why can't they?"
[4] Claims that in a former role, Rahm mailed a dead fish to a political opponent.
[5] She reportedly donated a recent 0K speaking fee to the host Tea Party.
[6] The mortal souls that yearn for freedom, not the immortal spirits.
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Difficult song to execute due to Cole Porter's clever and eccentric lyrics. Fortunately, B.J.M. is more than up to the job! Just do it (and keep doing it)! ;D
I apologize for not crediting Ella's Cole Porter Songbook. I'd change "Sets to it" to "Sets view it" (TV) and "in the dough" to "scads of dough" (scad means a fish or a large catch).
Oops! Footnote 5 should say $100K, not 0K. Thanks, O.M.R., I shall continue.
Well-crafted piece of wordplay ... 555 :)
DKTOS but well written
PN: I supplied a link, under TOS at the top, to make it easy for anyone who DKTOS to KTOS. Fg, Thanks.
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