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Song Parodies -> "Sarah, You're My V.P. Now"
Original Song Title:
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
Original Performer:
Porgy and Bess
Parody Song Title:
"Sarah, You're My V.P. Now"
Parody Written by:
Melanie Lee
The Lyrics
Aren't they sweet together? OS (TV opera production, circa 1987): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZ0lqGIF74 OS excerpt (1959 movie): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1ZwCTHxIA&NR=1
JOHN McCAIN:
Sarah, you’re my V.P. now.
You are, you are,
And you must pull in the women and youth
And win their votes.
Mask the wrinkles on my face—
Erase—
Because Alaska’s governor is cute and young.
Oh Sarah, Sarah,
Our new victory has just begun.
SARAH PALIN:
Johnny, I’m your V.P. now.
I am, I am,
But I ain’t going to Washington
‘Less you win the votes.
There’s no wrinkles in my prime,
And I’m
Against abortion, for tax abatin’,
Against gay marriage, for N.R.A.-ing.
Johnny, I’m your V.P. now
And come November…
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time and swear-in time…
JOHN McCAIN:
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time and swear-in time.
Sarah, make me Prez.
[Sarah repeats her stanza while John sings in counterpart]
Sarah, be my V.P.!
Come January
We’ll make the White House ours—
Right-of-center pow’rs, for the next four years!
Oh, they’ll forget the Bushes!
McCain and Palin! McCain and Palin!
We’ll share the spoils,
Less leaning on foreign oil.
We’ll make this land safe again
And prosp’rous…
SARAH:
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time, and swear-in time.
JOHN:
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time and swear-in time.
SARAH:
Vote G.O.P.
Win, G.O.P. !
JOHN (simultaneously):
Go, right!
Win, right!
SARAH and JOHN:
Come November, I’m telling you,
We’ll make this run,
John and Sarah,
With the White House…
SARAH:
…won!
JOHN:
Sarah, we’ll have won now!
Sarah, you’re my V.P. now.
You are, you are,
And you must pull in the women and youth
And win their votes.
Mask the wrinkles on my face—
Erase—
Because Alaska’s governor is cute and young.
Oh Sarah, Sarah,
Our new victory has just begun.
SARAH PALIN:
Johnny, I’m your V.P. now.
I am, I am,
But I ain’t going to Washington
‘Less you win the votes.
There’s no wrinkles in my prime,
And I’m
Against abortion, for tax abatin’,
Against gay marriage, for N.R.A.-ing.
Johnny, I’m your V.P. now
And come November…
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time and swear-in time…
JOHN McCAIN:
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time and swear-in time.
Sarah, make me Prez.
[Sarah repeats her stanza while John sings in counterpart]
Sarah, be my V.P.!
Come January
We’ll make the White House ours—
Right-of-center pow’rs, for the next four years!
Oh, they’ll forget the Bushes!
McCain and Palin! McCain and Palin!
We’ll share the spoils,
Less leaning on foreign oil.
We’ll make this land safe again
And prosp’rous…
SARAH:
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time, and swear-in time.
JOHN:
Choosing time, convention time,
And voting time and swear-in time.
SARAH:
Vote G.O.P.
Win, G.O.P. !
JOHN (simultaneously):
Go, right!
Win, right!
SARAH and JOHN:
Come November, I’m telling you,
We’ll make this run,
John and Sarah,
With the White House…
SARAH:
…won!
JOHN:
Sarah, we’ll have won now!
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wonderfully written....good concept and the perfect song to apply it to...bravo !
I thought this was very good Melanie. The mental image of these two...on stage...mournfully belting this one out is priceless...
I believe AZ-John may just win himself a little "weissHaus Fun " !
What alvin and IB said.
UnKnownVO (no relation to SwingVO, I assume?) ... that crossed my mind as well.
UnKnownVO (no relation to SwingVO, I assume?) ... that crossed my mind as well.
Good job of working in 4 different kinds of time.
Mel, loved the OS that you selected to this parody ! ! Yeah, she makes him look & Act young, that CowboyMcCAIN ! She sets his 'spurs' aJinglin' ! . . . He needs no Stetson now !
Great job here! Now we need an Obama response..."It Ain't Necessarily So..."
MasonR. . ."Yes We Can Change it Now?
She'll be on Oprah not before long.
I don't know, she's pretty strong behind Obama--it'll be tougher for her to decide now. . .
3rd View: Mr T this is a very well chosen OS for this theme . . . that alone makes it so interesting . . . I can hear CowboyDave's NorCAL ' twang' whie reading this . . .
Yeah, she's "Porky" -- and I don't mean "fat" -- and he's "Mess."
RIP John McCain. That man's...gone now...
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