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Song Parodies -> "Why Can't the Bushes?"
Original Song Title:
"Why Can't the English?"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Rex Harrison
Parody Song Title:
"Why Can't the Bushes?"
Parody Written by:
Michael Pacholek
The Lyrics
Like I said, I'm not trying to parody the entire "My Fair Lady" soundtrack. But if it works out that way...
Look at him, he drags us to the gutters!
The press buys every syllable he utters!
The people, all along we have been strung
by his cold-blooded twisting of the English tongue!
(Nucular!)
"Nucular?"
Heavens, what a sound!
This is what the U.S. population
calls an accurate pronunciation?
(Oh, come, sir. I think you picked a poor example!)
Have I?
Here them in the Texas dust
dropping G's as if they must
speaking that way without any qualm!
You, sir, did you go to school?
(What, y'all think that Ah'm a fool?)
Well, no one taught you "I'm" instead of "Ah'm"!
Hear the Georgians speak, or worse
Mississippians converse!
I'd rather hear Ms. Federline sing flat!
Morons, speech to make me moan!
Just like this one!
(Bring it own!)
"Bring it own"?
I ask you, sir, what sort of speech is that?
It's "nucular" and "bring it own" that's a disgrace
not just the lies that come out of his face!
Why can't the Bushes teach their children how to speak?
They cruise through education always in a fit of pique.
If you spoke as Dubya does instead of the way you do
why, you might be seen as stupid, too!
(I beg your pardon, sir!)
A President's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
The moment Bush talks
he shows that's what should have disqualified him!
Smart, thinking President, we'll have to wait to get.
Why can't the Bushes learn to
set a good example
of proper spech for our President?
His father thinks it would not be prudent!
There even are places where such a man could just be sent!
Well, in America, we would then be content!
Why can't the Bushes teach their children how to speak?
Tom Jefferson spoke Italian!
Jim Garfield, he knew Greek!
In France, every Frenchman learns his language from A to Zed...
Well, the French already know that Bush doesn't have the capacity to learn proper English
in his head!
Arabians learned our language
with the speed of summer lightning
but Bush tried to ignore this
with results that were so frightening!
But use proper English, Dubya thinks that's you're a freak!
Why can't George Dubya
Why can't George Dubya
learn
to speak!
The press buys every syllable he utters!
The people, all along we have been strung
by his cold-blooded twisting of the English tongue!
(Nucular!)
"Nucular?"
Heavens, what a sound!
This is what the U.S. population
calls an accurate pronunciation?
(Oh, come, sir. I think you picked a poor example!)
Have I?
Here them in the Texas dust
dropping G's as if they must
speaking that way without any qualm!
You, sir, did you go to school?
(What, y'all think that Ah'm a fool?)
Well, no one taught you "I'm" instead of "Ah'm"!
Hear the Georgians speak, or worse
Mississippians converse!
I'd rather hear Ms. Federline sing flat!
Morons, speech to make me moan!
Just like this one!
(Bring it own!)
"Bring it own"?
I ask you, sir, what sort of speech is that?
It's "nucular" and "bring it own" that's a disgrace
not just the lies that come out of his face!
Why can't the Bushes teach their children how to speak?
They cruise through education always in a fit of pique.
If you spoke as Dubya does instead of the way you do
why, you might be seen as stupid, too!
(I beg your pardon, sir!)
A President's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
The moment Bush talks
he shows that's what should have disqualified him!
Smart, thinking President, we'll have to wait to get.
Why can't the Bushes learn to
set a good example
of proper spech for our President?
His father thinks it would not be prudent!
There even are places where such a man could just be sent!
Well, in America, we would then be content!
Why can't the Bushes teach their children how to speak?
Tom Jefferson spoke Italian!
Jim Garfield, he knew Greek!
In France, every Frenchman learns his language from A to Zed...
Well, the French already know that Bush doesn't have the capacity to learn proper English
in his head!
Arabians learned our language
with the speed of summer lightning
but Bush tried to ignore this
with results that were so frightening!
But use proper English, Dubya thinks that's you're a freak!
Why can't George Dubya
Why can't George Dubya
learn
to speak!
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And why can't the Bushes learn to govern?
Lover-ly, Michael, simply lover-ly.
Good job. Without a script, Bush is even more inarticulate. Don't worry about the 1 votes--some right-winger doesn't like his prez being made fun of.
This semi-right winger has to give you 5s. It does disappoint me that President Bush's pronounciation is not better, but I'd like to point out that he is like democracy - for all of their flaws - they are still better than the alternatives.
So who are "the alternatives," Jenk? Al Gore and John Kerry were two really good alternatives. OK, it appears to be a rather tenable position that Albert Arnold Gore Junior may have been somewhat over-extended in the patterns of his speaking comma... but every time Bush opens his lie-loaded mouth, I wanna put him in... a lock box.
excellent Michael - looking forward to Rain In Spain - 555
It's great to see a Bush parody focussing on something other than his rotten politics. Great job, Mike..555
Stuart: Being from the other side of the world, you won't know who Edwin Newman was. He was an NBC journalist and a curmudgeon who complained about the decline of the English language. He once guested on "Saturday Night Live" wondering, with Joe Piscopo as Tom Snyder, "Why can't the networks teach their anchors how to speak?" Tending bar for them was Brad Hall -- now best known as Julia Louis-Dreyfus' husband, they met as SNL cast members -- and he sang, "All I want is a desk somewhere, 30 minutes of network air, someone to spray my hair, oh, wouldn't I be newsworthy?" Newman asked him to deliver the news of the day, and he came up with "Iranians' pains come mainly from Khomeini" and "Terrain in Maine is stained with acid rain."
That is briiliant stuff - I can see why you'd remember it - we actually get SNL here on cable but they're old shows - still some gems in there though, and often all the more watchable for being a bit out of date - I got hooked on Steve Martin from his early SNL stuff, and still have it all on tape, eg Family Feud etc....
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