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Song Parodies -> "What Do You Do With A Gypsy Franchise"
Original Song Title:
"What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor"
Original Performer:
Traditional
Parody Song Title:
"What Do You Do With A Gypsy Franchise"
Parody Written by:
Callmelennie
The Lyrics
NFL Films created NFL highlight films and combined the video with background music. Sometimes the score was inspired and sometimes it was absolutely atrocious ..... The most inspired background score ever was the use of "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor" as background to one of the great stories of NFL history .... How a failed franchise moved to Baltimore and, behind a castoff QB (Johnny Unitas) and some retread defensive players, and a toad of a wide receiver* who was so slow his 40 could have been timed with a sundial won the first NFL championship game to go into OT ... and in the process put the NFL on the map .. And just to make the story even more dramatic, the most important defensive play in the game was made Geno Marchetti, who broke his ankle on the play. So lets add some lyrics to the score
What do you do with a gypsy franchise
What do you do with a gypsy franchise
What do you with a gypsy franchise
Early in the Fifties
Way hey and up she rises
Way hey and up she rises
Way hey and up she rises
Early in the Fifties
Put em on the field with a castoff QB
Put em on the field with a castoff QB
Put em on the field with a castoff QB
Early in the season
Way hey and up he rises
Way hey and up he rises
Way hey, its John Unitas
Early in the Fifties
Shore up the D with a monster lineman
Shore up the D with a monster lineman
Shore up the D with a brute named Daddy
Early in the season
Way hey and up he rises
Cut down by addict vices
Life would end in drug fueled crisis**
Early in the Sixties
Play for the ring at Yankee stadium
Play for the ring at Yankee Stadium
Play for the ring at Yankee Stadium
Early in December
Way hey the upstart rises
Way hey, for ultimate prizes
Way hey, the upstart rises
Early in December
Get a big stop from a gimp named Geno
Made a big stop and broke his ankle
Get a big stop from a gimp named Geno
Midway thru the fourth Q
Way hey and down he crashes
Giant's hopes he dashes
Way, hey and down he crashes
Midway thru the fourth Q
Drive for the tie behind a toad receiver
Move down the field with a toad receiver
Drive for the tie behind a toad receiver
Almost no more time left
Way hey and up he rises
Way up for a pass from Unitas
Way hey and up he rises
To get them into OT
Hand it to "The Horse" and win in OT
Put it in the hands of Al Ameche
Hand off to "The Horse" and win in OT
Midway in the OT
Way hey and up it rise
Way hey and up it rise
Way hey the viewership rises
Going into Sixties
That's what you do with a gypsy franchise
That's what you do with a gypsy franchise
Thats what you do with a gypsy franchise
Early in the Fifties
What do you do with a gypsy franchise
What do you with a gypsy franchise
Early in the Fifties
Way hey and up she rises
Way hey and up she rises
Way hey and up she rises
Early in the Fifties
Put em on the field with a castoff QB
Put em on the field with a castoff QB
Put em on the field with a castoff QB
Early in the season
Way hey and up he rises
Way hey and up he rises
Way hey, its John Unitas
Early in the Fifties
Shore up the D with a monster lineman
Shore up the D with a monster lineman
Shore up the D with a brute named Daddy
Early in the season
Way hey and up he rises
Cut down by addict vices
Life would end in drug fueled crisis**
Early in the Sixties
Play for the ring at Yankee stadium
Play for the ring at Yankee Stadium
Play for the ring at Yankee Stadium
Early in December
Way hey the upstart rises
Way hey, for ultimate prizes
Way hey, the upstart rises
Early in December
Get a big stop from a gimp named Geno
Made a big stop and broke his ankle
Get a big stop from a gimp named Geno
Midway thru the fourth Q
Way hey and down he crashes
Giant's hopes he dashes
Way, hey and down he crashes
Midway thru the fourth Q
Drive for the tie behind a toad receiver
Move down the field with a toad receiver
Drive for the tie behind a toad receiver
Almost no more time left
Way hey and up he rises
Way up for a pass from Unitas
Way hey and up he rises
To get them into OT
Hand it to "The Horse" and win in OT
Put it in the hands of Al Ameche
Hand off to "The Horse" and win in OT
Midway in the OT
Way hey and up it rise
Way hey and up it rise
Way hey the viewership rises
Going into Sixties
That's what you do with a gypsy franchise
That's what you do with a gypsy franchise
Thats what you do with a gypsy franchise
Early in the Fifties
* Raymond Berry ..... **The one truly tragic story here .. Eugene "Bid Daddy" Lipscomb, an absolute freak of nature who would have been in the NFL HOF had he not tried a taste of heroin and died of an overdose in 1962. He also has issues with alchohol
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I've been away for a long time. How are things going at AIR? Odd choice for the NFL theme, but it is quite dramatic when played properly. Hoping for a Chiefs return to the Super Bowl. How many of the Old Timers are still here? Noticed that someone is still doing "I Put A Spell On You".
But that wasnt an old timer. Thats the first IPASOY to show up in a while. "Drunken Sailor" as an instrumental is quite evocative of a past time, which is what NFL Films was trying to evoke -- the modern NFL in its infancy. As for AIR, it seems dead in the water at times, and then you seek a week like this when theres lots of activity. And you will see old timers pop out of nowhere. Merry and Pippin have made a re appearance. And the whole Ukraine situation stirred up a huge response from Susanna. But then again. she"s Finnish and there appears to be hard feelings between Russia and Finland.
Hi Patrick! Good to see you :)
I see Susanna a lot on Quora. Just looked at today's offerings and saw a lot of familiar names. I need to get back in the groove. It's a hobby that doesn't cost a lot of money.
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