HEED THE CALL! YOUR SARCASM AND WIT IS NEEDED!
So, most of you all you know me for reals know that I also muck around with the old-timey-esque musics. This past week we learned the old Everly Brothers tune (covered most recently by Neko Case) “Bowling Green.” As some of you may be aware, a little known opthamologist from Bowling Green named Rand Paul recently won a Republican Primary in the state of Kentucky, and hopes to replace that (un)beloved old codger Jim Bunning in the US Senate.
Listening to and learning the tune made our intrepid guitar player (Mr. SFL) think of the endless and hilarious possibilities that it offered for parodying, you guessed it, Rand Paul and the TEAfolk voters who elected him.
So, we are offering up a challenge: take the lyrics to the song “Bowling Green” and compose a parody featuring the Tea Party’s champion du jour. We will take the lyrics we like best (whole cloth from what you post, or we might mix/match/edit) and record them for your enjoyment … and post them for the world to hear on YouTube.
Here’s the actual tune (the uberawesome Neko Case’s version – a duet with A.C. Newman from The New Pornographers”):
And here are the ‘original’ lyrics:
Way down in Bowling Green
Prettiest girls I’ve ever seen
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
To live down in Bowling Green
Bowling Green folks treat you kind
They let you think your own mind
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
In Bowling Green you walk your own line
Chorus:
Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold
It warms the body
And I know it touches the soul
Bluegrass is fine
Kentucky owns my mind
The fields down in Bowling Green
Have the softest grass i’ve ever seen
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
To lie down in Bowling Green
Bowling Green girls treat you right
They wear dresses cut country tight
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
If he’s seen the Bowling Green light
Chorus:
Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold
It warms the body
And I know it touches the soul
Bluegrass is fine
Kentucky owns my mind
Bowling Green Bowling Green
Bowling Green Bowling Green
Bowling Green Bowling Green
Bowling Green Bowling Green
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Jolly Roger said,
June 9, 2010 at 8:02 pm
In Kentucky, misters choose their sisters-and guarantee the Rushpubliscum Party a future base of voters 🙂
rob4drok said,
June 11, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Here are the submissions I received on Facebook:
#1
Way down in Bowling Green
Conservativest man I’ve ever seen
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
To get teabagged in Bowling Green
(Background: Paul Paul Paul)
If infrastructure crumbles who cares
Taxes should be flat or fair
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
In Bowling Green you push your own chair
Tea Party claptrap makes the heart close down
Ignore the needy
And help the government to drown
Objectivism is fine
Tea Party owns my mind
Teabaggers want progress to halt
Take civil rights with a grain of salt
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
Everyone’s all going Galt!
Regulators all should just quit
Businesses say who can sit
Speaking of Galt
It’s not BP’s fault
The rich deserve all that they get
The economy may be tight
But will be better when states have their rights
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
If he’s famous and wealthy and white.
Tea Party claptrap makes the heart close down
Ignore the needy
And help the government to drown
Objectivism is fine
Tea Party owns my mind
Bowling Green Weak Caffeine
Bowling Green Full of Spleen
Bowling Green Sure is Mean
Bowling Green Mujahadeen
#2
Way down in Bowling Green
The strangest voters I’ve ever seen
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
With teabaggers in Bowling Green
Bowling Green folks have no tact
They love their guns and that’s a fact
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
Unless he likes the Civil Rights Act
Chorus:
Kentucky doctor hates the government
And regulations
Unless they’re about your bedroom
Glenn Beck is fine
And Fox News owns his mind
The voters in Bowling Green
Have the softest heads I’ve ever seen
A doc in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
For teabaggers in Bowling Green
Way down in Bowling Green
The teabaggers get really mean
A man in Kentucky
Is unlucky
If he needs help in Bowling Green
Chorus:
Kentucky doctor hates the government
And regulations
Unless they’re about your bedroom
Glenn Beck is fine
And Fox News owns their minds
Bowling Green Bowling Green
Bowling Green Bowling Green
Bowling Green Bowling Green
Bowling Green Bowling Green
#3
Rand Paul is on a roll
Republican votes he did cajole
Rookie from Kentucky
Trin’ to get lucky
Headin’ for the Senate’s dole.
Teabaggers lovin’ this new Paul
Buying in his plan and all
Empty promise makin’
None care that he’s fakin’
Underpants gnomes’ plans and all.
Chorus #1:
Ah, attorney Conway’s generally a coot
A man we should trust, but
The teapot is starting to toot;
On white angst they dote
Diebold will be counting votes…
Smart voters don’t see a lock
When to November polls they will flock
Sayin’ somethin’ crazy
Pauls’ political daisies
Will be pushing up all ‘round the clock.
Chorus #2:
Oh, the tea Paul’s abrewin’ is now bitter made
from fear, guns & taxes…
We will not drink your Kool-Aid.
Think “BP just made some mistakes?”
Vote Conway before its too late…
Rand Paul is crazy. Rand Paul is crazy.
Rand Paul is crazy. Rand Paul is crazy.
Rand Paul is crazy; Vote, don’t be lazy.
He’s a crazy bird. Vote or get what you deserve…
#4
Way down in Bowling Green
Civil rights we wish we’d never seen
But this man in Kentucky
Is righteous and plucky
He’ll fight for the rights of the white regime
If brown folks want you to treat them kind
Now you can pay them no mind
Teabaggers rejoice
It’s a brave new voice
In Rand Paul no mercy they will find
Chorus:
Only Libertarians can do the math
Market worship
Is the one true path
Deregulate
No power to the state
A maverick who gets the view
That companies are people too
Stop harassing BP
They’re just like you or me
So what if marine life they will screw?
Sexy Sarah would treat him right
Prada dresses, price outta sight
Your tax dollars
Make Rand holler
When Palin spends them on skirts so tight
Chorus:
Only Rand Paul can do the math
Pantywaist liberals
Will incur his wrath
Government is too large
Unless he’s in charge
Liberty, liberty
Brave Rand Paul, deliver me
Glenn Beck can be your VP
Sweet Rand Paul, deliver me
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