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Song Parodies -> "Sky's Back Pages"
Original Song Title:
"My Back Pages"
Original Performer:
Bob Dylan
Parody Song Title:
"Sky's Back Pages"
Parody Written by:
The Comedian
The Lyrics
CSICOP (pronounced "sigh-cop") is the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
Ships unnamed fly through light-years
Knowin' why Earth's mighty men
Trounce with lies and lame retorts
Those who sight ships in heav-en
"We'll ridicule them goons," said they,
Proud 'neath secret vows
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
Half-baked cover-ups leap forth
"Saucers are fake," they scream
Lies that space is black and dead
Break from their dull-eyed schemes
Top-secret facts of what's up there
My nation keeps, somehow
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
Mars' "face" --- it formed a forward path
To hope of honesty
For realizing all of this
Ancient space mystery
Torn down by CSICOP analysts
Thought-policemen unbowed
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
A self-ordained magician's tongue
Imperious and cool
Spouted out that U.F.O.s
Are just frivolity of fools
"Frivolity" ?
Revolting word!
Cast it upon the scow!
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
With emboldened glance, I aim my scope
At the stars above and reach
For a thought that might descend from heaven's sea
To humanity and preach
A pathway through adolescent wars
Scrutiny of Earth's dumb rows
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
Yes, a guard stands hard when aliens
Too powerful to stop
Come freely into the Earth's sky
With this message to drop ---
"Good or bad --- choose your destiny ---
--- end all Earth's wars, somehow!"
Ah, we'll sigh with so much bold love when
Our stellar friends land now!
Knowin' why Earth's mighty men
Trounce with lies and lame retorts
Those who sight ships in heav-en
"We'll ridicule them goons," said they,
Proud 'neath secret vows
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
Half-baked cover-ups leap forth
"Saucers are fake," they scream
Lies that space is black and dead
Break from their dull-eyed schemes
Top-secret facts of what's up there
My nation keeps, somehow
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
Mars' "face" --- it formed a forward path
To hope of honesty
For realizing all of this
Ancient space mystery
Torn down by CSICOP analysts
Thought-policemen unbowed
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
A self-ordained magician's tongue
Imperious and cool
Spouted out that U.F.O.s
Are just frivolity of fools
"Frivolity" ?
Revolting word!
Cast it upon the scow!
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
With emboldened glance, I aim my scope
At the stars above and reach
For a thought that might descend from heaven's sea
To humanity and preach
A pathway through adolescent wars
Scrutiny of Earth's dumb rows
Hubble's eye was so much bolder then
My government cracks down
Yes, a guard stands hard when aliens
Too powerful to stop
Come freely into the Earth's sky
With this message to drop ---
"Good or bad --- choose your destiny ---
--- end all Earth's wars, somehow!"
Ah, we'll sigh with so much bold love when
Our stellar friends land now!
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masterfully written...5s
Put this on the front page, and not just of the Weekly World News.
OH, this was great, JD...yeah, and what alvin and Michael P said, too...5's ~ ~ ~
Thanks, alvin, Michael, and Paul.
You, me, and Pacholek are the only 3 to do this under appreciated Dylan tune...one of my favs. I was "A Ledgeful Of Suicidal Yankee Fans" during the Yanks/ Sox series last fall, with MY YANK RAGES. This is an awesome job with a sore subject of mine...gov cover-up of UFO sightings. Masterfully done, Johnny. High 5's
Thanks, Dee. My mother, brother, and I once visited and interviewed the woman at the New Hampshire farmhouse located at the site of the famous UFO sighting recounted in John G. Fuller's book "Incident At Exeter". Also --- I have an uncle who is a retired Strategic Air Command (SAC) pilot of KC-135 refueling planes --- and he told members of my family that he has seen UFOs, that they are real physical objects, and that we must never ask him about them again.
My uncle's request to my family was worded something along the lines of "Please don't ask me anything more about it, I can't talk about it." Gently-worded, but the impression I get was that he really did not want us to ever ask him about U.F.O.s again.
Sounds like a serious X-File to me. 5's
Thanks, Pat!
I read once that John Lennon claimed to see a UFO in 1974, but when he called the police, he didn't give his last name, because they'd figure it was just "John being John" again. But when the cop came, he told Lennon that others had reported a UFO that night too. I also read that Jimmy Carter once claimed -- long after he left the White House -- that he'd seen a UFO. Good thing he didn't say so while he was President. He might have lost his bid for re-election in a landslide. Unless he said that Reagan stepped out of the UFO. Klaatu barada taxcuto.
(CLASSIC) I still like it.
The truth is out there, and the truth here is I like this!
This is a very poetic spoof.
(Classic tourney) Yes, quite poetic and satiricial. Like if Wordsworth collab'd with Mark Twain. :)
Classic: Well, once Bush gets us to Mars, maybe we'll shed some light on all this. Well written.
(CLASSIC) DKTOS, but really good parody.
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