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Song Parodies -> "Carbo Affair"

Original Song Title:

"Scarborough Fair"

Original Performer:

Marianne Faithful

Parody Song Title:

"Carbo Affair"

Parody Written by:

Merry & Pippin

The Lyrics

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Have you had a carbo affair?
Barley, maize, oats, buckwheat and rye
Be leaveny and soon will rise square
If yeast you add, bake in oven so fine

Toss out the steak - eat an all bran dessert
Pasta, cake, rolls, wheatgerm and soy
Maccaroni and noodles inert
And some chick peas do high fiber employ

Well, you should try it, not ponder scorn
Barley, maize, oats, buckwheat and rye
Then gobble some fruit (wince Adkins with horr')
And them-uesli your corpuscles do fine

Ah can you find me a bagel or yam
Pasta, cake, rolls, wheatgerm and soy
Between the s'ghetti and wholemeal bran
Root veggies, see, you'll love to enjoy

And have rice brown-ed with some sweet corn
Barley, maize, oats, buckwheat and rye
And cereal cover with fine sugar (brown)
And lentils, peas or cassava is fine!

And when you have cleaned your digestive tract
Pasta, cake, rolls, wheatgerm and soy
Then come to beans for your final act
And then you will all your lovers annoy...

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Overall Rating: 5.0

Total Votes: 20

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karen - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
I particularly liked the last verse
Catch 23 - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
Beans beans, good for the heart....great OS and nicely done parody,
alvin rhodes - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
you hobbits are magicians with words....what a scream
John Barry - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
Your cultivation of the poetic garden continues to produce bumper crops.
AFW - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
Top shelf food parody
Meriadoc - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
Thank you all - it started out a straight 'grain oreinted' parody, but then all those veggies and pasta crept in, so I decided might as well end it with a good fart joke... ;-)
nally - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
I've known the original song for years! Nicely done.
PMS - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
A 555 calorie treat
malcolm higgins - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
we love yur fart jokes, Merry....:)
Susanna Viljanen - November 08, 2006 - Report this comment
With diet like that you'll soon weigh 555 kg.
nally - November 09, 2006 - Report this comment
Ooh wait...yesterday I voted before realizing you had credited Marianne Faithful as the performer! :-[ I only know Simon & Garfunkel's version, but I'm sure they're pretty much the same. I still gave it a 5-5-5.
Michael Pacholek - November 09, 2006 - Report this comment
You're upper-crust with this one.
mandamoo - November 10, 2006 - Report this comment
Sounds like a windy affair ! Funny.
Meriadoc - November 10, 2006 - Report this comment
Thanks again everyone.

Nally, they are quite a bit different actually - listen to the clip above and you will see. I think Marianne's version is far superior myself...
Red Ant - November 11, 2006 - Report this comment
I listened to MF's version of the song; IMHO S&G's version is much better, but anyway... this flows quite well to her version, and the ending was awesome. =)
Philip Eno - November 13, 2006 - Report this comment
Jeff does not capitalize his screenname.
Stuart McArthur - November 13, 2006 - Report this comment
nobody else could have come up with "s'ghetti" Merry!! - and I'm glad to see Atkins made his way in - great 2nd verselines too - 555
Peregrin - November 15, 2006 - Report this comment
Philip, does your comment have some sort of context? It is a bit lost on me at present, I am afraid :(
Philip Eno - November 15, 2006 - Report this comment
Sorry. You probably don't frequent the messageboard, so you probably don't know nally's real name.
wandlimb - February 02, 2007 - Report this comment
Fries with that?

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