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Song Parodies -> "Thing on the Road"
Original Song Title:
"King of the Road"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Roger Miller
Parody Song Title:
"Thing on the Road"
Parody Written by:
Phil Alexander
The Lyrics
Over here in the UK they're using hedgehogs for road safety advertisements... yeah, right - that really makes sense. So this is a sort of road safety parody, to go with the hedgehogs
Oh, dear something went SPLAT!
Was it a hedgehog... or a cat?
I wonder what was that
Thing I've just squashed flat
Ah, but
As I drive, I hear a "bump"
In the road, a little lump
Wonder what was that sump-
Thing on the road?
Hedgehog, he doesn't crawl
Away, no he makes a ball
But that's no use at all
'Gainst a truck three metres tall
Kids too have no defence
Though a car, it may get dents
You'll be, if you got no sense: a
Thing on the road
Believe me, kids, it really pays
To pay attention and look both ways
Make sure that you've been seen
And the traffic has stopped
When the man goes green
Something that I have found
On the road and all around
A furry little mound
Just roadkill on the ground
So, kids, you know you must
Keep a lookout, as we discussed
Don't want to end up just a
Thing on the road
Was it a hedgehog... or a cat?
I wonder what was that
Thing I've just squashed flat
Ah, but
As I drive, I hear a "bump"
In the road, a little lump
Wonder what was that sump-
Thing on the road?
Hedgehog, he doesn't crawl
Away, no he makes a ball
But that's no use at all
'Gainst a truck three metres tall
Kids too have no defence
Though a car, it may get dents
You'll be, if you got no sense: a
Thing on the road
Believe me, kids, it really pays
To pay attention and look both ways
Make sure that you've been seen
And the traffic has stopped
When the man goes green
Something that I have found
On the road and all around
A furry little mound
Just roadkill on the ground
So, kids, you know you must
Keep a lookout, as we discussed
Don't want to end up just a
Thing on the road
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Ah, the hedgehog...this reminded me of that one video I saw in biology where the Australian driver swerved to hit the cane toads in the middle of the road :-D
lol. Slightly twisted, my kind of parody!
You da KING Phil!
Good stuff! This sort of reminds me of the old classic "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" (Loudon Wainwright III, I think). Nice job.
Hedgehogs? lol...I love Brittish people!
Oh no - it wasn't our beloved Spiny Norman, was it?
"Max-Grody" but funny, Philbo...
here's some fives...about 3 years late
Pacing seems a little off, but for the most part I can see how to stretch it, and frankly Miller stretches it all over the place himself from verse to verse.
BY THE GLOWING CANDLELIGHT ROADKILL FOR DINNER TONIGHT,CANT TELL WHAT IT WAS,ITS ALL COVERED WITH FUZZ,SO SOMEONE LIGHT THE GRILL' TONIGHT WERE HAVING ROADKILL,ITS WAS A OPOSSUM NOT PLAYING DEAD' ALL I DO IS CUT OFF THE HEAD'
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