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Song Parodies -> "At the Greek Taverna"
Original Song Title:
"'Heroes'"
Original Performer:
David Bowie
Parody Song Title:
"At the Greek Taverna"
Parody Written by:
Agrimorfee
The Lyrics
This is the album version...stanzas for the single version (as released on "Best of Bowie") are marked with * for your convenience.
I, I am starving
And you, you look peak-ed
There's one thing for our meal, I say
We can eat them, try them today
We can eat gyros, on special today
Now you, you will drink wine
And I, I'll drink retsina
Get the bottles straight off the rack
Appetizer? Feta cheese toasted black
The pitas will hold them together
The sauce is fine
Smells good today
I could eat gyros for ever and ever
Every day
*I am proposing a toast
To Spiro, our wonderful Host
The pitas
Pitas will hold it together
We could eat them, for ever and ever
Oh we could eat gyros
Every day
*I, I am waiting
And you, you're looking green
The service is quite busy today
We will eat gyros some time today
Delicious, on special today
Hey! Here is the waiter (it's the waiter!)
Walking...down the hall (down the hall!)
With the plates high above his head
(over his head)
And we kiss
As he serves us all
(food didn't fall)
And the meat is on the well-cooked side
Oh, I could eat them for ever and ever
Yes, I could eat gyros
Every day
*We now eat gyros
We now eat gyros
We now eat gyros
On special today
We just eat gyros
It's filling...it's filling our stomachs
I am not lying
I ate thirteen today!
I am the Champ Eater
For Saturday
ohhhh, ohhh, ohhh, ohh
Ate too much today...
And you, you look peak-ed
There's one thing for our meal, I say
We can eat them, try them today
We can eat gyros, on special today
Now you, you will drink wine
And I, I'll drink retsina
Get the bottles straight off the rack
Appetizer? Feta cheese toasted black
The pitas will hold them together
The sauce is fine
Smells good today
I could eat gyros for ever and ever
Every day
*I am proposing a toast
To Spiro, our wonderful Host
The pitas
Pitas will hold it together
We could eat them, for ever and ever
Oh we could eat gyros
Every day
*I, I am waiting
And you, you're looking green
The service is quite busy today
We will eat gyros some time today
Delicious, on special today
Hey! Here is the waiter (it's the waiter!)
Walking...down the hall (down the hall!)
With the plates high above his head
(over his head)
And we kiss
As he serves us all
(food didn't fall)
And the meat is on the well-cooked side
Oh, I could eat them for ever and ever
Yes, I could eat gyros
Every day
*We now eat gyros
We now eat gyros
We now eat gyros
On special today
We just eat gyros
It's filling...it's filling our stomachs
I am not lying
I ate thirteen today!
I am the Champ Eater
For Saturday
ohhhh, ohhh, ohhh, ohh
Ate too much today...
Copyright 2004, Agrimorfee. Hopa!!
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Another one I had to look up the original...it's all Greek to me!
April SOTM - This one's just plain hysterical!
I liked this one. I used to play greek music in one of my many musical incarnations. Never got into the food too much.
Nice job!
Dammit! I shouldn't read parodies while hungry! (And I don't dare go get some food - or the next one I read will probably be about poop...!) :-P Good job 5-5-5.
One of the above didn't vote, methinks.... This was a really good job with a hard song to work with Agri....
Very good parody, but Greek food is more than just feta cheese, pita bread, and gyros. What about shish kabob, hummus, falafel, and baklava?
Mmmmm....
I was in Greece once (no, really). They had the BEST melons. Honest. Anyway, five broken plates for you.
Darn you, I'm already hungry. Anyway, 4/5/5
Good job with a hard song. I am kinda hungry, now.
Good one, Aggro. Fave line: "I could eat gyros for ever and ever." I could, too. And hey, "Greek Taverna" would be a great sub for "Beast of Burden." Hmmm...
SOTM - Hey, a food parody that DOESN'T ruin your appetite! Great job except now I'm hungry again. 5's.
(ABC) DKTOS...good read!
(FOOD) DKTOS, but this must be some kind of Gyro. Read and tasted fine though.
(FOOD) Greece is the word...just wipe it off your face after your meal. An Olympic effort, Aggy.
(FOOD) wish I wasn't following Luke on all these - he keeps pinching my lines - nice one agri - tough OS to do
Stuart's Line: Woah! Where are we? Is this a dream? Luke: *pinch!* Stuart's Line: OUCH!
(Food) See above!
FOOD - Mmm...Guyros
See above!
(FOOD) Same as I said back in May, except this time I ate before I came over here. 5's...
(Food) I wonder if these are the gyros Billy ordered! 555!
(ABC A & B) Love David Bowie, likewise with gyros, Feta cheese, Greek salads, "The Iliad & The Odyssey", and ancient Greek history. Heck, even my name is widely used in Greece! :-) Excellent job on the parody all around, and 5s FTW. Better go and vote on other parodies now before I slack off and go up to the corner store for some gyros!
(ABC A & B) Agri.....your making me...hungry!!!
LOL!
I only know of this song because of it's inclusion in Moulin Rogue's "Elephant Love Medley" but still this was a great parody (although it made me hungrier and I'm already starving!)
gotta fess up..i had to google "Gyros" i thought they were unemployment cheques lol. gluttony in a greek stylie very good parody but then its what we expect from you ! 555
ABC- Not a Bowie fan...or greek food for that matter...so everything is kind of lost on me...but good job anyway!
(ABC-AB) Um...what Abbott said!
New OS and new parody to me. and tho I just ate, this made we want to go get some gyros. Well served, Aggyro.
I can't believe I hadn't commented on this before, this is one of your classics. You know this is good Agri.
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