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Song Parodies -> "This is Coronavirus"
Original Song Title:
"We Didn't Start the Fire"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Billy Joel
Parody Song Title:
"This is Coronavirus"
Parody Written by:
Kim McCarthy
The Lyrics
I wrote this at the start of May in 2020 because I clearly had no idea how much more insane things were about to get.
Healthy humans, gone away, Bat, China, Donnie says
Not horrific, loss of smell, We’re in Quarantine
Tony Fauci, Social Distance, No one making television
Testing great in South Korea, It’s Covid-19.
Cases surge, Wuhan, homemade masks, close salons,
Brady to Tampa Bay, left Boston on St. Patrick's Day
Working on a vaccine, Britain's PM quarantined,
Paper Towels, Sanitizer, Toilet Paper, Doomsday
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Remote learning, Zoom to teach, Florida won't close the beach
Rockefeller Center closed with the whole block
Clorox all gone, Trump's Pressers drag on
Global stocks fall, so much time to walk
Binge wine, hands clean, no one watching their home team
Davy Crocket, Peter Pan, they’re all closed at Disneyland
Locked down Italy, singing from balconies
Tiger King, Closed Beijing, NHL is in a freeze
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Sleep routine, out of whack. Shake shack sends their money back
Everyone work from home, Payday Protection Loans
Lebron misses Basketball, No one playing baseball
Sharp decline in homicides, children want to go outside
Ventilators, Flatten Curve, PPE is conserved
Hulu stream, Binge shows, Olympics a no-go
5G, Drinking Bleach, Corona Conspiracies
Retail execs and CEO, Founder of My Pillow
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Amazon, Instacart, Target, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart
Workers, Striking, Safe Conditions Lacking
Tom Hanks in Australia, US leaders failure
High Stress, Order In, Vaccine tests could begin
Twelve Hundred Dollar Checks, Second wave that could be next.
It's just the start of May, Twenty-Twenty go away!
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Kim Jong Un could be dead, maybe he just stayed in bed
New York, morgues short, telehealth, no court
Bacon shortage, grocery lines, empty on the airlines
Higher death tolls in Iran, pull troops from Afghanistan
Five to ten percent have died, healthcare workers suicide
Massive debts, dying vets, layoffs, Bernie quits
Cruise ships can't return to port, China's close to martial law
States are forced to bidding wars, I can't take it anymore!
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Need a vaccine done
This just can't go on, and on, and on, and on.
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Not horrific, loss of smell, We’re in Quarantine
Tony Fauci, Social Distance, No one making television
Testing great in South Korea, It’s Covid-19.
Cases surge, Wuhan, homemade masks, close salons,
Brady to Tampa Bay, left Boston on St. Patrick's Day
Working on a vaccine, Britain's PM quarantined,
Paper Towels, Sanitizer, Toilet Paper, Doomsday
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Remote learning, Zoom to teach, Florida won't close the beach
Rockefeller Center closed with the whole block
Clorox all gone, Trump's Pressers drag on
Global stocks fall, so much time to walk
Binge wine, hands clean, no one watching their home team
Davy Crocket, Peter Pan, they’re all closed at Disneyland
Locked down Italy, singing from balconies
Tiger King, Closed Beijing, NHL is in a freeze
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Sleep routine, out of whack. Shake shack sends their money back
Everyone work from home, Payday Protection Loans
Lebron misses Basketball, No one playing baseball
Sharp decline in homicides, children want to go outside
Ventilators, Flatten Curve, PPE is conserved
Hulu stream, Binge shows, Olympics a no-go
5G, Drinking Bleach, Corona Conspiracies
Retail execs and CEO, Founder of My Pillow
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Amazon, Instacart, Target, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart
Workers, Striking, Safe Conditions Lacking
Tom Hanks in Australia, US leaders failure
High Stress, Order In, Vaccine tests could begin
Twelve Hundred Dollar Checks, Second wave that could be next.
It's just the start of May, Twenty-Twenty go away!
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
Kim Jong Un could be dead, maybe he just stayed in bed
New York, morgues short, telehealth, no court
Bacon shortage, grocery lines, empty on the airlines
Higher death tolls in Iran, pull troops from Afghanistan
Five to ten percent have died, healthcare workers suicide
Massive debts, dying vets, layoffs, Bernie quits
Cruise ships can't return to port, China's close to martial law
States are forced to bidding wars, I can't take it anymore!
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Need a vaccine done
This just can't go on, and on, and on, and on.
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
This is Coronavirus
Where your fever's burning
And your chest is hurting
This is Coronavirus
Please stay in your household
It's worse than just a cold
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We talk about the "Big Seven" -- Original Songs, that due to their length and/or complexity are markers of being a parody master. Among them are "The Major General's Song", "American Pie", "Wreck of the Edmund FitzGerald", "Blinded By The Light" ( complex rhyme scheme) ..... This OS should be included on that list. And you pulled it off, so, GREAT JOB
Thanks CML for drawing my attention to this: it's excellent, catches the surreal nature of the past couple of years perfectly
This young lady has an Instagram account which contains at least 40 other parodies. If you're reading this, Kim wed love to see more but do us one small little favor ... Dont swamp the site with a massive 12 song dump. As a one time phenomenon, that was OK. But going forward, break it up in smaller batches, no more than, say four at a time
My apologies on the song dump! I just discovered the site and was so excited I found a place to post/share parodies that wasn't one of my own social media accounts! I'll spread them out going forward!
We've seen that very psychology that you describe from other first timers who did exactly the same thing you did. So we're very understanding ;-D
What everyone has said above! You have (hopefully) already seen my other observations in comments, so all I will say about this one is that you have done a great job with a difficult OS. Keep it up!
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