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Yakety Yak! (21st Century redux)
By andybyers
27 August 2007
With apologies to The Coasters. :)

Yakety Yak! (21st Century redux)

Just cast your vote in this machine
And it'll count it quick and clean
If things go wrong election night
This here machine'll make it right.
Yakety yak! Dimpled chad.

Saddam himself flew all the planes
That brought the towers down in flames
Then parachuted out of sight
FOXNews announced the other night.
Yakety yak! Don't learn jack.

Your job is goin' overseas
To strengthen our economy
If you go bankrupt 'cause of that
It's 'cause you're lazy and you're fat.
Yakety yak! Don't smoke crack.

Go join the Army or Marines
And visit folks in other scenes
And when you get into their town
Well you can kill them if they're brown.
Yakety yak! Let's attack.

The President has got a plan
To save world peace he'll bomb Iran
We'll make them a democracy
Just like Iraq or Afghanis.
Yakety yak! S'wrong with that?

Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak

Reviews

Written by Phil (6688 comments posted) 27th August 2007
Works for me. Don't know if I had the right tune, but the one in my head fitted fine. 
 
Good stuff. 
 
Phil.
Yep, agree with Phil
Written by Seagull (174 comments posted) 28th August 2007
Works for me too. The world needs more satirical songs! 
 
Keep up the good work. 
 
Cheers 
 
Chris

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3331 comments posted) 28th August 2007
There's a line in a song that says :- 
"Too many protest singers,not enough protest songs" 
Good to see someone adding to the quotient of protest songs. 
Worthy of the great Tom Lehrer, I thought 
cheers 
Jane

Written by jimbo (83 comments posted) 11th September 2007
Good idea, neatly executed. I'll be surprised if it doesn't inspire a rash of 'old tune, new lyrics' compositions. 
Hmmm, I wonder ...? 
Thanks for sharing your satirical prose, Andy. It's always great stuff. 
Cheers. 
 
Jim
Haha
Written by Dark_Angel (53 comments posted) 17th September 2007
I like it. I think I remember the tune... but the one I was singing it to was fine =] 
 
Great work!

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