Happy day after Thanksgiving, the kickoff for the month-long shop fest punctuated at the end with what most of us still regard as a blessed holiday. My kids' behavior during the TV commercials is, well, exactly what my own was at their age. That's what the TV guys want them to do. Puh-leeze Mom and Dad (Repeat a zillion times for the next month).
It inspired me to parody a certain overplayed Christmas song with this little ditty I composed. I'll send one of our stickers to the first correct guesser with the title of the original song:
Puh-leeze Mom and Dad
Come here quickly, look at the TV
Can we get that?
I want a whole lot of toys for Christmas!
I want a whole lot of toys for Christmas!
I want a whole lot of toys for Christmas,
like they're showing in the ads!
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Update: I've altered a word in the first two lines to make it a closer match to the original. Is it a giveaway?
5 comments:
It looks a little like Ring Christmas Bells...but not quite. Hmmmm.
Carol of the Bells?
Carol of the Bells (Ring Christmas Bells) is a good guess, especially given its good fit on the first stanza, but no.
I pride myself on doing Logic Problems and Sudokus, to which this must be akin.
Then I started with your term "overplayed" as meaning they're commercialized and/or de-religionized.
Finally, I went through my own list of recently heard radio/tv squibs, and came up with....nada.
I'm sending this link on to some musician friends (tho they may not claim the prize, even if they're right.) Good challenge, Kevin.
>Paul said:
>Then I started with your term "overplayed" as meaning they're commercialized and/or de-religionized.
Don't read too much into my use of "overplayed". More accurately, I should have said "very well played in our local radio lineup at Christmastime", though I haven't heard it used in any ads. As another hint, it's a secular song.
I didn't think this would be such a stumper (but then again, I've been "peeking" at the answer from the beginning).
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