NEW FILK: Just so today shouldn't be all gloom and sadness...

[thatcrazycajun]

Premiered earlier this month at Dragon*Con 2007, in my concert with Roberta Rogow:

I'M A TOAD AGAIN
Music: "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson
Parody Lyrics: MGL

I'm a toad again--
Pissed off the witch and now I'm a toad again;
Just hangin' out here on this lilypad, my friends...
I just can't believe I'm a toad again!

I'm a toad again,
Got caught someplace I should have never been;
Wondering if I'll ever be six-foot again--
I just can't believe I'm a toad again!

I'm a toad again;
It's the third time this year that hag's done this to me.
I could make new friends
If that French chef weren't out to barbecue me;
My future's gloomy...

'Cause I'm a toad again
Guess I won't ever be packin' a load again
Unless some cute princess will pity me and then
Kiss me back out of being a toad again!

I'm a toad again
And it's courting death for me to cross a highway;
At a river's bend
When there's 'gators' backs that I can hop the spry way
The game goes my way.

I'm a toad again;
My wife can't nag me when I'm a toad again
And tax collectors can't find me to seek amends --
Guess it's not so bad being a toad again;
Don't worry on account of me; I'm a toad again;
Leave that spell book on the shelf -- I'm a toad again!

Parody lyrics ©2007 by Matt G. Leger. Any use for profit requires prior written consent of all copyright holders. All other uses of lyrics freely permitted so long as this notice is retained unaltered.

Comments

[wordwitch.livejournal.com]

Now, THAT is a proper use of the Satire and Parody clause of the copyright law! Might I use it in class for that purpose?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Feel free; I'd be honored. (Wow.)

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Cute lyric! Mind if I pass it on to my amphibious SO?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Not at all. (He's a toad?)

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

I laughed hysterically when you sang it that night. I love this one.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

I personally have never quite understood why the original never caught on in filk circles. The sentiment of the lyrics is perfectly apt.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks for the much needed smile!

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you wrote it, so I won't have to.

[crystalgee.livejournal.com]

heheh thanks..

I needed something hoppy .ah..happy now.. :)

Still another song to learn. When will it ever end?

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks Matt. Now I have to learn a Willie Nelson tune. I swore I was done with country when I got out of my John Denver phase, but nooooooo... You have to go and not only write this masterpiece, but publish it where I can see it.

Really good man. Keep it up. ;-)

Re: Still another song to learn. When will it ever end?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Thanks loads for the kind words. Now who the heck are you? :-)

[crowatdusk.livejournal.com]

what a gift you have - this is delightful

[dsthomas.livejournal.com]

ROTFL. I love this! Now I'll be humming all day long! Thanks for the smiles