PARODY-LYRICS:
ORIGINAL SONG: " I Feel Pretty" written by Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim; performed by Carol Lawrence and cast of West-Side Story
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2013.
Some 30 of the posts on this site were originally presented on AmIRight. The premier site for posting parody song-lyrics, AmIRight has an archive of some 90,000 songs. Included among the songsmiths using the site are several prolific authors who have posted over a thousand parodies. A prodigious repertoire, a wide spectrum of themes and outstanding wordplay characterize the more than 4000 works of John Barry; his posting of over a dozen parodies of this original song in one week prompted my parodic homage on that site, modified and re-posted here.
I FEEL WITLESS
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I read postings,
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Royal roastings,
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And so many on the same base-song,
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Cunning toastings,
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And I'm tempted to spoof a-a-a-long.
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West Side Story -
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So ear-wormy!
G+ C G+ C Am7 Lennie's melodies swarm in one's head ;
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A spoof-zombie -
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I'd keep satirizing when I'm dead.
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See that list of spoofs after searching there.
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Who's that prodigious J.B.?
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Pacing's sure to please,
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| Natalie Wood, in the well-loved movie version |
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Subjects sometimes sleaze,
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Hyper-parodies !!!!
Do our habits not seem hebephrenic?
I refer you to my precious wife.
She'll inform you the minute you ask her:
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She'll advise us to consider getting a life.
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I'll confess it;
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You might guess it -
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Novice, "Giorgio"'s a name I've assumed,
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And "Coniglio" -
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He's my nominee for nom-de-plume.
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I feel witless,
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Feeble, shiftless,
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Facing wit-lords, as one of life's twits;
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Which is odd,
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With my surname ending in "..witz"
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