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Jim CrocheSong Name | Comments & Submitter Name |
"You Don't Mess Around With Jim" | Title track from his 1972 album. - Floyd DeBarber |
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
"Working At McDonald's Blues" | "Working At The Car Wash Blues" | MOR |
"I'll Have To Say I Hate You In A Song" | "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" | Aaerni |
Song/Performer | Comment | Submitter Name |
"Time In A Bottle," | You can't place time inside a bottle | Alan the Ottoman |
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | |
"New York's My Home," Sammy Davis, Jr. | "New York's Not My Home," Jim Croce | |
"Who's Your Daddy?," Toby Keith | "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," Jim Croce | |
"Who's That Man?," Toby Keith | "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," Jim Croce | |
"Who Stole My Car?," DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince | "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Jim Croce | |
There are additional songs titles that answer other songs available. |
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
"Time in a Bottle" | "Karma in a Bottle" | Gregory Blake |
"Bd, Bad Leroy Brown" | "Downtown Vlad" | Gregory Blake |
"You Don't Mess Around With Jim" | "You Don't Mess Around With King" | PikaJoe |
"You Don't Mess Around With Jim" | "Yuge Coke Up The Snout O' Kim" | Auntie Trohl & Poo-Poo Pravda |
"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" | "The Corona Virus Blues" | Jeff "Dr Chordate" Moran |
"Bad Bad LeRoy Brown" | "Quappy About Her Queativity (1975 Quasi at the Quackadero satire)" | Pauly Gerard |
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" | "Bob Bob Mueller's Town" | The Offenders |
"Operator (That's not the way it feels)" | "Copulators (I am so envious)" | Lionel Mertens |
"Time In A Bottle" | "Time On A Phone Call" | Jonathan Spurlock |
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" | "Mad, Mad Charlie Brown" | Robert D.Arndt Jr. |
There are additional song parodies available. |
Song Name | Product | Submittor |
Photographs And Memories | Antiques store | Edward |
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
New York's Not My Home | Senator Hillary Clinton's Office | hec |
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
I Need a Lover John Mellencamp | Lover's Cross Jim Croce | I Need a Lover's Cross | Rock Maninoff |
Wasting My Time Default | Time In A Bottle Jim Croce | Wasting My Time In A Bottle | Stu L. Pigeon |
Love And Memories O.A.R. | Photographs And Memories Jim Croce | Love, Photographs And Memories | Donald Trumped-Up Charges |
Genie In A Bottle Christina Aguilera | Time In A Bottle Jim Croce | Genie's Time In A Bottle Impossible, as Croce died before Aguilera was born | Mister X |
There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. |
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Misheard Lyrics: Badder than ol' King Cole
Meaner than The Junkyard Dog. Original Lyrics: Badder than ol' King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog. | "I Got a Name"
Misheard Lyrics: But they can't shave me
Original Lyrics: But they can't change me
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"Time in a Bottle"
Misheard Lyrics: If I could save Tums in a bottle
Original Lyrics: If I could save time in a bottle
| "I Got a Name"
Misheard Lyrics: The whippoorwill and the phoebe's cry.
Original Lyrics: The whippoorwill and the babies cry.
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There are additional misheard lyrics available. |
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Misheard Lyrics: Badder than ol' King Cole
Meaner than The Junkyard Dog. Original Lyrics: Badder than ol' King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Barry I thought he was singing about ol king Cole and the pro wrestler The Junkyard Dog. |
There are additional misheard stories available. |
"Operator"
The Funny Lyrics: She's living in L.A.,
with my old ex-best friend Ray, I guy she said she knew well but sometimes hated. Why They're Funny: What could be more grating than seeing your lover run-off with your best friend, except perhaps her once having hated the guy? Jim is slicing the irony real thick here.
Submitted by: Cesare
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"Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
The Repetitive Lyrics: And it's bad bad,
Leroy Brown. The baddest man in the wole damned town Badder than old King Kong Meaner than a junkyard dog Why They're Repetitive: I don't know how many times he repeats this lyric in one stanza but once is enough.
Submitted by: Celeste
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"Operator"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: Give me the number if you can find it,
so I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine Why They're Nonsensical: This is a case where repeating the chorus throughout a song completely throws off the story. The first time he sings these lines, it makes complete sense. Then he sings them again after the operator gave him the number (hence he already knows she can find it). Finally he sings them again after declaring he no longer wants to make the call!
Submitted by: Michael S.
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"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
The Misrhymed Lyrics: Badder than an-ol' King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog. Why They're Misrhymed: How sad that Jim had to pass on before he could add the 'n' to 'dog'.
Submitted by: MOR
| "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
The Misrhymed Lyrics: Well, the two men took to fightin',
and when they pulled them from the floor, Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone. Why They're Misrhymed: I am dismayed that Croce couldn't have come up with a better effort to rhyme than 'floor' and gone.' Especially since he did so well with just about all the rest of his music...
Submitted by: Doug Montgomery
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"Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
The Dated Lyrics: He got a .32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe. Why They're Dated: If Leroy Brown stays in the bars these days he MIGHT be just fine; but security being what it is after 9-11, having a razor hidden in his shoe will only get him into more trouble than a jealous husband will give him!
Submitted by: Doug Montgomery
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"You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
The Lyrics: You don't tug on Superman's cape
Who They Mention: Superman
Submitted by: Noah William Johnsen
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"Rapid Roy (That Stock Car Boy)"
The Lyrics: But every Sunday afternoon, he is a dirt track demon
In a '57 Chevrolet Product Brand Name: Chevrolet
Submitted by: oldsongs
| "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
The Lyrics: He got a custom Continental
He got an El Dorado too He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun He got a razor in his shoe Product Brand Name: Cadillac El Dorado
Submitted by: FussBudget
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There are additional product lyrics available. |
"Operator"
Opening Lines: Operator, oh could you help me place this call?
Comments: Submitted by: MOR
| "Time In A Bottle"
Opening Lines: If I could save time in a bottle
Comments: Submitted by: Candy Welty
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"Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
The Lyrics: Baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong Why: There's no such word as BADDER or BADDEST. Everybody knows that the comparative of BAD is WORSE and the superlative of BAD is WORST.
Submitted by: Isac
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"New York's Not My Home"
The Lyrics: Though all the streets are crowded
There's somethin' strange about it I lived there 'bout a year and I never once felt at home I thought I'd make the big time I learned a lot of lessons awfully quick And now I'm tellin' you that they were not the nice kind It has been so long since I have felt fine That's the reason that I've gotta get outta here I'm so alone Don't you know that I gotta get outta here 'Cause New York's not my home. Why: A candid description of New York City, New York.
Submitted by: Not the Same Bob
| "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
The Lyrics: Well the south side of Chicago Is the baddest part of town And if you go down there You better just beware Of a man named Leroy Brown
Why: I'm a little surprised that no one had yet posted this classic hit from the summer of 1973 from the late great Jim Croce (who died far too young). Of course from the opening verse the setting for this song about Leroy Brown, that women called "treetop lover" and the men just got out of the way from, is in Chicago (Illinois).
Submitted by: Peter
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"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
The Lyrics: Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog. Why: The 1933 adventure movie "King Kong"
Submitted by: Bob
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