Song Parodies -> Pun Away
| Original Song Title: | "Runaway" |
| Original Performer: | Del Shannon |
| Parody Song Title: | "Pun Away" |
| Parody Written by: | Michael Pacholek |
The creepy instrument heard in the second half of the song is a "musitron," not a "mellotron" as I previously said. It was played by Max Crook, who wrote "Runaway" with Del. Writing mainstream songs isn't easy. Writies parodies might SEEM to be easy, but every now and then I get a little bit writer-blocked, a total eclipse of the brain.
(guitar opens)
(piano added)
As I type along
I wonder
what went wrong
with this line
I put into this song?
And as I still type on
I think of
the jokes that were much better
I wrote when I was young.
I'm a-typing on this board.
Feel I'm going out of my gourd.
Wishing you would laugh with me
instead of at my misery.
And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
why
a-why-why-why-why-why
does humor stray
and I wonder
why I can't play.
I threw that pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
(musitron bridge)
I'm a-typing on this board.
Feel I'm going out of my gourd.
Wishing you would laugh with me
instead of at my misery.
And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
why
a-why-why-why-why-why
does humor stray
and I wonder
why I can't play.
I threw that pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
(repeat 'til fade)
(piano added)
As I type along
I wonder
what went wrong
with this line
I put into this song?
And as I still type on
I think of
the jokes that were much better
I wrote when I was young.
I'm a-typing on this board.
Feel I'm going out of my gourd.
Wishing you would laugh with me
instead of at my misery.
And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
why
a-why-why-why-why-why
does humor stray
and I wonder
why I can't play.
I threw that pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
(musitron bridge)
I'm a-typing on this board.
Feel I'm going out of my gourd.
Wishing you would laugh with me
instead of at my misery.
And I wonder
I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder
why
a-why-why-why-why-why
does humor stray
and I wonder
why I can't play.
I threw that pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
That pun, pun, pun, pun, pun away.
(repeat 'til fade)
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Writer's block. Get out and go for a walk! Pretty punny.
muses are fickle things
Tell me about it, Alvin. Especially the Elfin kind.
Punny
I'm a punster, clear and plain
Some so rotten that they cause folks pain
What will this one bring for me?
Laughs lots, or misery?
'Cause I'm punster
I'm pun-pun-pun-pun-punster
Why?
Wry, wry, wry, wry, wry
With words, a way
And I wonder:
Oh, will it "play"?
Um, could I borrow some of that writer's block? .... I have the opposite problem lol. 555 My rotten pun today
A -pun, pun, pun, pun, pun today.
Some so rotten that they cause folks pain
What will this one bring for me?
Laughs lots, or misery?
'Cause I'm punster
I'm pun-pun-pun-pun-punster
Why?
Wry, wry, wry, wry, wry
With words, a way
And I wonder:
Oh, will it "play"?
Um, could I borrow some of that writer's block? .... I have the opposite problem lol. 555 My rotten pun today
A -pun, pun, pun, pun, pun today.
Darn it, flippers on the keyboard again... The end comment got smooshed into the spin-off. The last two lines of spin-off were:
My rotten pun today
A -pun, pun, pun, pun, pun today.
My rotten pun today
A -pun, pun, pun, pun, pun today.
Don't feel blue Michael, we still love you. Oh, wait! You like being 'blue' (as opposed to red that is... ;-)
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