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Song Parodies -> "Tern Tern Tern"
Original Song Title:
"Turn Turn Turn"
(MP3)Original Performer:
The Byrds
Parody Song Title:
"Tern Tern Tern"
Parody Written by:
Merry & Pippin
The Lyrics
On every wing tern, tern, tern
There on the seas a tern, tern, tern
And a line of lively porpoise (about seven)
Divine pel-i-cans, so fine they fly
Shy com-orants, they dive so deep
And grimy gulls, so high they squeal
In sky on draft, up flies a grebe
On every wing tern, tern, tern
There with some seas'ning tern, tern, tern
And a line of lively porpoise (now eleven)
I've pans to fill up, with prime blue her-on
Let's fry egrets, they're fine with corn
I've lime to baste osprey bones, and thyme to slather pones with feathers
On every wing tern, tern, tern
Pour on the seas'ning tern, tern, tern
And a slimy heavy porpoise, (and his brethren)
With chives in sauce, are nine gannet
Supine petrel, in flight (or grease)
In wine stew albatross, and fried with new grain - oh so tasty
On every wing tern, tern, tern
There in tureen a tern, tern, tern
In cook-steins are sev'ral porpoise (mixed with leaven)
Suis faim again - let's dine on skuas
Assign pen-guins, to brine-y dough
Saline-y puff-ins (fine souffle)
These rhymes are forced, I fear it's auk ward, eh?
There on the seas a tern, tern, tern
And a line of lively porpoise (about seven)
Divine pel-i-cans, so fine they fly
Shy com-orants, they dive so deep
And grimy gulls, so high they squeal
In sky on draft, up flies a grebe
On every wing tern, tern, tern
There with some seas'ning tern, tern, tern
And a line of lively porpoise (now eleven)
I've pans to fill up, with prime blue her-on
Let's fry egrets, they're fine with corn
I've lime to baste osprey bones, and thyme to slather pones with feathers
On every wing tern, tern, tern
Pour on the seas'ning tern, tern, tern
And a slimy heavy porpoise, (and his brethren)
With chives in sauce, are nine gannet
Supine petrel, in flight (or grease)
In wine stew albatross, and fried with new grain - oh so tasty
On every wing tern, tern, tern
There in tureen a tern, tern, tern
In cook-steins are sev'ral porpoise (mixed with leaven)
Suis faim again - let's dine on skuas
Assign pen-guins, to brine-y dough
Saline-y puff-ins (fine souffle)
These rhymes are forced, I fear it's auk ward, eh?
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Hope I'm invited to dinner. Petrel in grease is right up my alley. I'm still lol typing this, guy and /or gal(s). Fantastic stuff.Super high 5's
a song, by the byrds....about the birds....most fowl ! .....which is to say brilliant...5s
Keeee-lever. Your parody have taken a tern for the better! :) 555
Did you hear about the butcher who traded some liverwurst for a seagull? He took a tern for the wurst......555
"auk ward" .... GRRROOOAAANNNN .... what have YOU two hobbits been Puffin', eh ?
Did you hear about why Doctor Frankenstein turned his car around 180 degrees and drove back to his lab? He suddenly thought a ewe-tern would be a great idea.
Did you hear about why Doctor Frankenstein turned his car around 180 degrees and drove back to his lab? He suddenly thought a ewe-tern would be a great idea.
Nice to see you hobbits back on the job! 555
We'd been wanting to take a tern with this one for a long time - but in the end we couldn't figure out anything better to do with the bryds than eat 'em! :-P Thanks everyone.
loved the last line M and P - and at the rate those porpoises are multiplying, how much longer does the human race have? - 555
LOL! Forced rhymes are funny when the parodist points it out, I think. Great exercise in bird-trivia. Porpoiseful writing. Although the cuisine might lead to gullstones. You've erned fives on this.
Tern it on!!! 5 x 3
Never has the bible been so much fun!!
Finger lickin' good and very easy to swallow. ;) Excellent M&P !!!
Turn Turn Turn is my fav. song ever and your Tern Tern Tern is even better. Muhahahahaha
Laugh it up
I thought your parody took a very cruel path and I didn't enjoy it at all. I'm into wildlife conservation and behavior.
You need to take a chill pill marilyn elias! It is *just* a parody....sigh... Beautiful job guys. Well done!
Hi Marilyn. Parody: "A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing". Sure, it may not have tickled your funny bone, but I would no more eat a skewered Tern than you would. But then again, sea-food makes me come out in hives ;-p
Arctic,Common,Least,Rosieate,Black,Fairy,Caspian,Royal,Elegant,tForsters, take your pick but Arctic Tern will fly pole to pole
A song about fowl and seafood. . . .yum, yum yum, but I would have hated to write a tern paper about the fowl-osophy behind this song. Okay, better put a tern-iquet on this and stop the flow (pun plasma, anybody?:) Well deserved 5's for you!
I suspect Fowl Play is involved
I suspect Fowl Play is involved
^^^^^^I'm so glad you instantly repeated your pun, STA, cause I just didn't catch it the first time I read it
This is really funny stuff ..... Which is why .. All the gulls in town (Gulls in town) .. gave it fives (gave it fives) .. all around
Arctic.Common,Roseiett,sandwich,black,least,elegant and royal as well as the Tern of the Century
Q. Why do little seabirds get along well A. Because one good tern deserves another
CORMORANT BE MY PARTY GULL,HE'S MY GULL,LEFT TERN,RIGHT TERN,A TERN FOR THE WORST,TERN STYLE,
Oh Frigate that's enough to gull you just tern right and just say Skuas Me while petrel this out '
what a buncha loons!
Lets just send our Grebe-Bencesand send them our Egrets and there is but Swan way to get there's don't forget to Duck and beware because the Pheasents are revolting and leave you to Quail
Cormorant and be my party Gull
Birds in Baseball Ron Curlew,Deon Sanderling and Tom McCaw
Companies run by Birds Myril Finch,Partridge Farms Duck-Tor Pepper,
Please just leave me a Loon
Q.What did the Seabird say when he dropped his fish? A.Frigate
Two well know movie critics SEAGULL and EGRET
Plover Come Back to me
I feel so Bittern about the whole thing so i am sending my Egrets
Brought back here due to recent comments - sorting through chaff - thanks CML! :)
Stork Raven Mad
Sparrow Agnew, The Loon Ranger, Starling Trek, Starling Trek the Nest Generation
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