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Song Parodies -> "Up In The Roof(We found this Loot)"

Original Song Title:

"Up On The Roof"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

The Drifters

Parody Song Title:

"Up In The Roof(We found this Loot)"

Parody Written by:

Paul Robinson

The Lyrics

A couple months ago there was a story in the news about these three guys who claimed to have found a whole bunch of "Old" money while digging in one of their backyards. Well, it turned out that they found it while working on someone's roof...so they ended up getting arrested for stealing it...the fun part is that these goof-balls would probably have gotten away with it...IF they hadn't been so anxious to tell their story(s) to the press. But...they had to grab that limelight...and were not smart enough to match up details with each other...three goof-balls - three different stories...OOPS! Cops got suspicious...and it was off to the "Handcuff Hilton" for these clowns...
Up in this roof this money we found
It was more than we'd ever hoped to make
Those "Fives" and "Tens" and "Twenty's" were bound
To take those clownish frowns off our face
In this roof we found all of this loot
We all went and got drunk; it was a hoot
Then the word got out

The Press and media came; it was neat
We made some bullsh*t up for them to eat (about the loot)
We told them we found it in the ground
We dug it up; the money that we found (I think we goofed)
Dug it up, yeah, right out of that hole
In one of our backyards; that's what we told
Not from up in that roof (not from that roof)

~ ~ ~ [sounds of media clamor and these goof-balls jabbering away excitedly to them} ~ ~ ~

Not bright; We guess that's now quite plain to see
The tales we told had no consistency

That was a telling goof

Now we look like a bunch of dumb clowns
And all because we bragged about that loot (that was a goof)
Our stories soon all became unwound
The cops found out the truth
They found the truth (about the loot)
We sure did goof (and they had proof)
Might go to jail, maybe (because we goofed)
Should have stayed mute, maybe (not too astute)

(Fade to video of them being walked away in handcuffs)

I guess we weren't bright (and now we're screwed)

~ ~ ~ [Sound of jail cell door clanging shut] ~ ~ ~

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alvin rhodes - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
great...love the background vocals...5s
John Barry - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
Topically funny.
Stuart McArthur - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
ha, yes, nothing funnier than the misfortunes of doofuses - it's your thread, Paul, so I know I can make as long a comment as I want here.....here in Australia last week, a bloke pulled into a gas station, thought he smelled a gas leak, and dutifully reported it to the cashier. The gas people arrived, with the police, and found nothing, so the police, with nothing else to do, tested him for alcohol, and he was double the limit. Then they checked his car and it was unroadworthy. So now he has no licence and no car, and there was no gas - just shows you've got to have cognitive scouts reporting in to the brain regularly about peripheral risks before you push ahead with a simple plan - as in this parody - btw 5s
Rick C - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
Great job here! Yes these guys were real idiots! This all happened about 25 miles away from where I live. It wasn't as if the press caught wind of the story somehow, THEY took the story to the press, talking about how they were going to use some of the money to promote some band! DUH!!!!! Oh yeah, 555.
Paul Robinson - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
Stuart - yes, dumb criminal stories are always fun...but the "Winner" still has to be (and this is a true story, too...I first read it in a book about former star Connie Hawkins and it also appears occasionally in the papers from time to time) Reggie Harding, a 7 foot tall basketball player in the late 1950's-60's era - he played with the Detroit Pistons a few years...but Reggie developed this little Heroin "problem" - so one day he decides to rob a LOCAL liquor store...and goes in with his little pistol - wearing one of those "Lone Ranger" type masks - SO...CLERK to REGGIE: "Why you robbin' me, Reggie?" REGGIE in reply: "It ain't me, man! It ain't me!" (Turtles song, too, BTW). Then Reggie cops a "dime" bag and retreats to his apartment to savor his score...but somehow, much to his surprise, the Police show up and bust him before he can even break out his favorite bent spoon ~ ~ ~
Jeff Reuben - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
I remember these morons =)
Paul Robinson - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
OOPS! "It Ain't Me, Babe" -- Dylan song first...Turtles covered it later...I guess I'm still bleary from alvin's "roofie"...
Michael Pacholek - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
The roof! The roof! The roof has three liars!
Paul Robinson - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
Maybe a Musical, Michael, "Morons on the Roof", starring these Three Stooges...thanks!
Adagio - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
LOL...I love 'dummy' stories too. 5's
Paul Robinson - June 17, 2005 - Report this comment
Thanks, Pat...'dummies' serve a number of fine purposes...

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