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Song Parodies -> "Big Tobacco"

Original Song Title:

"Desperado"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Eagles

Parody Song Title:

"Big Tobacco"

Parody Written by:

Lionel Mertens

The Lyrics

Big tobacco, why don't you re-think you're ethics
You've been down playing health risks for so long now
Oh, you're a smart bunch
You know your ads are misleading
The leaves y'all give treatments to
Have been your cash cow

When some think of pin up poster girls
Some think of Betty Grable
You know the Queen of legs was hooked on cigarettes
Now it's plain to see, some life dreams
Had been taken off her playbill
But you never show the lungs a smoker gets

Big tobacco, oh you ain't getting no dumber
Your gain and your plunder, are fairly well known
And thiefdoms oh, thiefdoms well, that's just dumb people coughing
Your poison is wafting through the rooms in their homes

Profit sheets have gold on the bottom line
The pie charts show how the funds have climbed
It hard to tell the black lines from the gray
They're using all their market pros
Aren't they cunning how their studies shows no trace

Big tobacco, why do you act so darn pompous?
Come down from your office, what is your game?
You maybe playing, but there's a playbook of virtues
You better let your conscience stir you
(You better let your conscience stir you)
You better let your conscience stir you before you get shamed

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CML - April 29, 2022 - Report this comment
This is a great song to parody, probably because there's what I consider a somewhat overwrought, slightly cheesy aspect to it. So that when you get a good parody concept and get the mechanics right (which you most certainly did), the effects are hilarious. There are many great parodies of this song in the archives
Arch Vile - April 29, 2022 - Report this comment
Great job on this one. I think this makes the perfect anti-smoking ad song, or several ads since this is longer than 30 seconds.
Peregrin - August 15, 2022 - Report this comment
Hi Lionel. I'll vote for that (and did!). Agree with all of CML's comments.

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