Song Parodies -> I Took the Test (and the Test Won)

Original Song Title:	"I Fought The Law"
Original Performer:	The Clash

Parody Song Title:	"I Took the Test (and the Test Won)"
Parody Written by:	Charlie Decker

Inspired by an off the cuff comment I made to my friend on SAT day. The spiritual successor to my cult hit "Testing S.A.T."

Time is up, but I'm...not done!
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the test won!
I answered twenty but ...I got one
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the test won!

Took two in English and then one in Math
Guess that I passed none
Now I'll have to face my teacher's wrath
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the

Five blank circles have me...outdone!
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the test won!
I lost my future, screwed in the long run
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the test won!

Can't go to college and and it feels so bad
Guess my race is run
Just because I can't subtract or add
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the

I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the test won!
I took the test and the

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Kristof Robertson - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Very good parody....ya doofus! :-) 555

John Barry - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Having just completed a course at a local college and anxiously awaiting my grade, I can identify with this one, which made me laugh my class off. Very funny!

Paul Robinson - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Charlie, Been about 37 years since I took the SAT. Think I got about 1200+. Here's what I think about it now...'So What'? Congratulations, you did pass the parody writing part of the exam. 5's

Michael Pacholek - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Very good, but I had to dock you a point for doing the Clash's version instead of Bobby Fuller's, one of the greatest rock and roll recordings of all time.

Meriadoc - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Well, at least you can spell and puctuate. That's worth fives!

Melhi - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Great job!

Paul Robinson - June 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Geez, I didn't even NOTICE he didn't use Bobby Fuller's version. I don't know if I would have docked the score, but I would have personally been aghast. Charlie I guess you must be a bit younger than I...(54) - (Yeah, like who isn't !)

Charlie Decker - June 15, 2004 - Report this comment

Sorry, guys. I'm a bit younger than you, Paul (like 37 years younger). Also, I'd like to point out thtat the song is stretching the truth a little. I did well on the S.A.T, it's just that at the school I go to (a N.Y.C. private prep school), "doing well" is not quite good enough. Oh, well. Hooray for the Clash!

Serafina - June 15, 2004 - Report this comment

Very creative! It's been almost 12 years since I took the SAT; I did pretty well. Anyway, 5-5-5 is what I vote on this.

Michael Pacholek - June 15, 2004 - Report this comment

Uh, Merry... "At least you can spell and puctuate"? Or are you using a word that walks the censor's line here?

Meriadoc - June 15, 2004 - Report this comment

Egads! A plot! Those d*mned liberals stole my 'n' while my back was turned! ;-)

Paul Robinson - June 16, 2004 - Report this comment

Charlie - GEEZ-SUS! 17, huh? Damn, that means you were born roughly around 1987, TWENTY YEARS AFTER I WAS FREAKING SEVENTEEN!!! OH...where in the hell are my orthopedic shoes?

Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni) - June 16, 2004 - Report this comment

Oooh, what month were you born, Charles?

Charlie Decker - June 16, 2004 - Report this comment

December 1986. Year of the Tiger, baby!

Michael Pacholek - June 16, 2004 - Report this comment

Apparently we stole Merry's "A," too.

Charlie Decker - June 18, 2004 - Report this comment

I got the scores of the SAT II (the 2 tests that inspired this song) today. I really got the better of the Writing section. However, I'll give the Math IIC the victory by TKO.

Adagio - June 21, 2004 - Report this comment

(ABC) Good 5's

Johnny D - June 23, 2004 - Report this comment

(ABC) Whoever's original version it's based on, good job.

Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni) - June 23, 2004 - Report this comment

(ABCs) Dang, I'm a July 1987 Rabbit. I can relate well with this one, but it was too short for a vote in the round. 5-4-4

Charlie Decker - June 24, 2004 - Report this comment

Aww, raspberries :-(

Melhi - June 24, 2004 - Report this comment

abc -- I really liked this one and you were such a close second I'd say you were a half-a-hair-breadth's close for me in the contest. Top notch!

John Jenkins - June 25, 2004 - Report this comment

Very good parody. Like everybody else, I am not surprise that you did well on the Writing section and I suspect that your Math score was more than satisfactory.

Meriadoc - June 26, 2004 - Report this comment

(ABC) Spell and puctuante. Pucktuant. punkschew.... oh fliibbertygibbit! It was a good parody, even tho' I failed the test. ;-)

martha - June 27, 2004 - Report this comment

excellent lyrics......you surely sat the parody sats and won........ 5s

MysteryGoat - June 27, 2004 - Report this comment

Good song.

Spaff.com - June 27, 2004 - Report this comment

Hey - ever notice that the "Place Your Vote" form looks a lot like a standardized test? I used a #2 pencil and my answers are: E, E, E.

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Song Parodies -> I Took the Test (and the Test Won)

"I Fought The Law"

The Clash

"I Took the Test (and the Test Won)"

Charlie Decker

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