Oh yes! A parody where my vote will be perfectly appropriate!

Once in 4th grade some kids sang this

"Back when I was in elementary school, some kids used to sing this..."; same here. Taking another's work and posting it as your own in not a good thing, but I'll stop short of calling your parody half-plagiarised since a) there probably isn't a copyright on the DTH(WG) part and b) you acknowledged that you are not the original author of half this parody. I will say though that this song is three verses long, not two. If I were to rate you on the 1/3 of the song that you wrote, it would be a 222 at best, so I'm not voting here. Better luck next time.

This one is as old as Methusalah. Come up with an original idea.

Whaddaya mean plagiarized? This was a partial parody of a Christmas song that elementary school kids would sometimes sing, & had no definite origin. So, I don't really think it's "plagiarized" since it has no definite origin & because I elaborated a bit. (btw, I've always known Deck the Halls to have two verses. I'm not sure about that 3rd one).

Just because the author of something can't be traced doesn't mean that a work is not plagiarized. As my college professors used to say, if you heard it someplace else and don't remember where, footnote it that way. Isn't it better (and more challenging) to come up with your own ideas? I've never heard this before. However, if it has existed in some close form then I think the author should withdraw this or it should be taken down. Hey Red, plagiarism is not determined by whether or not something has been copyighted. One owns what they produce once a work is produced. Copyrighting gives you the added protection of not having to prove ownership, sets damages, etc.

All you say is true, but Red did say, " I'll stop short of calling your parody half-plagiarised...".

Agrim - you are correct and Red seems like an intelligent person. Red "stopped short of calling [your] parody half-plagiarised since a) there probably isn't a copyright" - copyright or not, it could still be plagiarism. There is an author (or several) on this site who can tell you that. I read where Robert J. Pagliaro had a parody plagiarized (copyright infringement) on a work that was not copyrighted. Nothing against you and nothing against Red here.

interesting

It's super cool and it is just what I was looking for. I will use it to make fun of my music teacherthat dont want to give us the lyrics!!!!!!

Thank you. I'm glad it fulfilled your need.

hmm, i have a song thats like this, just a little diffrent. ill post it if you want.

OMG!!! you are soooooooo famous at my school! someone heard someone sing your song and probally looked it up and sang it to his/her friends and passed it on. It kept up until it came to me, in other words, thank you for making up this song if you hadn't then i would have never known that Christmas didn't have to be so sourious (Sp?) and could be very funny!

Well, technically, the first half I ripped off from hearing my fellow classmates sing it. The second half is my own doing.

Lol I heard my friends sing this in Elementary too.. but not the second part. A third verse? I don't think so..