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Song Parodies -> "The Demonstration in Washington"
Original Song Title:
"The Battle of New Orleans"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Johnny Horton
Parody Song Title:
"The Demonstration in Washington"
Parody Written by:
Jay Dyck
The Lyrics
In the sixties, firehoses and locked restrooms were used to quell civil rights demonstrations.
Well, in nineteen sixty-two we had a little fling.
We all went up to Washington with Martin Luther King.
We took a lot of colored folk. We marched "em up in lines,
And when we got to Washington we picketed with signs.
(chorus)
They closed the heads, but the critters kept a'comin.
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago.
They kept them closed and they began to runnin'
Back to Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.
Ol' Martin said we could take "em by surprise
If we didn't stage a sit-in till we looked "em in the eyes.
But the marshals said that they really couldn't tell,
so they opened up the fire hose and really gave us well
(chorus)
Well, they run through the streets and they run through the alleys.
They run through the ghetto where a maggot wouldn't go.
They run so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Back to Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.
We all went up to Washington with Martin Luther King.
We took a lot of colored folk. We marched "em up in lines,
And when we got to Washington we picketed with signs.
(chorus)
They closed the heads, but the critters kept a'comin.
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago.
They kept them closed and they began to runnin'
Back to Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.
Ol' Martin said we could take "em by surprise
If we didn't stage a sit-in till we looked "em in the eyes.
But the marshals said that they really couldn't tell,
so they opened up the fire hose and really gave us well
(chorus)
Well, they run through the streets and they run through the alleys.
They run through the ghetto where a maggot wouldn't go.
They run so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Back to Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.
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I must admit, I didn't know about the locked restrooms. Wasn't the March On Washington in nineteen sixty-THREE?
Jay I think there may be a verse or two missing, but what you have here rhymes well and is well said, so I gave it 5's.
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