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Song Parodies -> "Surprise from Benito"

Original Song Title:

"I Put a Spell on You"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Parody Song Title:

"Surprise from Benito"

Parody Written by:

Robert D. Arndt Jr.

The Lyrics

A very weird but true story of the development of Magnetic Wave technology starting in Italy in the mid-1930s. In June 1936 Mrs. Mussolini ( Donna Rachele) told her husband Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, that she was going to travel along the Rome-Ostia Highway. Il Duce told her to expect a surprise if she traveled from 3:00-3:30 pm. She did and around 3:00 pm her entire convoy was abruptly halted by an unseen force. All car engines died and could not be restarted for 35 minutes. Perplexed, she inquired what happened when she got home. Il Duce explained that Marconi had developed a magnetic wave weapon that was testing! The Germans, of course, knew everything that the Italians were working on and a company called ELEMAG from Hildesheim made the German perfected machine called the Motorstoppmittel (lit: to make a motor stop) MW weapon that was used in WW2 in Frankfurt and at Jonastal S.III in 1945. At Frankfurt, two P-38s were sent to recon the strange towers on two hills. Lt. Hitt got to within miles at 17,000 ft and suddenly his engines were running rough and he lost his instrumentation with the gyro compass spinning 360o rapidly. He was forced to turn back and get out of range. The second P-38 approached from another side and also started to experience the same thing. The towers could be seen but not approached close enough to target them. They were several stories tall and surrounded by poles that mounted strange pear-shape devices up top. Another MW weapon was located at Jonastal S.III where the world's largest underground facility and second Fuhrer bunker was being built by 18,000 slave laborers plus 6,000 SS engineers and guards. It was never attacked b/c the MW weapon in bunker #2 was operational up to 30,000 ft at 7 miles out. 53 attempts were made to recon and bomb it- all failed. The weapon is in several Allied Intel reports, especially in "An Evaluation of German Capabilities in 1945". What happened to these devices is a mystery. Requests for information get the same response: No File Found. Same for the "Foo Fighter" electrostatic weapons and engine-combusting "Blue Gas" used by the lone Kugelblitz German disc fighter that downed several B-24s (the US claimed they were downed by German use of Flak gas artillery shells, derived from Austrian tech from 1936)!!!
Surprise from Benito
at right time

The wife had something to do
Rome travelin’
Plan unravelin’

Highway convoy stranded
Engines were shut down
Could not restart, sadly
Italian weapon test caused her frown

Surprise from Benito
at right time
Down time (35 minutes)

Yes, she fumed
Yes, she fumed
Yes, she fumed
Explanation was due
And she didn’t care
About security
MW proved true

Marconi
Surprise from Benito
at right time
(Magnetic Wave tech improved by Germany)



From Henry Stevens book "Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology" pg.171

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