October 26, 2011 - 2:33 pm
—apologies to George Douglas & George David Weiss
I see hippies sleeping in the mess that they void
Risking the plague, cholera and typhoid
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I see shell-shocked faces—perhaps they’re not stoned
But just added up all of their student loans
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
People protesting against corporate greed
Rely on those companies for all that they need
But they remain impervious, as you can see
To this basic and fundamental irony
I see riot police, brandishing their batons
Telling the “occupiers” they must move on
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Absolutely wonderful verse!
I see smell-shocked feces…
We really need to get a good old-school singer to record a nice slow version of this, and then play it in the background of a video with a slideshow of appropriate Occupy scenery, illustrative of the lyrics. I smell YouTube smash.
I see poo… tampons, too…
Hippy drums… Smelly bums…
And I think to myself…
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww…………
Almost there…Let’s keep refining it to make the meter match even more closely:
I see pee and poo,
used tampons too,
Hippie drums,
smelly bums.
And I think to myself,
“I’m about to hurl.”
LOL!
I love this monkey’s lyrics!