The Brookline Parent: Let It Go, Let It Be (DVD Extras)

[mabfan]

So, this week's The Brookline Parent column, "Let It Go, Let It Be," might require a little explanation. Or it might not. But I shall explain here anyway. Consider this the DVD extras, as it were.

As anyone with kids is probably aware, and even many of us without kids, one of the biggest songs to hit the preschool and elementary school set is "Let It Go" from the Disney movie Frozen. I know I've heard Muffin and Squeaker singing it a lot, along with their friends, even though they haven't seen the movie enough times to have memorized the lyrics. Apparently, they hear it from their friends a lot, who then hear it from them…it's a cycle.

Anyway, I've been sometimes singing along, or at least the title, and I kept getting it mixed up with the tune for "Let It Be." I'd sing "Let it go" over and over to the tune for "Let It Be." Well, one thing led to another, and...

I committed parody.

So. Go click on The Brookline Parent: Let It Go, Let It Be. Enjoy the ear worm.

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. :-)

My chorus is learning a song called "A Most Unusual Day". I felt it was too relentlessly upbeat.

I give you: "A Jewish Unusual Day". (You can find approximations of the original lyrics in various places.)

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It’s a Jewish Unusual Day – A Parody

I woke up kvetching this morning,
Got out of the wrong side of bed. (Such a morning!)
I woke up kvetching this morning,
And worrying what was ahead. (Oy, my head.)

I took a good look at my son.
The oysvorf’s the laziest bum! (No good bum!)

It’s a most unfortunate day,
Feels like throwing my money away,
And my son, such a bum, has the chutzpah to say,
“Can I have your car for the day?”

He’s the world’s least ambitious guy,
Got no job, and he won’t even try.
And he just wants to eat
And stay off of his feet,
And he won’t get married that way.

There are people hiring people,
There are jobs for him out there.
There are people hiring people,
And help wanteds and job fairs to spare (He don’t care!)

He says “Busy: don’t have the time”.
He is making my blood pressure climb,
If his Mom would agree
Then the mamzer would see
That there’s only one thing to say:

“You’re a bum: a bum and so,
Pack your things and go,
Find a new place to stay (Now, today!)”
Live like people, grown-up people,
Call your friends; go live with them (mooch from them!)
Live like people, employed people,
Don’t just loaf in your stained underwear (underwear!)

It’s a shame his muti says “time” (“time, give him time”).
I’m still feeling my blood pressure climb, climb, climb!
And if he won’t behave in a more adult way,
I don’t care what mishpocha say (such oy vey7)
It’s a most unfortunate, last straw unbearable,
What an unfortunate day….

Not today! But some day! Get in the last word, some day!

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Okay, now let's hear the flipside -- a song about The Beatles to the tune of "Let It Go."