Last week I posted a parody of the Beatles’ song, Yesterday. Well, I decided to make it into a video:
(Click here if you don’t see the video below)
Now do you see why I usually sing with a vocoder instead of with my natural voice? ;) And, yes, I was trying to look and act a bit silly in the video – it was not supposed to be serious at all!
I tweaked my original parody a little, but not much. Here is what I sang: Continue reading
Yesterday
The Covid Virus seemed so far away
Now it looks as if it is here to stay
Oh, I believe in Yesterday
Suddenly
I’m locked inside instead of free
There’s a facemask hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why I had to hide, locked inside, I couldn’t say
I coughed, is something wrong?!??! Now I long for yesterday!
Yesterday
Meeting friends was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why I had to hide, locked inside, I couldn’t say
I coughed, Something’s wrong!!!! Now I long for yesterday!
Yesterday
Meeting friends was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
MM mm mm mm mm mm
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This was written for Chelsea Owen’s Terrible Poetry Contest. I typically just post in the comments on here site, but I though some of you may want a laugh :) If you didn’t guess, the idea was to a parody of a classic song and make it about Covid-19. I may try to play-sing this later ;)
I hope you enjoyed!
Last week I participated in Chelsea Owens’ Terrible Poetry Contest. I typically use the comment section on the contest page to post the poem, since I don’t want to subject people to “terrible” if they don’t want it, but I did have have some suggestions (like Violet Lentz) that I post this one – Some of you out there may know exactly where this is coming from ;)
The challenge in last week’s Terrible Poetry Contest was to write a parody of a famous poem. I chose Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”…. Continue reading
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