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Umm, okay, so I wrote two new song parodies, neither of which are the ones I intended to write when I started this, but that's okay. I have a feeling the overlap of people who read my LJ, and people who are familiar with West Side Story, and people who are actually amused by my baseball song parodies, is really a very, very low number of people, but that's okay. I'm mostly just trying to get creative and write lots of songs, and later I'll pare them down.
The first one is about the day that Pedro Martinez actually LOST at Safeco a few weeks ago, except the setting is, of course, beforehand, where everyone is expressing their thoughts on what should happen that evening. The tune is the "Quintet/Rumble", movie version. I put it in [pre] tags because I'm not sure the best way to express the "these voices all overlap at the end, yo" part of it. I'm also not sure what the title of this would be. (Oh, for background, the catcher for the Mets that night was Mike Piazza and the pitcher/catcher for the Mariners was Ryan Franklin and Pat Borders.)
I really did intend to write "When you're a Met / you're a Met all the way / From the first hit you get / To your last time at Shea", but I couldn't really find a groove for the rest of the song, so...
( Quintet/Rumble )
The other song... well, I don't know what posessed me to come up with this one. It doesn't *quite* scan to the movie version, though I think it goes okay to the Broadway version. It's a little sillier. It's basically "Gee, Umpire Buckley" to the tune of "Gee, Officer Krupke". The veteran players are pretending to try to figure out what's wrong with Mike Morse, our rookie shortstop, and the rookies lament that the umpire is unfair to them.
( Gee, Umpire Buckley! )
Constructive criticism is actually welcomed, although I'm kind of expecting the comments, if any, to be "what kind of crack are you ON?"
The first one is about the day that Pedro Martinez actually LOST at Safeco a few weeks ago, except the setting is, of course, beforehand, where everyone is expressing their thoughts on what should happen that evening. The tune is the "Quintet/Rumble", movie version. I put it in [pre] tags because I'm not sure the best way to express the "these voices all overlap at the end, yo" part of it. I'm also not sure what the title of this would be. (Oh, for background, the catcher for the Mets that night was Mike Piazza and the pitcher/catcher for the Mariners was Ryan Franklin and Pat Borders.)
I really did intend to write "When you're a Met / you're a Met all the way / From the first hit you get / To your last time at Shea", but I couldn't really find a groove for the rest of the song, so...
( Quintet/Rumble )
The other song... well, I don't know what posessed me to come up with this one. It doesn't *quite* scan to the movie version, though I think it goes okay to the Broadway version. It's a little sillier. It's basically "Gee, Umpire Buckley" to the tune of "Gee, Officer Krupke". The veteran players are pretending to try to figure out what's wrong with Mike Morse, our rookie shortstop, and the rookies lament that the umpire is unfair to them.
( Gee, Umpire Buckley! )
Constructive criticism is actually welcomed, although I'm kind of expecting the comments, if any, to be "what kind of crack are you ON?"
