EXPLAIN HIS RATIONALE (Parody of) You Can Call Me Al | Don Caron / Linda Gower
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Just reiterating some things he said. And he did actually say them, just sayin'...
LYRICS to "EXPLAIN HIS RATIONALE"
(Written by Don Caron)
A man talks through his tweets
he says, "Why can't I use those weapons now?"
"Why can't we use nuclear weapons?"
"This makes my job so hard."
"If thousands die in a war
they're all gonna die over there."
"They're not gonna die here,
won't end up in our graveyard."
Tantrums and rages,
looking for a man-fight
far away from his Big White Door.
Bad advice from his sages,
posturing in the dead of night.
This kind of thing could get us into a war.
He deserves our disregard
And disregard him we all shall.
Call me mean and petty
but mean and petty don't explain his rationale.
A man talks through his tweets
he says, "I think I'm actually humble."
"I'm really very humble,
much more humble than you would understand."
"I have a very good brain."
"I have the steadiest hands."
"Only me can make us great
now that our greatness is gone, gone."
"I will build a great wall."
"Nobody builds walls better, as inexpensively."
for a song, song
"Mark my words!" "Believe me!"
"The beauty of me is that I'm very rich."
He deserves our disregard
And disregard him we all shall.
Call me mean and petty
but mean and petty might explain his rationale.
A man talks through his tweets, he says,
“I have tremendous respect for women.”
“And when you’re a star they let you do it.”
“You can do anything you want."
He is surrounded by the sound,
the sound
the warrant of women's anger
their revoked amelioration
He looks around, around
He sees gold in the architecture
He says, "Nobody reads the bible more than me!”
Hallelujah
Halleluiah
He deserves our disregard
And disregard him we all shall.
Call me mean and petty
but mean and petty just explains his rationale.
Copyright 2017 Parody Project
For another Parody on the Music of Simon & Garfunkel check out "Confounds the Science," a parody on Sound of Silence and The Tweeter, a parody on The Boxer.
History of the Original Song - You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon
Released in September 1986, "You Can Call Me Al" became Simon's biggest solo hit, reaching the top five in seven countries. (Wikipedia)
The question upmost on anyones's mind after listening to the original song (You Can Call Me Al), is who are Al and Betty? With questions like that, there isn't always an answer when discussing poetry or music, but in this case there is. In 1970 Paul Simon and his wife, Peggy Harper were hosting a party and the noted French avant-guarde composer, Pierre Boulez, was there as a guest of a guest. When leaving the party, Boulez referred to Paul as "Al" and Peggy as "Betty," an honest mistake due to the language barrier. Leave it to Paul Simon to turn that faux-pas into the chorus on a Grammy-winning song. You Can Call Me Al was the lead single from the Paul Simon album "Graceland," which won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1988.
In his journeys to record Graceland, Simon went to South Africa, which in those years was in the throes of Apartheid. A boycott was being enforced which restricted blacks and whites from mingling. In order to work with the musicians he had gone to Africa to seek out, Simon had to break the boycott. He describes the song "You Can Call Me Al" as autobiographical, in that it is descriptive of his own journey to a new and strange land during what might have been his own mid-life crisis.
Paul Simon achieved is notoriety as a singer-songwriter in the mid 1960s when working with Art Garfunkel (Simon & Garfunkel). The Duo split up in 1971 at the pinnacle of their success. In an interview 45 years later, Art Garfunkel still blames that breakup on Paul Simon, at least by implication, if not directly. Garfunkel apparently saw absolutely no reason the duo should have parted ways. It is worth noting, however, that Paul Simon went on to create a phenomenal music career on his own while Art Garfunkel did not. In my opinion, this would imply that their was a discrepancy in creative power that Paul Simon may have found frustrating and stifling - just a personal observation. Garfunkel turned to acting and did release a few solo hits such as "All I Know."
While Simon and Garfunkel were together they won ten Grammy Awards and in 1990 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their last album together was nominated for Best International Album.
I`m making it a habit of starting my day listening to you and Randy instead of CNN. I need a cure for my depression,..... you are IT! Thank you for being here.
I like that . . . a lot!
Love, love all your work. Full of wit and humor. And the music and vocals. You are very talented, sir!
You guys have GOT to do an album!
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@@jystme2437 me too
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And the hits just keep coming...
Everytime you release a new video...I get an almost 3 minute vacation...
Keep it up...
I get more than 3 minutes because I rewind over and over
This is one of my favorites because you use so many direct quotes! Great work!
Awesome! Unbelievable I don't believe what bbn I see. You are great, I cannot do this, just BRILLIANT!
Love you! You are a breath of fresh air in the midst of a hell of a lot of pollution!
And another well conceived and executed offering.you need to become a household name....I am sharing your work with wild abandon, and I do hope you make aCD. This needs to go down for posterity.
I agree! You rock!
BTW Call Me Al is one of my favorite Paul Simon songs!! I used to play the record over and over!!
Fricking awesome. Absolute genius. No hyperbole, this is as perfect as parody can get!
Sharing...sharing... constantly sharing...facebook, twitter...email...can't keep the genius to myself..can't keep the brilliance to my..self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your enthusiasm!
I second the suggestion for a CD! And, alas, this "topical" song is still supremely relevant three years later. Besides being highly enjoyable, collection of these parodies centered on t'Rump could serve as a kind of time capsule, too, for anyone who didn't live through these years.
This is so awesome, I have listened to all of your work, and can't wit for more. keep em comin.
Loved it!
Tho I wanted to see the trumpet part, lol
Your project is great fun. As a bonus, you will all be regarded by history as heros of the resistance...:)
LOVE it!
Great!!
Its all come to pass. Its perfect.
I'm a deplorable, but your parodies are so damned good!
Thanks Mark, I obviously didn't vote for Trump and never would but I might be a deplorable too because I certainly didn't vote for Clinton.
@@ParodyProject So you are a non-Trump fan conservative? Or do you share your political leaning.
OMG! I love this. 💗💓💞💖💘💕❣️🖤💜❤️🧡💚💙
jajaja... great! Congratulations!
You are brilliant!
"He deserves our disregard and disregard him we all shall..." wonderful. I don't think it gets any better than this.
Still brilliant. Showed on my feed today it is still brilliant lol thank you
I just saw the original with Paul Simon and Chevy Chase.about a month ago. Yall were AWESOME Love this upbeat rhythm and the lyrics.❤️❤️❤️
You are a talented genius!
So glad I finally found you! You make my day🎶🌟 ❤🌟🎶
Awe me even as I was already wowed! Your talent, lyrics and deliverance make quite a good combination. Keep on keeping on. Music speaks volume, eloquence, laughter, good politics and helps us laugh plus think at a good legal.
I had a playlist going while canning peaches and I must say it's really hard to believe I'm not listening to Paul Simon here. Impressive.
Cool thanks you . GOD Bless one and all be safe keep it going .
Song parody done so masterfully; great singing; and the Hofner bass at the end! My only complaint was the wonderful Paul Simon music ended too soon.
awesome.you got him pegged.
thank you , i very much enjoyed and will continue ,
Love this!
This is my favorite video play it at my funeral.
Love you more!
Somebody get this guy his own show!
Another awesome video
Perfect voice and lyrics, totally the best. I’m so sorry you have to sing about this horrific, pathological thing, that is not a human being.
That was some 'hot' bass playing at the end.
Just when I promised myself I'd shut up already......."Only me can make us great again". Bwaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa.. It gets me everytime so I figured I'd give it a shout out from Dee's I mean rockweedgirls channel-within-your-channel ;-). Hallelujah!
Good grief I laughed so hard that my dentures came out
Fantastic! Funniest and most dead-on parodies and Trump-zingers anywhere!
Wonder if he did one about lying Hillary?
Sound like Paul. Wow
I'm still not sure how many people are on screen in these videos.
95% of the videos - one person / the other 5% two people
So funny lol love it
*Parody Project* - you should do Paul's "The Boy in the Bubble"!
who are you, I've shared you with the world
Wow. I never saw any tweets with him calling himself humble. But he blocked MY caboose. My ex-husband was a nuclear physicist & I tried to tell him that the release of the kind of energy in nuclear weapons won't stay in one place but I guess I didn't know how to better explain it because he ignored me. Then he blocked me when I said Putin is nobody's friend & I was blocked from seeing his tweets until a federal judge ruled that he wasn't allowed to block tweets while he's acting as president. Now I see them again.
But my ex-husband said the amount of nuclear energy released within 3 seconds of one modern nuclear bomb exploding is more than all the energy contained in the weapons of WWII, including the amount of energy in the two bombs they dropped over Japan in 1945, which I think he called Fat Man & Little Boy. I almost died laughing at what they decided to call the two bombs dropped on Japan.
Hi Vicki, regarding the humble thing. He didn't tweet that, he actually said it out loud!
I would download your songs on iTunes in heartbeat! Have ever thought putting your songs on iTunes?
I would buy a t-shirt that said "Only me can make us great again" with a picture of your choice. I would, I swear. In fact, I'd make it worth your while. I think I need that t-shirt.
I'm a little surprised that there are only 29 dislikes.
You should do a COVID-19 Parody version of this Song
Sorry Don, Trump supporter here, but I do appreciate your talent, wit, and I love parodies. Even though I completely disagree with your lyrics, you are good. I'll be right back in 2020 voting Trump back in. He's the breath of fresh air my husband and I have been waiting for for a long time. Don't misunderstand, we don't blindly follow. We are educated and keenly aware politically. Back to One America News with Lou Dobbs, but you are good at what you do! You are going after the wrong person and groups of people, but clearly you don't see it that way. Too bad because I would love the parodies even more. Best wishes anyway. Sincerely, a Trumpette
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This was pretty cute.
If not also pretty worrisome.
Congratulations, you took something precious and dragged it into a world of hatred and political pessimism
Hey Brenna, i think you should pm/dm me on the face thingy..... and tell me who these guys are .... presh it .... mucho.
Thank God hes our president
Oh yeah he's humble alright, he recently said on TV when being interviewed by a black news anchorwoman that it's possible he's done more for blacks than any other president. He briefly allowed that maybe Lincoln did something for blacks too, but ya know, Lincoln wasn't really all that after all so it's possible he, the Donald, just might trump ol Abe after all regarding who has done more for blacks. He's so darned humble he's gone so far around the curve that he's back at the start, zero, zilch so it only LOOKS like he hasn't actually helped that demographic at all! Dontcha hate when you're so good that you are mistaken for, or, not good?
The Bible is not my book.... anymore.
69th
Don I think you have a place in Biden's Cabinet.
North Korea is making peace... guess this is a parody after all
No.
And Donald Trump too
Hot garbage.
Disregard this...I shall.
Haha. Touché
What a joke MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA
No just no
Still waiting for your take on the Capitol insurrection????
MAGA
Fail
Enjoy the music.And I've learned something every time.I gotta go to google to find out what you're talking about