Are you ready, Keith? Stanley? Ted? Alright, fellas, let's go!
Oh kids benefit from Mozart Even if they think the dude’s a dweeb With “Twinkle Twinkle’s” words changed That guy could help you learn your ABC’s Oh I see a man with the flag sing the National Anthem In his eyes an incredible song But the bar on the corner’s where the poet and lawyer Named Francis Scott Key got that music from
Oh yeah, it was enlightening Everybody’s rewriting And the music they’re spoofing And they all starting new things Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And the plan of attack is give ‘em Bible facts With reworded tunes from barroom hits And the Salvation Army and dinosaurs like Barney Use converted tunes that’s all our group did Borrowed bits of barroom hits, borrowed bits of barroom hits
Oh reaching out to unchurched Teaching those who occupy the pews If some may call us posers I really feel there’s nothing left to prove Said the monks in the black robes sang contrafactums Their praises ascend to the sky If the Lord’s in your corner, then everything’s purer He can cure you in the twinkling of an eye Oh yeah, if you think Wesley Would panic at Presley Then on next Christmas Eve, please Take a good look at “Greensleeves”
And the plan of attack is give ‘em Bible facts With reworded tunes from barroom hits And Weird Al has accordions we use a concordance When converting tunes with borrowed bits of barroom hits
Oh yeah, it was enlightening Everybody’s rewriting And the music they’re spoofing And they all starting new things Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And the plan of attack is give ‘em Bible facts With reworded tunes from barroom hits And the girl Fannie Crosby employed that quite a lot She used converted tunes that’s all our group did Borrowed bits of barroom hits Borrowed bits of barroom hits
Let’s fix the barroom hits, let’s fix the barroom hits Let’s fix the barroom hits Yeah, fix the barroom hits
