Who got you into writing - all this clever parody?
Who were your wordsmith heroes from age three?
When you first heard their send-ups, who'd you want to be?
Who made you want to join this lunacy?

When you would sing the kid songs - did you make the words fun-ny?
Did you change "Old Smokey" to "spaghetti"?
An on their birthdays did you change the lines to "You
Look like a monkey and smell like one too"?

Oh did you roar with laughter when you heard your first Spike Jones?
Did you feel something in your funny bones?
Back in the fifties did Stan Freberg break your gloom
With "Day-O," "Great Pretender," and "Sh-Boom"?

Did Allan Sherman's Yiddish shtick just liven up your day?
He truly was a master - so Oy Vey!
Tom Lehrer was a genius, sometimes he got dark
When he'd go "Pois-ning Pigeons In The Park."

Tom skewered current events, attitudes and our mores
Mark Russell did it in more mod-rate ways
Capitol Steps raised satire to a shining art
We laughed as they upset the apple cart

Did you like country music? Then your fav-rite has to be
Homer and Jethro's rube insanity.
Pinkard and Bowden slay me - it's just in my blood,
Don't forget Ben Colder and Cleddus Judd.

Weird Al is now the standard, he's as sly as any fox.
I love when he plays rock on his squeeze box!
Now I have lots of heroes who bring me delight
It's all you good folks here on amiright!