Parodies, puns and assorted doodles inspired by favored tunes

Skylark

Skylark 1941 Music by Hoagy Carmichael Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won’t you tell me where my love can be? Is there a meadow in the mist Where someone’s waiting to be kissed? Oh skylark Have you seen a valley...

Surrey With the Fringe on Top

Surrey With the Fringe on Top 1943 Music Richard Rodgers Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II When I take you out, tonight, with me, Honey, here’s the way it’s goin’ to be, You will set behind a team of snow white horses, In the slickest gig you ever see!...

Straighten Up and Fly Right

Straighten Up and Fly Right 1943 by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills “A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to shake that monkey off his back But the monkey turned around and said,...

Sun Goddess

Sun Goddess 1975 “Sun Goddess” is a single by jazz musician Ramsey Lewis featuring the band Earth, Wind & Fire” Shop Products Favorite Recordings Ramsey Lewis/Earth Wind &...

Summer Wind

Summer Wind “Summer Wind” is a 1965 song, originally released in Germany as “Der Sommerwind” and written by Heinz Meier and German language lyrics by Hans Bradtke. Johnny Mercer re-wrote the song into English The summer wind came blowin’...