Welcome to the Friday December 15 to Friday December 22 (publishing date) round of the One Week Notice challenge. My name is Peter, I'll be your host.

The core of One Week Notice is this: We all write parodies of the same original song - and then we post them on the same day! The song chosen ideally should be one that has not been already parodied on Amiright, and should also be of reasonable difficulty and length (Matthias is hosting a separate thread for general discussion about that part, see the messageboard and feel free to join in - or even better - sign up to host a round yourself!)

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=56105.0

As things have evolved we're working on a From Friday To Friday basis. The host picks an original song and posts about it in a new messageboard thread on the first friday (or after the Thursday update on Amiright's front page if that's more convenient) and those who want to participate have one week to create a parody of it. All those parodies of the same song are then submitted to go on the next week's Friday's publishing date on Amiright (barring acts of God/Site Mods).

This challenge is not a contest judging for quality. No points are awarded. Constructive criticism is encouraged, but we have no strict rule or requirement for everyone to even read each parody and/or leave comments. Obviously that's an important part of the whole thing, but you won't get bashed if life gets in your way. The whole thing is done in the spirit of flexing our parody writing "muscles" and to grow back the spirit of camaraderie within the Amiright community. The host of a round must provide a link to the original song's lyrics (or post them in his/her host post, like I'm doing here below), a link to a YouTube video of the song (or an equivalent thereof) and information about what year the song was first released (to allow for the submission form on Amiright).

With all that said, here's the brand new One Week Notice for Friday December 15 to Friday December 22.

You all liked my Canadian boogie rock pick last time so I'm going with that again, though an English band this time, and a more recent tune.

Song Title: "GoGoGo"
(Yes, I'm setting you all up to the temptation of the obvious seasonal title switch here, he-he!) ;)
Year  - 2013
Artist - Status Quo
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilZvuY7e1Dk

Turn your head around and look at me
Take a look and tell me what you see
This time we've been brought down to the wire
Can we keep it all together under fire

Go go go go get out of us here
Go go go go get out of us here
Ain't got time to hang around here no more
Go go go go get out of us here
Go go go go get out of us here
Ain't got time to hang around here for sure
No no no

Here we stand our backs against the wall
Only now could this be our last call
No time left to find out who still play
Oh how can we avoid the burning flame

Go go go go get out of us here
Go go go go get out of us here
Ain't got time to hang around here no more
Go go go go get out of us here
Go go go go get out of us here
Ain't got time to hang around here for sure

Our lifes just flashed before us
This ain't the way things were meant to end
No no no

Go go go go get out of us here
Go go go go get out of us here
Ain't got time to hang around here no more
Go go go go get out of us here
Go go go go get out of us here
Ain't got time to hang around here for sure
No no no

Status Quo is virtually unknown in America except for their psychedelic nugget "Pictures Of Matchstick Men", this oughta be fun.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... - Keanu Reeves tribute parody

No, No, No - Negative Nancy

Snow, snow, snow - Hate or Love cold weather

Bro, bro, bro - College frat boy tune

Glow, glow, glow - Swimming in toxic waste

Ho, ho, ho - Santa Claus... Duh!

D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! - Homer Simpson

Coke, Coke, Coke - Addicted to Coca Cola (Coke Throwback)

Choke, choke, choke - Darth Vader gets pissed off

Croak, croak, croak - Turned into a frog by a wicked witch

Rope, rope, rope - Wanna be cowboy or Wonder Woman tribute

Dope, dope, dope - Weed or a dopey guy

Tow, tow, tow - Tow truck driver or Anti-Tow Mater rant

Fold, fold, fold - Bad at cards OR hate folding laundry

We have a billion possibilities with this one...

Status Quo is virtually unknown in America except for their psychedelic nugget "Pictures Of Matchstick Men", this oughta be fun.


That's amazing given their 51 YEARS of pretty much constant active duty between first and last album (1962-2013)!

Anyway, this is a little gem with only ten lines outside the chorus. Kinda like ABBA's "My Mama Said" in that way. Shouldn't be too hard once you find a working theme. And four lines in every chorus ends with "here" - so there's always "beer" to fall back on if nothing else comes up. I partly picked it because it's short and because I figured you guys are all pretty busy this coming week. :)

Went with the obvious one you were talking about...
"Ho, Ho, Ho"
About a guy who utterly HATES his job as a mall santa...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mallsanta_9838.jpg

This sounds like the theme song to an action packed animated kids show

Went with the obvious one you were talking about...
"Ho, Ho, Ho"
About a guy who utterly HATES his job as a mall santa...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mallsanta_9838.jpg


The kids don't look to happy either! ;D

Mine has been submitted!

Mine has been submitted!


On my way!