PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "Yellow Submarine", The Beatles 1966, with lead vocals by Ringo Starr.
U.S.S. Clamagore at Patriots Point (background: Arthur Ravenel Bridge, in fog) |
SATIRE COMPOSED: Dr G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2018.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Relic Submarines" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
[Giorgio's other satire lyrics substituted to Beatles' songs include "Vonnegut" (Imagine); "Saturday Night" (Yesterday); "Brennan's Tweet" (Let It Be); "Jake" (While My Guitar Gently Weeps)].
RELIC SUBMARINES
In the town where I’ve retired
A Memorial’s awfully near.
And it tells us of the time
When the Cold War engendered fear.
Sailors sailed, to keep us ‘safe’ --
Secret missions ‘neath the waves.
Soviet strike? Well we’d respond.
They could never make us slaves.
Nuclear power transformed the submarine --
Submerged months in between, with missile launch unseen.
Trident warheads, a payload that’s obscene,
A missile-launch machine, nuclear submarine.
No recourse, all mankind’s caught
In the path of the juggernaut.
So give Gor--bachev our thanks,
(nautical tune)
We all live near a nuclear submarine,
Missile-launch machine; we’re all trapped in between.
We all live with nuclear submarines.
Missile-launch machines blow Earth to smithereens.
Cold War’s thawed – a time of peace.
From a gruesome fate, we’re now released.
A Memorial down the street --
Tourists gripe about the summer heat.
We all live near a nuclear submarine,
Missile-launch machine; we’re all trapped in between.
Live or die with nuclear submarines.
Missile-launch machines blow Earth to smithereens.
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