“This song parody was published in ‘Mad Magazine’”? Can you say that? You should not assume everyone here is old enough and sophisticated enough (like you and me and lots of others) to recognize that you have taken someone else’s full parody, NOT giving a word of acknowledgement and credit to a the brilliant parody creator at Mad Magazine, whose parody you cut and pasted here, changing the phrase “Yucca Plats” to “New York.” Given that Mad Magazine and its fabulous, inspired song parodies were created right in New York City makes your plagiarism of this wonderful parody of the “My Fair Lady” song, “The Street Where You Live” that much more of an oversight on your part.
To Freepers young enough to not have devoured Mad Magazine in its day and not committed every classic parody to memory: Here are the Mad Magazine parody’s lyrics, created in New York City, etched forever in a hallowed place in the memory of senior Freepers. Mad Magazine did hundreds of fabulous parodies over the years:
MAD’s LYRICS PARODYING MY FAIR LADY’s “On The Street Where You Live.”
“I have often walked down this street before
but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
now as I walk by I see rubble fly
boy it’s rough on the street where you live.
People stop and stare, they don’t bother me
I’ve got lead underwear, I’m safe as I can be
All the air is filled with radioactivity
and it’s worse on the street where you live.
And oh the frightening feeling
as the glow spreads over the land
that exposed to lightening feeling
as the Geiger counter clicks to beat the band.
There are no more trees they’ve been all knocked down
and you’ll never hear a bird in any part of town
see the plane draw near, let’s get out of here
Yucca Flats is no street where to live.”