Fat Bottomed Owls

I'm a great fan of musical commedy. I am always impressed by people who can say something funny and set it to music, or parody someone else's songs and make it funny. So people like Bill Bailey, Billy Connelly (early stuff) and Wierd Al are favourites of mine.

for example, here's Wierd Al parodying James Blunt.

I'm quite fond of messing round with songs to be funny. When the choir went on Tour to South Africa in 2001, a friend and I made up new lyrics for some of the songs we sang, for example highlighting the fact that it was always the same person we waited for wherever we went, or singing the praises of Steve the Techy Guy.

Recently, the choir has been singing the Monkees' song "I'm a believer", but more in the style of the end of Shrek. The musical director said that although it's not a "Christian song", it certaily can be appreciated in a Christian way. He then challenged us to come up with a secular song which couldn;t really be thought of as "Christian".
"Fat Bottomed-Girls" was one reply, to which he said:
"you could change it to owls, and make it about the Ark. You know, something like

Fat Bottomed Owls you make the Rocking Ark go round"

so I went away and had a think, and came up with this (copyright me, 2006)

Fat Bottomed Owls.

“Ohhhh won’t you get on board that boat
Ohhhh when the flood comes we’ll all float
Ohhhh spread the word to every one”
Fat Bottomed Owls you make the rockin’ Ark go round
Fat Bottomed Owls you make the rockin’ Ark go round

I was just a Billy goat, not the kind of guy to gloat
but I’m part of an amazing menagerie
On the Ark with good old Noah, we had nowhere else to go-ah
When those waters rose we floated out to sea

I was grazing with my flock, and we all got quite a shock
When those rains came down we didn’t know what to do
Well those owls flew overhead, and told us what the Lord had said
“Go see Noah, and get on board tu-whoo-by-tu-whoo”

“Ohhhh won’t you get on board that boat
Ohhhh when the flood comes we’ll all float
Ohhhh spread the word to every one”
Fat Bottomed Owls you make the rockin’ Ark go round
Fat Bottomed Owls you make the rockin’ Ark go round

Well we’ve got Lions, geese and Dogs
We’ve got elephants and frogs,
And there’s rules here against eating your shipmates
For we know we’ll all be saved if we all stay well behaved
And when the water’s gone we’ll go and repopulate..

“Ohhhh won’t you get on board that boat
Ohhhh when the flood comes we’ll all float
Ohhhh spread the word to every one”
Fat Bottomed Owls you make the rockin’ Ark go round
Fat Bottomed Owls you make the rockin’ Ark go round

Spread out your wings and fly….