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ROCKYROAD CHILDREN (sing to "Rock and Roll Children")

Neither Chocolate nor mint, was the flavor on which they decided
Triple scoop on the go, on this night of their tooth decay
They were found with some cones, but they never did churn,
Just like slamming the freezer door...BANG!! YEAH!

How bad he'd end up, just from one junior cup,
but he needed more than vanilla
Their allowance would go, towards extra large cones,
saving up for a gallon
And they bought a big gun, held up Baskin-Robbin's, 
and demanded every pint...

Chorus:	Of Rocky Road ice cream! They're all alone
	Rocky Road Children! The Lust for cones,
	They wanted Roacky road!

They got brain-freeze headaches, on the night that they munched forever
Eating scoop after scoop, on the night with a sugar high
They were lost in freezers, not a cup left unturned,
The good humor man slammed the door...

Chorus: On Rocky Road Children! Eating all night...
	Rocky Road Children! Pint after pint...
	(Fade out...)

(NOTES: This was my first Dio parody. I think I got better as time went on. I revised this one a few times because I wanted to match the parody syllable-for-syllable with the original Dio song, which is something I always try to do now with my parodies now.)

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I COULD HAVE USED A CREAMER (sing to "I could have been a dreamer")

Add another sugar pack, feel like my head is gonna crack,
and when I see half&half, I roll eyes, yeah
I use lots of sugar, but everyone that I know, loves cream
Every one that I know, drinks Tea
(chorus)	I could have used a creamer, Instead of so much sugar
		I could have used a creamer, yeah
I hate coffee flavor, so I need to really make it sweet
I add sugar cubes 'til, I fly...Why?
Adding so much glucose, caffine and sugar's my brain
Let be grow my own sugar cane, forever
(chorus)	I could have used a creamer, instead of so much sugar
		I could have used a creamer, 'cause cream it adds flavor!
		I could have used a creamer, creamer, oh...
(solo)
In my cup are 12 packs, of sugar in my coffee once black
But is there an alternate, for sugar
I heard about Sweet-and-Low, I heard it killed a lab rat!
Black coffee tastes like dead cats! Dead cats? Now I see...
(chorus)	I could have used a creamer, I could have given it a try
		I could have used a creamer
		'cause cream don't give sugar highs!  (fade out...)

(NOTES: I had seen the original video for "Dreamer" on Mtv's Headbangers' Ball years ago, before I was really into Dio. It became one of those songs that I really liked, but didn't get the tape for years. As with this parody, I try to match some of the original words and phrases with what I write, rather than just have the new words rhyme in the same time. Here, "I heard about a RAINbow" becomes "I heard about Sweet-AND-Low".)

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THE FAST FOOD LINE (sing to "Last in Line")

It is twelve o'clock noon, 
time to grab some food, 
gonna drive right over to McDee's, yeah
Whether it's the Burger King, 
Jack-in-the-box, Wendy's
We will always...BARF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're off to McDee's! With only fifteen
   sucky minutes to eat!
But the indigestion grease 
   may last a life time
We're all heading to the john, 
   all this barf we didn't want
But the cooks come in 
   to fill their buckets up
We can't bitch or moan, 
   in the salad: I saw bones
We eat our crap and are on our merry way

Chorus:	We'll know for the first time,
	what they put inside french fries, at the Fast Food Line (2x)!
	
Driving to Taco Bell, it's a highway to hell
And the line for food is the same line to the can!
We could go elsewhere, where the beef don't have hair,
But our jobs with short lunch breaks are worth the pain!

Chorus: We'll find the beast sometime, That lurks in the apple pie,
	In the Fast Food line! Yeah, in the fast food line!
	Oh...(solo)
Yeah,
We'd point out the slime, but we never never never have time
We're heading back to work with stomach pains and vommit
We all have no better choice, Eating burger buns so moist
You can relieve yourself, but the only way to do is puke

Chorus: Someday we will die, From the Chocolate grease pork Rines
	In the fast food line!
	Oh...in the fast food line...See how we dine...
        In the fast food, in the fast food, in the fast food,
        In the fast food line! Oh...(fade)

NEWSGROUP SUPER-SPAM (sing to "Sunset Superman")

The net has a thousand groups
but he reads only the newsgroups where the spam can never be
Too much "1-900" lines,
And you log on in the morning, reading, screaming
Trying to tell them phone sex lines should not be on alt-sesame-street

Newsgroup Superspam, newsgroup superspam, newsgroup super spam.
Somebody start the flames,
and the spam will just get louder as it cloggs up the newsgroups.
"Get rich quick": how it gets lame
But when you read at the computer, the news goes slow.
Need this? Hell no!
No "get rich" schemes nor jew jokes belong on alt dot rock-n-roll
Newsgroup Superspam, newsgroup superspam...please no more newsgroup
superspam, newsgroup superspam...anybody can, receive superspam,
newsgroup superspam, newsgroup superspam....

(NOTES: That parody was written in protest of the "spam" that would come into alt.music.dio from time to time)

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BAKERY (sing to "Mystery")


Hey- can you feed me? Can you eat?
There's a smell from the edge of the town
Smell cake batter, cookies and some sweets
so child don't you frown

You know- After supper, should be dessert,
but I don't always follow that rule, no
And is the baker always fat? No, he just makes good food.

CHORUS:	 He's down at the bakery, making a pastery
         Good food at the bakery- Just for you to eat
         Always a bakery...

We are frosting, macrame`s
Making pies, flavor cream coconut
Cookies, eclaires, strudels and pies. Would you like a donut?

Follow taste buds, though you try,
There are health nuts invading you mind:
"Sweet tooth dinings can taste so good, but enlarge waist lines"

CHORUS

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EVIL PIES (a dieter's nightmare, sung to "Evil Eyes")

Pride in the diet, 
turn out the lights you'll see food anyway,
Jogging forever, they'll follow just when you exercise, 
and add weight to your tummy and your thighs...oh my!!

It's the call of the candy
the way ice cream's tempting to the big health nuts
It's tastes of such pleasure,
you promise yourself only one slice,
and then there does the diet you've tried twice!

PRE-CHORUS:
Oh do you really think I like the taste of that Sweet-N-Low
"Fat free" Yougurt tastes real? Not a chance!
I'm gonna crave the foods that diets do despise:

CHORUS:
I want EVIL PIES, evil pies, evil pies, evil pies...

Yes, evil pies! Mmmm...those pies...

Using the "stair-climb", trying to exercise your fat away.
Jogging forever, tastes follow wherever you can go

CHORUS
Evil pies, evil pies...chicken thighs, evil pies,
wear a thin disguise for what you eat...Evil Pies
Jogging forever, they'll follow forever, 
cause their evil pies, evil pies...(ad lib)

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MILD ONE (sing to "Wild One")

You say you've never eaten here before. Tacos are a first for you.
I must say, if you can't stand spicy food,
	that nothing's really safe to eat here
Start filling up your hard tortia shell. Go spoon some guacomole`
You should have read the label on the jar,
	'cause nothing's safe to eat just 'round here

(CHORUS) Smoke on the ceiling, flame in your mouth,
	 Chug tons of water but it won't go away, hey.
	 Waving your arm, trying to scream,
	 You yell for ice but no one can under stand you.
	 You really wished you chose the mild one!

Now that the flaming pain is finally gone, you chow down 12 burritos.
Not hot, but you're screwed just once again,
	'cause nothings safe to eat just 'round here.

(CHORUS) Food through your system, down your bowells,
	 Hands on your ass and running to the rest-room
	 You feel...Fire out your ass, smoke in your pants,
	 Didn't you ever hear about Mexican?
	 Now you have to go relive the WILD RUNS!!
	 Wild, wild runs...
(Solo)

(CHORUS) Flushing the toilet, fill it again
	 You're on T-Paper roll number 10-oh...
	 Fire trucks coming, flies are dropping,
	 call 911 but nobody will believe you...
	 You're always gonna have the wild runs! 

(NOTES: "Wild One" is one of my favorite Dio songs of all time, and I love mexican food. Ah...comedy bringing our favorite things together...)
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Jesus, Mary, and the Whole Wheat Toast (sing to "Jesus, Mary and the Holy Ghost")

Dark rye, Wonder white, popping from the toaster?

Coffee, black or white? What you gonna choose?

They say breakfast time, breakfast food, cereal with sugar,
Big bowl, cheerios!

Oh I, like, breakfast right: Milk fresh from the Dairy
Eating home, or, diner zones, If there's no bacon to fry

And then there, jumped in the air, pop-tarts hot from the toaster
Chocholate, frost it!

Now I sit me down to eat, pour my juice and eat away at
whole wheat raisin, whole wheat toast
They really hit the spot.

Wait some more, eat breakfast or
You might not get nutrients
Don't rush, eat you must
Watch him eat slow

Rush time, alarm chimes
Looking up at the clock
Hey, jerk! Late for work?

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BEERS TO BREW (sing to "Here's to You")

Beers to brew!
Beers to brew, beers for me!
Students drinking in their dorms, or at fraternities

All for fun, the belching calls, now you can pull my finger,
as we're pissing on bathroom walls, when you finally piss too high, 
hangovers always bring it down

You college student minors, look what we found,
that the room spins round. Make beers to brew!

Come on, raise your mug,  make some here:
using pasturation, we can purify the beer.

Pour the suds
Then chug the drink
Your parents paid tuition, you
Just puke right in the sink

Hey, you alcoholic students
Here we found
That they all fell down
So
Here's to me! Here's to you!

Beers to you, Beers to drink

Beers for you, Beers for me
Beer, school season
Oh beers to me, beers to you
Raise your mugs, here's to college!

(NOTES: Dio DID actually sing for a Budweiser commercial! I myself don't drink at all. I just never felt the need to.)

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OH McGYVER (sing to "holy diver")

Oh McGyver, working for the Pheonix found-a-tion,
Oh what gizmo haven't you done?
Hockey Player, chasing bad guys driving in your jeep
Oh how your plot's getting cheep

CHORUS: Every Wednesday, on USA.
	Oh McGyver! Yeah!

Grabbing onions, his pocket knife, and model glue
He'll make a time bomb for you...LOOK OUT!
Doesn't use guns, nor drinks a beer of any kind
But he's no wimp, you shall find

CHORUS: Every Wednesday, on USA...
	If at nuclear plants, or in the deepest wood,
	Or a communist land
        he'll kill the bad guys like he should...
Say,
Oh McGyver, now your famous show is off the air
You must find a job out there...NO! NO!
All employers- won't know "Rich Dean", 
   despite you fame
They'll only know your stage name.

Gotta get a job, get a job...yeah
Oh Mcgyver, you've retired
from the silver screen
Oh McGyver! Up for hire!
You have had your fame, but now you're screwed, oh McGyver
Allright, get a job, get a job, get a job! 
(fade out)

(NOTES: This was the first non-food parody I ever posted. It's more against typecasting than Richard Dean Anderson. Is that the "horn" sign he's giving with his hand? You be the judge.) Back to the parody list

CHICKEN OF THE SEA (sing to Black Sabbath's "Children of The Sea")

At a 12:30 meal, in a sandwich pub; 
We have each just ordered, a tuna club
Though they have Tuna fish, as for bread, there's much,
But there's no mayo, the final touch...

I would have chosen white, if they were out of rye,
But mayonaise has no substitute
If tuna's mayoless, then I will say "goodbye"
I won't settle for other food!

CHORUS: Oh they say there's no mayo
	I don't want ham and cheese
	Tuna sucks, without mayo
	I want chicken of the sea...oh...

We made a big complaint, as we starved, oh
Hiding in our corner of the room
Then we said "We don't want snacks, soups, salads or greens"
Threw away the cheese, salsa and beans

CHORUS: All we want is our tuna, and in that there must be
	One needs mayo and Tuna, to make Chicken of the Sea
(solo)
In another deli, on the edge of town
hunger in our belly, makes us really frown, on our lunch hour
They're not out of mayonaise, yet something is still wrong
Can't believe they say "Tuna's all gone"

CHORUS: All I wanted was tuna, I'll burn down the deli
	And I'll search for another, place with Chicken of the Sea

Take out! Buy Tuna buy the pound
Take out! My stomach's turning round and round and round
Eat up! The tuna's going bad, bad
Eat up! It's never never never been this sad.  

(NOTES: "Children of the Sea" is one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs ever. Now guess what also is one of my favorite foods?) Back to the parody list

After All (the Bread) (sing to Sabbath's "After all (the dead)"

How do you make loaves of bread
Flour and eggs we are beating
It has yeast (a thing that's not dead)
Bread's therefore germs we are eating, 
  they're eating me!

Where do they rinse out your glass?
It is just drying there, crusty?
When did they do dishes last?
The kitchen sink's piled high and dusty, 
  dirty plates....!

Oh there's scientific evidence of vermin in the kitchen
So waitress grab the spin & span, clean up, I'll stop my bitchin'!!

chorus:
Are we all haunted by the ghost- unsanitation
It just can't be, I've eaten here, at the greasy spoon.
Are these real peas and is this yellow water cook's piss?
I screamed, called for, the manager, he was a huge cockraoch...
SIX FEET TALL!! Six feet tall...

Had to blink and shake my head
"This thing's for real?" checking again
It says in a book I once read:
No, this is NOT a good omen: Giant bugs!!

Biological principles say nothing of such species
I'm gonna puke, the restaurant smells of rotten feces!

Chorus:
It can't be real, I must be in hallucination
The food's so bad, I'm gonna puke
point the way, oh please...TO THE STALLS!! To the stalls!!
Puking in the stalls....(fade)

(NOTES: OK, that last one is probably my weirdest. Not much of a consistant theme; it's mainly just imagery.)

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Pi (sing to Black Sabbath's "I")


Pi's a ratio, not a fraction
It's circumference, divided, by diameter
Pi's a number, not a dessert
The number is Pi, the number's NOT one!

Chorus: Pi, Pi, Pi!
	Endless decimals that follow a "3"

Yes Pi's a giant, Pi is usefull
Finding areas, arc lengths, sometimes a mass
Three-point-one-four (just a round off)
Memorize Pi? Don't try it. You'll never be done.

Chorus: Pi, Pi, Pi!
	Pi, it stands out alone. It's not just some food.
	Pi, Pi, Pi!
	Of the irrationals, the one with the most fame by far

Pi an angle, Pi galore!
Measured by "rad", much more than, that three-point-one-four
Greeks calculated, not with a smile
All together, they never, found a fraction for

chorus:	Pi, Pi, Pi
	All radians are multiples of 
	Pi, Pi,	Pi
	Don't use those degrees, use radians please
	Pi, Pi, Pi
	A greek letter alone, but Pi can shock you
	Pi, Pi, Pi
	computers calculate, but no one makes the end of it

No, No, No...
Pi a number, in my head, All computers could never,
never make the decimals end.


(NOTES: Well, it would be a food if it was "pie", but I do have a degree in Mathematical Sciences, and couldn't resist writing a math parody!) Back to the parody list

SNACK (sing to "Black")

I'm hungry in - between meals
All I hear is - stomach squeals
I cannot wait - till dinner
I am so starving

Here's what I do, after lunch I snack! Yeah!

Get yourself - some crackers
They make them just for snackers
Potato chips - fruit pieces
Satisfy your mouth

Peanut butter, make yourself a snack! Snack!

There are no cookies left? 
We'll walk down to the store, on the corner
(solo)

Snack! Yeah! Snack!

Back from the store - with tons of junk food
Indulge yourself - with junk food
No longer am - I hungry. Now I'm feeling stuffed.

Night time's foiled, dinner's spoiled, I have over snacked!

(NOTES: A new Dio album, a new set of parodies!)

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DOUBLE SUNDAE (the continuing saga of the Rocky Road Children! Sing to "Double Monday")

When just a cone, will not satisfy, sugar tooth
Whipped cream and fudge, sprinkles just for you
Sounds like- double Sundae! Mmmm!

Each time you think "This topping's the last"
You see more.
At ice cream bars, piling toppings galore
A real tall - double sundae!

Adding nuts and cherries, seven inch thick topping
Burried ice cream, double sundae

	Cold ice cream gives you headaces.
	Just when you were just feeling great.
	You now feel hyper (was it wise?)
	Now you're getting sugar highs

Great tooth decay, double sundae

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THIS IS YOUR LIFE (BRAND CEREAL)

(NOTES: I had hesitated about this one, because I wasn't sure how many people would remember the classic Life cereal commercials with "Mikey", and that American suburban myth about him eating poprock candy, drinking soda, and his head exploding. Oh well. "It's worth a shot" I said. I think it's a neat pun, how his "life" or "fame" was just doing the life cereal commercial, and how many still think of "Mikey likes it" when they think of life cereal. Life ceral was, at least to the public, Mikey's life!)
Who cares, what Mikey likes, was he ever picky?
They say, he ate pop rocks, dranks some soda, then he died

Suddenly one time, his face was no longer on the box

Celebrities, if Mike's famous, where is he now?
If his career was a vacuum, how it'd suck!

That was his life, his acting, age 4
See how the fame can't last forever
Where is he now? Has he a job, beyond the cereal?

Who cares who's on the box? Remember Mikey?

The spotlight has burned out
He never saw the new flavor-

Cinnamon Life! (New flavor? 'bout time!) Out of his world,
Mikey from Life.

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"STARBUCKS" (sing to Rainbow's "Starstruck")


Well it seems like the coffee shop's the hottest fad of the 90s
Swimming in cash- you know it's all a money making scam
If I'm away from home, I should not pay, you know-
Six bucks- for one cup!
I look around and see, a sign says "Tip us, please"
Not me- 'cause I see
An industry of pure rip-off: it only costs 
pennies to brew pots!

Chorus:
It's down at Starbucks, esspresso for four bucks
The thieves of Starbucks, gonna rob me clean
Places like Starbucks, high pricing, man, it sucks
Yeah

But why buy? I can brew- cups of coffee at home every dawn
There's much better things than coffee that I can blow my paycheck on
A small cappacino, is four fifty, you know
Too much, for one cup!
Their selling biscotti, eight dollars just for three
skinny, stale cookies!
poetry read by beatnicks
You like the 50s? Get those old prices back!

Chorus:
Behold the Starbucks, a cookie is two bucks
Beatnicks at Starbucks, reading poetry
Cup- less than a buck? I don't think you're in luck
Oh...

(solo)

repeat chorus

yeah!
Waiting in long lines, while the yuppies order their Latte`
I can see that I'm never ever gonna get wait-on today
Grabbed "TIPS" and cookie jars, and booked it for my car
no one looks, nor yells "crook!"

To piss them off some way, would really make my day,
hmm- what else, could I do?
I yelled the most insulting words:
I screamed very loud "Switch to instant Folger's!"

Chorus:
The folks at Starbucks, chase after me- I'm fucked!
People at Starbucks, shooting guns at me
They're throwing hot chunks, of beans at me, quick- duck!
This sucks!

Beatnicks from Starbucks, I'm not in such great luck
Posted at Starbucks- "WANTED" mugs of me
Escaping Starbucks, with jar of 60 bucks
Hey thanks, Starbucks, a grand
worth of biscotti, in my jar- all free!
Don't tell me I'm not fair- they've robbed me for years, yeah

Over-priced Starbucks! Crazy Starbucks! Starbucks!

(NOTES: Yeah, I like cappucino, but this whole money-making coffee house industry in the US is pissing me off. So I named a parody after one of these chains)
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