Margaret Brent ES students write parodies, May 2018

Songs: God's Plan by Drake; Colors by the Haschack Sisters.

I had a great time at Margaret Brent ES writing parodies this month! They wrote great lyrics in only 3 class sessions, which is really short -- I was impressed. The fourth graders (seen in the photo warming up with my magnet songwriting challenge) wrote parodies about weather and natural disasters for one song, and the book The Birchbark House for the other. Thanks to Mr. Smith and Ms. Rogers for welcoming me in!

_____________


Survival parody of Colors by Ms Roger's class

Verse 1:
She’s blue
Some days she don’t feel like doing her chores
Then she’s red
Chopping down wood with all of her friends
Then she’s green
People might get jealous of what she thinks
But that’s her
She’s all of these things

Pre-chorus:
Omakayas is sad about
How Neewo got sick and died
But she found her inner strength
Say i-it, out lou-oud
Like a rainy day out of the clouds
She let her heart shine
Life didn’t get her down down down

Chorus:
It’s all in survival, survival survival
Survival with you, ooh ooh ooh
Smallpox is making it hard 
The whole winter through, ooh ooh ooh
All of it started with a little sneeze
And it turned out to be a whole disease
Survival, survival, survival
Survival with you, ooh-ooh, ah-ah

Verse 2:
Sometimes she works fields
Having hard shifts is really a risk
Trying to hunt food
Then Big Knife came, everything changed
Then they all got sick
Smallpox spread as fast as a fox
Neewo passed away
Ten Snow died the same
      
Pre-chorus:
Omakayas is sad about
How Neewo got sick and died
But she found her inner strength
Say i-it, out lou-oud
Like rainy day out of the clouds
She let her heart shine
Life didn’t get her down down down

Chorus:
It’s all in survival, survival survival
Survival with you, ooh ooh ooh
Smallpox is making it hard 
The whole winter through, ooh ooh ooh
All of it started with a little sneeze
And it turned out to be a whole disease
Survival, survival, survival
Survival with you, ooh-ooh, ah-ah


Bridge:  
Oh,Oh Omakayas its almost done
Got to get through this got to get through Biboon(Winter)
Just know Neewo is gonna be ok
Ten snows coming right his way, his way

Chorus:
It’s all in survival, survival survival
Survival with you, ooh ooh ooh
Smallpox is making it hard 
The whole winter through, ooh ooh ooh
All of it started with a little sneeze
And it turned out to be a whole disease
Survival, survival, survival
Survival with you, ooh-ooh, ah-ah

____________

Natural Disasters, parody of God’s Plan by Drake
[Intro]
They missing and missing and missing and missing
And missing on me

[Verse 1]
I’m just wind but everybody scared of me
When I hit your house all your stuff will hit the street
I come at any time so be prepared for me
Get in your car and drive down 83
I don’t wanna spin like a beyblade  
Flying through the air and smashed in a tree. 
Tornadoes spin around like they are free 
When a tornado hit it kills everybody.

[Chorus 1]
Natural (pause) Disaster
It’s a terrible disaster
You can run away faster
Did you hear the forecaster?
Earthquake coming to kill us 
You might fall into the earth’s crust 
All the shaking make the dust, ay

[Post-Chorus] 
And feel 
Feel me 
When I come around the city
they missing and missing and missing and missing
And missing on me
And feel 
Feel me 
When I come around the city 
they missing and missing and missing and missing
And missing on me
Yuh, ayy, ayy


[Verse 2]
Hurricane is coming so you better run hardly
I only love my basement and food I’m so sorry
Dangerous, I even got it tatted on me
Hurricanes are crashers to the party
Death chose me
Katrina was the killer back in 03, dog
Without water vapor there’d be no me
Imagine if I lived through it partly

[Chorus 2]

Hurricane (pause) hurricane

I can't stop it on my own

Someone watchin' the nadoes

I've started as a baby volcano, ayy,, ayy

Might go outside today., yeah, wait

I destroy every beach in the east

My destruction is complete,, yuh




[Post-Chorus]

And feel 
Feel me 
When I come around the city
they missing and missing and missing and missing
And missing on me
And feel 
Feel me 
When I come around the city 
they missing and missing and missing and missing
And missing on me
Yuh, ayy, ayy