(SITTIN' ON HER) BUM AT THE PLAY - Parody of Dock on the Bay | David Cohen & Don Caron

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's characteristically un-leaderly public behavior spilled over into the local news when she attended a performance of Beetlejuice at a theater in downtown Denver. At first she denied it all but then it turned out there were security cameras catching every detail from every angle. So why not create a soundtrack for it? We did. Lyrics are by David Cohen. Performance is by Don Caron Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender SUPPORT Visit https://parodyproject.com/supportus CONTRIBUTE to the PROJECT BTC:              33W8cvkCKupG77ChtTFXeAFmEBCaLcjsBJ ETH:    0x1f36edE7A4F06830D0e3d675776607790a2ce636  SHOP Parody Project Store: https://parodyproject.com/shop PATRONAGE To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/parodyproject MAILING LIST (Never Shared) https://parodyproject.com/subscribe/ LYRICS for Bum at the Play David Cohen Sittin' havin’ too much fun She was vapin’ when the show begun Hearin’ complaints roll in She just huffed and puffed away again, yeah She’s sittin' on her bum at the play Not listenin’ to a thing they say, ooh Just sittin' on her bum at the play Makin' time She left her home with a “new beau” Headed for the Denver play Sportin’ some store-bought cleavage Puttin’ everything she’s got on display So, she’s just a sittin’ on her bum at the play People wishin’ that she’d go away, ooh Sittin' on her bum at the play Makin' time Looks like nothing’s gonna change Everything she does seems inane She’ll never do what civil people try to do So I guess she’ll remain the same, Gropin' with her hand in his zone As her “new beau” won’t leave her alone They didn’t really have to roam Just to act like they’re at home Now, they’re asking her to please leave the play While she’s hitchin’ up her dress to stay, ooh yeah Flippin’ them off on the way Sleazy Slime ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SONG "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. Redding recorded it twice in 1967, including just three days before his death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. It was released on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous #1 single in the US. It reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart. While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Redding had grown in popularity and was inundated with fans at his hotel in San Francisco. Rock concert impresario Bill Graham offered him a respite, staying at his houseboat at Waldo Point Harbor in Sausalito, California. It was there where Redding started writing the lines, "Sittin’ in the morning sun, I'll be sittin’ when the evening comes” and the song's first verse, under the abbreviated title "Dock of the Bay”. He had completed his famed performance at the Monterey Pop Festival just weeks earlier. While touring in support of the albums King & Queen (a collaboration with vocalist Carla Thomas) and Live in Europe, he continued writing lines for the song on napkins and hotel paper. That November, he joined Cropper at the Stax recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where they completed and recorded it. In a September 1990 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Cropper said: "Otis was one of those [guys] who had 100 ideas. [...] He had been in San Francisco doing The Fillmore. And the story that I got, he was renting boathouse, or stayed at a boathouse or something, and that's where he got the idea of the ships coming in the bay there. And that's about all he had: "I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again." I just took that... and I finished the lyrics. If you listen to the songs I collaborated with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him. [...] Otis didn't really write about himself but I did. Songs like "Mr. Pitiful," "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)"; they were about Otis and Otis' life. "Dock of the Bay" was exactly that: "I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay" was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform. The song features a whistled melody heard before it fades out; it is unclear who performed it. Some sources claim Sam Taylor, a guitarist/bandleader for Redding during the 1960s, overdubbed Redding's original, weaker whistle. Cropper, however, insists that Redding's original whistle was used. Redding continued touring after the sessions. On December 10, his chartered plane crashed into Lake Monona outside Madison, Wisconsin, killing him and six others. After Redding's death, Cropper mixed "Dock of the Bay" at Stax Studios. He added the sound of seagulls and crashing waves, as Redding had requested, recalling the sounds he had heard staying on the houseboat.