LITTLE DUFFER BOY - Christmas Parody | Don Caron

SUBSCRIBE TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW VIDEO - Be sure to click the little bell to activate the notification. To help keep Parody Project alive and functioning, please visit https://parodyproject.com/supportus Parody Project Store: https://parodyproject.com/shop To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=8527316 BTW, if you didn't know, a Duffer is an incompetent or stupid person, especially an elderly one. That's what the dictionary says. You know who we're talking about. LYRICS TO LITTLE DUFFER BOY (Lyrics by Don Caron - Music: Czech Folksong) Come, he told them I’ll build you a wall To stop the planes - it'll be five thousand feet tall Because of tunnels it will have to be deep If you believe him then you're sound asleep counting the sheep What the bleep? Then he took a stick and whacked a white ball that above all He said I’ll give you all some tax relief a question comes to mind in disbelief turns out his tax break is for billionaires I have to ask you now does that seem fair pretending to care then going somewhere and golfing all that day and the next day too his skills are few "Repeal Obamacare" were his exact words Seems like a clever way to thin the herd It also frees up cash for billionaire friends a new disbursement of our dividends makes it all clear where it all ends But when you take some time to consider the source It’s par for the course Sometimes I wish he would golf all day Prob’ly wouldn’t do so much damage that way except we pay a lot whenever he goes exactly what the bill is nobody knows Quite a lot you gotta suppose It puts him where few golfers are well below par he’s well below par Far below par. some say sub-par BACKSTORY ON THE SOURCE MATERIAL The song was originally titled "Carol of the Drum" and was published by American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941, as based upon a traditional Czech carol. Davis's interest was in producing material for amateur and girls' choirs: Her manuscript is set as a chorale, in which the tune is in the soprano melody with alto harmony, tenor and bass parts producing the "drum rhythm" and a keyboard accompaniment "for rehearsal only". It is headed "Czech Carol freely transcribed by K.K.D", these initials then deleted and replaced with "C.R.W. Robinson", a name under which Davis sometimes published. The Czech original of the carol has never been identified. "Carol of the Drum" appealed to the Austrian Trapp Family Singers, who first brought the song to wider prominence when they recorded it for Decca Records in 1955, shortly before they retired: their version was credited solely to Davis and published by Belwin-Mills. In 1957 it was recorded, with a slightly altered arrangement, by the Jack Halloran Singers for their album Christmas Is A-Comin' on Dot Records. Dot's Henry Onorati introduced the song to his friend Harry Simeone and the following year, when 20th Century Fox Records contracted him to make a Christmas album, Simeone, making further small changes to the Halloran arrangement[ and retitling it "The Little Drummer Boy", recorded it with the Harry Simeone Chorale on the album Sing We Now of Christmas. Simeone and Onorati claimed joint composition credits with Davis. The album and the song were an enormous success, the single scoring on the U.S. music charts from 1958 to 1962. In 1963, the album was reissued under the title The Little Drummer Boy: A Christmas Festival, capitalizing on the single's popularity. The following year the album was released in stereo. In 1988, The Little Drummer Boy: A Christmas Festival was released on CD by Casablanca Records, and subsequently, on Island Records. Harry Simeone, who in 1964 had signed with Kapp Records, recorded a new version of "The Little Drummer Boy" in 1965 for his album O' Bambino: The Little Drummer Boy. Simeone recorded the song a third and final time in 1981, for an album (again titled The Little Drummer Boy) on the budget Holiday Records label. The story depicted in the song is somewhat similar to a 12th-century legend retold by Anatole France as Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (French: Our Lady's Juggler), which was adapted into an opera in 1902 by Jules Massenet. In the French legend, however, a juggler juggles before the statue of the Virgin Mary, and the statue, according to which version of the legend one reads, either smiles at him or throws him a rose (or both, as in the 1984 television film, The Juggler of Notre Dame.)