Weird Al Yankovich

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I'm sure someone has pointed this out long ago, but I've just noticed something about Weird Al's song "Bob" on his Poodle Hat Album.


Every line Al sings is a palindrome. To get the proper effect you have to imagin this is sung by Bob Dylan*, with harmonica bursts and nasally vocals.

"
I, man, am regal -- a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see God?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?

Ah Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi", I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda

Oh, no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies -- run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
"

Isn't that interesting?


*"Bob Dylan was the world's first protest singer. Every time he opened his mouth to sing, people protested." (The Uncyclopeadia Of Rock.)

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Talent like that is rare, rarer still is the ability to make a living with it :)

[ka-crow.livejournal.com]

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Oh ho!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Roma summus amor!

("Rome, the supreme love," oldest known palendrome, found as grafitti on some Roman ruins. Yet another bit of useless information!)

[elektron.livejournal.com]

No wonder it made no sense O.o