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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | OK everyone, I thought I would have some fun here. If any of you know or have heard the 'Ebay Song " By Weird Al Yankovick, he sings about the kind of stuff he wastes his money buying on Ebay, and its sung to the tune of a Back Street Boys song called "I Want it That Way" .
So about a year ago I decided to do my own version of the Ebay Song, changing the lyrics to reflect what us Mopar and FL people might buy on Ebay. It took me a couple of months to get the lyrics the way I wanted them, and then I built up a slide show on power point to go along with it. This all culminated last August when I played guitar and sang this song a the WPC Club Regional Meet banquet here in Victoria, and my wife did the powerpoint video as I sang. It was a blast and everyone thought it was a hoot. So over the past few days I decided to make a movie version to load on my YouTube account - so finally got it done. Hope you don't give me too much grief over it !! ! but it was kinda fun doing all this. Here's the link 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzdVXXOV-oE
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Location: Blythewood, SC | That's pretty funny.
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Location: Los Lunas, NM | Brian's right-that would be the one of the funniest YouTube videos ever if it wasn't so true! I'm sure at least half of the Forward Lookers here will think the song was written specifically about them...great job! |
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Location: Rushford Minnesota | My wife looked at it and commented that she was glad to see I wan't the only one out there like that. Great job |
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Location: Norway | Really neat job. Guess I'm not the only one feeling quilty here.
Lets just say the ladies at my post office here in Norway doesn't have to read the label on all those packages from the US, they know where to deliver them.. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Jumping Jesus on a stick- LMAO - That's me for sure, you bet |
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Location: Idaho - where men are men and spuds are spuds | Ian - Well, that's just pretty darn cute. But you're awfully "normal" looking and sounding for the Forward Look group! L L! |
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Location: bishop, ca | My confuser doesn't have speakers; can you post the words for the rest of "us"?
And, didja notice the date-coded mufflers?
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | d500neil - 2008-01-09 1:48 PM My confuser doesn't have speakers; can you post the words for the rest of "us"? And, didja notice the date-coded mufflers? Neil, Neil NO SPEAKERS? Get with it , this is 2008 !!! Capo 4
Am F C A used,…Dodge fender, Am F C A fuel tank sender Am F C Those dual antennae Am G C I bought on Ebay Am F C My shop…is filled with Am F C This crap… shows up in …. Am F C Bubble Wrap... Most every day Am G C What I bought on Ebay F G Am Tell me why….. I need another dipstick F G Am Tell me why….. I want that mirror-matic F G C Tell me why… I bid on Carson’s old Toupee Am G C They have it on Ebay Am F C I’ll buy… Mopar niknaks Am F C Just check…. My feedback Am G C A plus plus…They all say… Am G C They love me on Ebay F G Am But you know…. I gotta watch for shysters, F G Am Gonna buy…. a 57 Chrysler F G C From some guy… I’ve never met in Norway, Am E Found him on Ebay Am F C F G I am the type who is liable to snipe you with 2 seconds left to go, Whoa Am F Got Paypal or Visa, whatever’ll please ya C G As long as I’ve got the DOUGH Am F I’ll buy seat covers Am F Sell me your mufflers Am C G I’ll buy…I’ll buy…..I’ll buy…. G I’m Highest Bidder !!! F G Am Parts keep arriving in the mail F G Am From that worldwide garage sale F G C A used DeSoto Ashtray ( oh yeah) Am G C I bought it on Ebay F G Am Wanna buy…… a set of spinner hubcaps F G Am Wanna buy…….a pair of Mopar floor mats F G C Wanna buy…….a Plymouth used by Doris Day ( used by Doris Day ) Am G C I found it on Ebay F G Am Wanna buy…. a pair of carburetors F G Am Wanna buy….. a rebuilt alternator F G C Tell me why….. I’m waitin on the mail today Am G C For what I bought on Ebay Am G C I bought on Ebay |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Hey Neil, do you have the relay computer or is it powered by a coal burner?  Just imagine the space you would get if you buy a new one:laugh:  You just have to stop buying stuff on Ebay for a month for to get the money, thats all:dollar:
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Location: bishop, ca | I've got one oh-dem EE-lect-TRICTEE-fired confusers. This is installed @ my business, after all.
Bad enuf I gotta READ your-stuff; I don-gotta HEAR it, too !
BTW: GREAT song lyrics, Ian !
But, nobody's mentioned that you have to write a CHORUS to those lyrics???? (or, is there an instrumental-interlude, too?)
Yeah, I know: strum THIS.....!
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | d500neil - 2008-01-10 4:02 PM I've got one oh-dem EE-lect-TRICTEE-fired confusers. This is installed @ my business, after all. Bad enuf I gotta READ your-stuff; I don-gotta HEAR it, too ! BTW: GREAT song lyrics, Ian ! But, nobody's mentioned that you have to write a CHORUS to those lyrics???? (or, is there an instrumental-interlude, too?) Yeah, I know: strum THIS.....! Neil, I am playing guitar along with singing it. YOU GOTTA get a computer with speakers !! |
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Location: bishop, ca | Ian, I GOT your strumming (right here--lololol!)
What I'm saying, is that the lyrics are so GOOD, that the song needs a refrain, or a chorus, to break up the verses.
Everyone remember that great 1965 song : "The Elusive Butterfly of Love" ? Good song, but no chorus; it just went on-and-on
relentlessly.
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Location: Williams California | That is quite funny. Good job composing that, Ian!! |
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Location: Connecticut | Hey Neil - Grab a pair of headphones and plug them into the headphone jack in the back of your 'confuser' and you'll be able to hear Ian singing and strumming.
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Location: bishop, ca | You mean like: the Tower of Power, or, my flat-face screeney-TV; I don't see any female-types, on the backside of my
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Location: San Antonio, TX | Very, very funny.
Same words from my wife...oh so I see you are not the only one. |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | I wouldn't mind adding some more instruments to it but maybe another time..... maybeI should try a karaoke machine and sing along my own words... if they even have Weird Al on karaoke...  PS - if any of you are wondering about the reference in the song to " Jon Carson " and his toupee, Jon is a good friend of mine, a fellow WPC member from the Seattle area, who owns Fenders and Fins Restoration Shop http://www.fendersandfins.com He works closely with Jeff Carter, JC Auto in Seattle. And Jon does NOT wear a toupee, he took this all in good humor when I sang it at the club banquet. !!
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Location: Norway | If you can't find Weird Al on a karaoke machine I am sure you can find the original by the Backstreet Boys.
Here is a Youtube link to the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPdHBSFYkbg
Would be cool to have all the original instruments with your text. |
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I bought it on Ebay....
