I don't know if anyone has done this before, but if you were to do a song parody on the Moon Hoax, what song would you use and how would you change it?

(You don't have to go for the whole song, just whatever you can think of, even if just the title.)

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"As I lay beneath the Southern Cross, the stars tell more than I could" . . . David Meece

"The Fool On the Hill" pops to mind...

OTOH, maybe not. If you read the lyrics to that song carefully, you realize the fool on the hill isn't such a fool at all.

Perhaps you could modify it so that it's "narrated" by a Hoax Proponent, and he's accusing the fool on the hill (*cough* Jay *cough*) of being a fool for thinking that the astronauts could survive the Van Allen belts, the shadows would be non-parallel, etc.

I've always thought the HPs' arguments are their own worst enemies; perhaps one could emphasize that in the parody.

"The fool on the hill is... essentially green"... hmm, wish I could make that scan. :P

I've been thinking about this one, but it's a toughie. I'll keep working on it and let you know if anything comes to mind.

Donnie B. - Good one!

gethen - Great!

So, I managed to think of something on my own. Take the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" (forgot the artist ops: ). Let's see, call it "We Didn't Start the Lier," or maybe "We Didn't Cause the Lier."

For the verses, list all the Hoaxers, their arguments, their methods, and all the other blah-blah. If it works, fill in some of the debunking info. somewhere in the song.

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"As I lay beneath the Southern Cross, the stars tell more than I could" . . . David Meece

"Sing a song of Hoagland
Baked in a pie
Sibrel, Kaysing and Homer
All telling lies"

That would be a pun on the blackbirds baked in a pie song.

A pun on The Sun Song - go to the song called "Why Does the Sun Shine" and click on 32.

My version of the song:
"The hoaxers are a mass of incoherent fools
That have no conception of fact.
That twist truth and facts
Into stupid lies
With no respect for NASA's achievements."

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"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars". - Edward Young, 1745

I could see taking Pink Floyd: The Wall, the entire album, and turning it into Apollo: The Lie.

Is There Anybody In There?
Hey Neil
The C Rock
Bring the LEM back home
Goodbye Starry Sky
Another Crack in the Lie (Parts I-III)

But I'm not creative enough for this. Someone help me out here. :-)

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...And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. --Sir Bedevere

Billy Joel

I was thinking about this in the car today. A lot of the parody's I've heard on the radio don't necessarily have a title that's appropriate to the new topic, they just have a tune that's fairly easy to change the words around. I think that's the way I'm going with this, though I haven't come up with anything yet.

Not that there's anything wrong with finding a title that fits. How about "Lunatic Fringe" by Red Ryder?

OK,


Would you like to fly
in my beautiful baloon?
To Huston where we'll try
to pretend it is the Moon....

Hmmmm.... poor, I guess it sounds better if you have the tune in your head

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To the tune of "You Are My Sunshine" (hey, everybody knows it)

Chorus:

There is no moon hoax,
No NASA secret,
It's just Bart Sibrel's quest for fame,
He and Bill Kaysing,
Fleecing the world now,
And their "proof"--it's all simply lame.

Additonal verses might include:

Bart Sibrel thought "Hey,
I'll catch Buzz Aldrin,
I'll put him on the spot today.
I'll bring my bible,
I'll make him 'fess up."
And it's in the dirt he lay.

Chorus:

Well, you get the idea.

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One already exists, sort of.

"It's all in Your Head" by Diamond Rio

Momma died young giving birth to a son
In a home for wayward girls
Daddy was sidewalk, soapbox preacher
Looking forward to the end of the world
Every Friday night he'd pick a Jesus fight
Down at the local pool hall
Racking up souls condemning all those
Caught behind the eight ball
He said I preach for the light - the light shows the way
Don't ever trust what the government say
We never walked on the moon
Elvis ain't dead
You ain't going crazy
It's all in your head

Lucy was a messed up, dressed up waitress
With a slightly tarnished heart of gold
She wasn't half bad for a new step momma
As far as step momma's go
Daddy knew she was the one as he baked in the sun
In a parking lot preaching the truth
Up shot her hand and she cried, oh, man
I feel it, yes, I feel it I do
It's been revealed to me down deep in my soul
There were two shooters on the grassy knoll
We never walked on the moon
Elvis ain't dead
You ain't going crazy
It's all in your head
Let us sing

It's all interpretation
To find the truth you gotta read between the lines
Work out your own salvation
That narrow path is hard to define
Heaven's more than a place
It's a state of mind

In his quest for truth
Daddy was moved by the spirit
To take up a snake
In a moment of doubt the venom turned out
Stronger than daddy's faith
But I'll never forget his dying breath
The last words that he said
We never walked on the moon
Elvis ain't dead
You ain't going crazy
It's all in your head
Let me tell ya

It's all interpretation
To find the truth you gotta read between the lines
Work out your own salvation
That narrow path is hard to define
Heaven's more than a place
It's a state of mind
State of mind

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OK. Just thought of one.

(Tune: Goodbye Blue Sky -- Pink Floyd)
Goodbye, Rene, Guy
By Valiant dancer

Oooooooooooooooooo.
Oooooooooooooooooo.

Did, did, did you see the frightened ones?
Did, did, did you see the falling lies?
Did, did, did you ever wonder why he had to run for shelter
when the promise of a brave new world unfolded beneath a factual sky?

Goodbye, Rene, Guy
Goodbye, Rene, Guy

Goodbye
Goodbye

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