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So you've got some lyrics. They're wonderful, they're catchy, but you just can't seem to come up with the right music... Hey, why not just put it to the tune of an older song? One of The Oldest Ones in the Book, as many, many traditional songs and national anthems do this. This can produce a very dissonant effect if the two songs have completely different moods. It's also common in hymnody; most traditional hymnals include the meter signature for each text so it can be easily matched to other tunes; e.g., Common Meter (8.6.8.6 — used by Amazing Freaking Grace and many others). Among music scholars, this trope is known as Contrafactum. Sometimes it's done to give a new song an air of familiarity; other times, as the beginning of this description suggests, it's simply done to allow a creator to use a Public Domain Soundtrack rather than having to write or commission new music. See also In the Style of and Suspiciously Similar Song. Sampled Up is when this version completely eclipses the original. Filk Songs are very frequently set to the tune of existing songs. Writing a song To The Tune Of an instrumental piece of music is so common that it has its own subtrope: With Lyrics. When the point isn't that a new song was built out of an old one, but instead that the new song is a direct and overt parody of the old one, then the trope you're looking for is Song Parody. (For all intents and purposes, To The Tune Of is the Super-Trope of Song Parody. Bear in mind, though, that quite a few excellent musical parodies don't actually recycle the music from the source material at all, relying instead on a Suspiciously Similar Song substitute.) Parodic examples of the practice should go on that page; non-parodic examples are found here. While we're at it, please note that this has nothing to do with songs that happen to be in the same tempo. For instance, it's a well-known and curious fact that LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" matches the Star Wars Cantina theme in the middle, as well as the Charleston (as seen here). But this trope is about lyrics, which the Cantina theme and the Charleston don't really have. As such, this fact is cute trivia, but has nothing to do with this trope. Besides, songs being in the same tempo is a "People Sit on Chairs" thing. |
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The Happy Apple has an Expository Theme Tune set to the tune of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik. | |
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In the Noonbory and the Super 7 episode "Wangury Wants to Fly", Wangury sings a song about flying set to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell". | |
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"Danny Boy" is only one of many lyrics set to the tune of "Londonderry Air" (though "Danny Boy" originally had a different tune, believe it or not). Just try to explain the "simple" progression here: The theme to the anime Romeo × Juliet is "Inori~You Raise Me Up〜" sung by Lena Park. That was a take-off of "You Raise Me Up" by Rolf Løvland of Secret Garden. This was taken from "Danny Boy", which is, in turn, set to the tune of "Londonderry Air". | |
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In Over the Garden Wall, the Beast's song "The Jolly Woodsman" is sung to the same tune as one sung by Hansel and Gretel's father in Humperdinck’s opera adaptation. | |
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Parodied in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which the Hogwarts song can be (and is) sung to any tune at all. | |
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Metallica's "The Unforgiven II" sounds almost exactly like "Children of the Damned" by Iron Maiden (which itself resembles "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd). | |
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In 1998, there was an American spin-off series of Noddy called The Noddy Shop. Most of the songs for the show were well-known melodies with new words added to them. The episode "To The Rescue" had a song called "The ABCs Of Fire", which was set to the tune of "We Go Together" from Grease. The episode "The Tooth Fairy" has a song called "Tooth Fairy" which takes cues from another Grease song: "Beauty School Dropout". The song from the episode "Lost and Found" has the tune of the William Tell Overture. |
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The song sung by the Easter Bunny in Sluggy Freelance is not-so-subtly modified from the Lumberjack song from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Which in turn is based on one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic arias. | |
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PAW Patrol did this in the episode "The Pups' Winter Wonder Show", where the pups sing a song with the tune of "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!". | |
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Bill Nye also features one at the end of every episode of the show. And they were surprisingly good. | |
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There are a few song numbers from Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go that are sung in the tune of older children's songs, such as "Old Mc Coll Had a Farm" (sung in the tune of the similar-named "Old MacDonald had a Farm") and "Music is Everywhere" (which is sung to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus"). | |
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When discussing the idea of a baby Phantom of the Megaplex, he sings the titular song from The Phantom of the Opera, substituting baby cries for the words. | |
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The Inai Inai Baa! song "Pyon Pyon Animal Party" is set to the tune of Hungarian Dance #5 by Johannes Brahms. | |
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Luke does this a few times on Mom Can't Cook!: He sings the opening lines of Hallelujah to an upbeat, poppy tune at one point, to illustrate that it doesn't really matter how depressing the lyrics Stuck in the Suburbs' Jordan Cahill writes are when he doesn't have control over the tune they're set to. When discussing the idea of a baby Phantom of the Megaplex, he sings the titular song from The Phantom of the Opera, substituting baby cries for the words. |
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Rebecca from Cheers hired a songwriter to compose a jingle for the bar only to discover his method was to do this with children's songs. She fires him, only to discover his previous jingle was rather effective. | |
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The 1898 Neapolitan song "O Sole Mio" is the tune used for the William E. Booth-Clibborn's 1921 hymn "Down From His Glory", and later for the 1960 Elvis Presley hit "It's Now or Never". | |
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The Simpsons: "O Whacking Day" from "Whacking Day" is strong Lyrical Dissonance for Americans and Germans familiar with the yuletide hymn "O Christmas Tree"/"O Tannenbaum", less so for Britons who know the bloodthirsty lyrics of the revolutionary hymn of the same tune, "The Red Flag" (to give you a taste, the first two lines are "The People's flag is deepest red/it shrouded oft our martyred dead"). The climax of "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" involves the children and adults of Springfield performing a Counterpoint Duet to the tune of "Kids" from Bye Bye Birdie. In "The Boys of Bummer", Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney sing "Bart Stinks" when Bart becomes a townwide pariah. |
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The Mechanisms use the tunes of traditional folk songs to accompany the Twice-Told Tale nature of their Rock Operas. | |
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Looney Tunes famously used opera tunes for Rabbit of Seville and What's Opera, Doc?. | |
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The Totally Spies! Theme Tune uses the tune of the rather obscure song "Here We Go" by Moonbaby. | |
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The famous "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen was based on what the composer originally thought to be a folk melody, but turned out to be a composition of a contemporary Spanish musician Sebastian Iradier called "El Arreglito". Bizet acknowledged this in the score. | |
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One episode of Justice League had a commercial jingle playing on the Batmobile's radio that used that tune. | |
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Julius Jr. also uses What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor with original lyrics in Perfect Pirate Day. They then sang a song with original lyrics about staying awake to the tune of Brahms Lullaby in Smellalicious Flower | |
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While The Backyardigans usually have original music, they have dipped into this on occasions. The song What Do You Do With A Scurvy Pirate? is a filk of the shanty classic Drunken Sailor. Tyrone's solo "When I'm Booin'" is set to the tune of "When You're Smilin'". |
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Community: When Pierce tries to write a song for the college, he repeatedly does this with children's songs. It also turns out he did this with ads for Hawthorne Wipes. After a comment from Annie, he finally writes a school song...set to "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby And The Range. "Comparative Religion" ends with the group performing an inclusive, secularized rewrite of "Silent Night". (Sensible night, appropriate night / Snow on ground, left and right...) |
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One of the ending tunes of Camp Candy is sung to the tune of On Top of Ol' Smokey | |
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Camp Lazlo: The "Buddy Wuddy" song from Parasitic Pal was modified, complete with the same singers, for the same-titled song from Loogie Llama. The Title Theme Tune is done to the tune of "B-I-N-G-O". |
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In The Magic Flute, the melody sung by the two Threshold Guardians is that of Martin Luther's "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh' darein." Its arrangement is a stylistic homage to Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale preludes. | |
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Broadway songwriters Robert Wright and George Forrest milked this trope for all it was worth: their hit musicals Kismet and Song of Norway were cobbled together out of melodies by Alexander Borodin and Edvard Grieg, respectively. Other shows of theirs reworked tunes by Victor Herbert, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Johann Strauss, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. | |
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Journey Through the Jungle of Words: During the King Solomon's Mind scene, the gang comes across a cave painting that prompts them to sing. Their choice song is set to the tune of "Working on the Railroad", in which the changed lyrics are about working on word skills, as they say (or sing) so: Also, later on, when Schnoz Ali shows Olivia and Groucho the wonders of the Readers' Palace, they all sing an ode to said palace, which is set to the tune of Offenbach's Can-Can. |
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Eric Carmen's hit song "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" is essentially the 3rd movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Symphony. | |
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Animaniacs and its spin-off Pinky and the Brain often feature songs set to the tune of already-existing public domain songs, but with original lyrics. The Animaniacs' theme song itself uses the classic children's song Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes as its base tune. The song "Brainstem" is set to the tune to "Camptown Races". The song "Here Comes Attila" was a song about Attila the Hun sung to the tune of "Get Out the Way, Old Dan Tucker". The Ballad of Magellan actually took its tune from the western classic Git Along Little Dogies by Roy Rogers. |
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"Anti-You" and "Burning Bridges" by Blue Stahli have the same music but entirely different lyrics. | |
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The I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue round "One Song to the Tune of Another", in which panellists must sing one song to the tune of another.note If that isn't clear, you could try thinking of a song as being a trope page and the words as being an example. If an example falls under more than one trope you can copy if off the first page (or "one song") and paste it into the second page (or "the tune of another"). You need to be careful it really does fit under both tropes though, otherwise you might be better cut-and-pasting rather than copy-and-pasting. Why use paste at all? Because otherwise you might forget what the example was when you come to type it in. And the last thing anyone wants is to be staring blankly at a keyboard with no idea what they're supposed to do with it. At the piano, we have Colin Sell. | |
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Spitting Image's "We've Ruined the World" is an aversion. It's clearly meant to be sung to the tune of "What a Wonderful World", but presumably either the rights weren't available or the holders objected. | |
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DuckTales (2017): Gladstone sings his own praises using the tune for "Ode to Joy". Lena's friend-iversary song in the episode "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!" was sung to the tune of the William Tell Overture. |
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In The Order of the Stick #445 (warning, spoilers!), Elan sings a song which is told in a note that it's sung to the tune of "O Danny Boy". | |
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One task on The Celebrity Apprentice was to make an ad for a Mexican-themed beverage. Ian Ziering repeatedly tried get his team to use his suggestion: a jingle to the tune of "La Cucaracha''. However, he was rejected just as repeatedly. After his team lost, he brought it up in the boardroom. Donald Trump was so infuriated that he wanted to use a song he couldn't use, he fired Ziering immediately. | |
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Donkey Hodie: The episode "Potato Pirates" had a recurring song about the Potato Pirates' quest sung to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". "Cheesy Con" has the Cheesy Con Sing-Along, which uses the tunes of "B-I-N-G-O", "Mary Had A Little Lamb", "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Old McDonald Had A Farm". |
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MAD Magazine thrived on this trope through The '70s, doing any number of musical parodies of popular properties (including Star Trek and Star Wars), whose musical numbers always included footnotes informing the reader of the appropriate tune. | |
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Fish Hooks: The song Mr. Baldwin sings to Ms. Lips in "Labor of Love", "Please Say You'll Stay", is to the tune of "Come Sail Away" by Styx. | |
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Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: In "I Am Fred Rogers", the gang and Fred Rogers sing a song called "When I Feel Happy", which is sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Note that this song was created specifically for the episode and was never on Rogers' show. | |
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Elmo's World is another offender, with its closing theme tune that's sung to Jingle Bells. | |
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"This Land Is Your Land", by Woody Guthrie is from the traditional folk song "Oh, My Loving Brother" | |
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In-universe example with Arthur: Mary Moo-Cow's theme song is sung to Frere Jacques''. Real-Life example: The Actimates D.W. sang a birthday song to the tune of London Bridge on your birthday. |
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In The Pirates of Penzance, the Major-General enters to a tune we've heard before: the Pirate King's "I Am" Song. Lampshaded in the Kevin Kline film version. |
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In Mass Effect 2, a dialog path leads to eccentric scientist Mordin Solus singing "Scientist Salarian" to the tune of the Major General Song from The Pirates of Penzance | |
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How the West Was Won: The English folk song "Greensleeves" is given new lyrics by Ken Darby to become "Home in the Meadow", which recurs throughout the film as a song sung by the character of Lilith, and in Alfred Newman's score. | |
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Garfield and Friends had Binky The Clown's birthday song sung to "Freres Jacques". One episode of Justice League had a commercial jingle playing on the Batmobile's radio that used that tune. |
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The Office (US): Michael learns the Pledge of Allegiance by singing it to "Old McDonald." | |
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Being a show with a major focus on classical music, Little Einsteins utilizes this often. For instance, in "The Birthday Balloons", Annie sings a song called "I Love Balloons" to the tune of "En Kleine Nachtmusik". | |
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In the 1988 comedy Moon over Parador, the new president changes the national anthem to "Parador, te amo" ("I love you, Parador"), which goes to the tune of "Bésame Mucho". Sammy Davis Jr. sings it. | |
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Aspects of Love is particularly prone to this, with the melody of "Love Changes Everything" used for pretty much any circumstance at all. The critic for The Independent commented: | |
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Dishonored has "Drunken Whaler," which follows the tune and basic premise of the well-known real-life sea shanty Drunken Sailor—threatening new sailors with severe punishment should they be caught drunk or hung over before their shift. This version, however, replaces the original's mix of cruel pranks, impractical hangover cures, and severe (but not permanently damaging) corporal punishments with torturous, cold-blooded murder. And considering the Crapsack setting and dirge-like reverence with which it's sung, it's heavily implied these threats are deadly serious. | |
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The Who's "I Can't Explain" has a similar feel and guitar tone to The Kinks' "You Really Got Me". Both were produced by Shel Talmy, and Townshend himself admitted "Explain" was written as a Kinks ripoff. The Clash later used the riff from "I Can't Explain" twice, once for "Clash City Rockers" and again for "Guns On The Roof". | |
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Big City Greens: "Fast Foodie" has Mr. Burger Clown sing a song to the tune of "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast. | |
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The tune for "A Bag of Weed" is "Me Ol' Bam-boo" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. | |
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Pleasant Goat Fun Class: The song at the end of Travel Around the World episode 1, a Christmas Episode, has its melody deliberately patterned off of "Jingle Bells". The song in Idiom World episode 4 uses the tune of "Feliz Navidad" (strangely enough, since for this example the episode isn't a Christmas episode). |
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In the Perfect Strangers episode, "Just Desserts,� Balki’s “Bibbi Babka� Ditty, which is necessary to sing while making the famous Myposian dessert, is set to the tune of Chubby Checker’s “Limbo Rock.� | |
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The Barney franchise is known for adding new lyrics to traditional kids' songs, notably the theme song and the closing tune "I Love You," sung to "Yankee Doodle" and "This Old Man" respectively. Save for some exceptions (mostly the theme and "I Love You"), this is averted in more recent Barney episodes and videos. |
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Timon & Pumbaa had "Alone Together" from "Once Upon a Timon", which is mostly sung to "La Cucaracha". | |
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Critical Role: Almost every spell Scanlan casts in the first campaign is a parody of a popular song, rejigged on the fly to be applicable to in-game events and performed with gusto by Sam Riegel, with hilarious results. | |
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"Blow The Man Down" and the opening theme to SpongeBob SquarePants. | |
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One of the cases on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law consisted of him prosecuting for a Japanese band called Shoyu Weenienote Soy sauce sausages, who were accusing the Neptunes (yes, from Jabberjaw) of stealing their hit. | |
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As pointed out in Mr. Holland's Opus, "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys uses the sweet strains of Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G" stretched to four-quarter time. | |
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In Doctor Who, the Third Doctor sings a "Venusian lullaby" to a monster (specifically, the Monster of Peladon) that somehow has the same tune as "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." | |
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The Twelfth of Never, a song that's made popular by Johnny Mathis, lifted its tune wholesale from the folk song The Riddle Song, aka I Gave My Love A Cherry | |
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"The Lumberjack Song" of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the older The Goon Show song "Ying Tong Song" both use very similar arrangements to Eddie Morton's "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew", which was long out of print when the two shows came along. (You might recognize it from it being referenced in Homestuck.) | |
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Entire genres of theatre work under this principle. For instance, "ballad operas" — the most famous probably being John Gay's The Beggar's Opera — took popular tunes and rewrote their lyrics to tell a story. (Note, though, that Weill and Brecht's adaptation of The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, had original music, except for the "Morning Anthem", which reused one of the 18th-century tunes.) The genres of "burlesque", "extravaganza" and a few others were the same. Most of these genres are completely or near-completely dead, except for British pantomimes (a sort of very silly Christmas show, with crossdressing and audience participation), which appear every year in Britain. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series' theme takes a lot of inspiration from the SpongeBob theme (itself an example of this trope), though the very first part of it is taken from Garfield and Friends. | |
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The many, many, many remixes of Touhou music occasionally uses other tunes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Iron Maiden. | |
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In Pride (2014), the lesbians briefly sing "Every woman is a lesbian at heart (including Reggie's mum)" to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. | |
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Family Guy did this several times. Whether a given song from the show counts as this trope or straight-up parody mostly depends on how obscure the originals were: The tune for "The FCC Song" is "Volunteer Fireman's Picnic" from Take Me Along, an old Broadway musical. The tune for "A Bag of Weed" is "Me Ol' Bam-boo" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The tune for "Thank the Whites" is "Pass Me By" by Frank Sinatra. |
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Similarly, Pinkard and Bowden set the words of the Green Acres theme song to the tune of "Purple Haze". | |
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"The Hound Song", written for The Electric Company (1971), uses "Caro nome" from Rigoletto. | |
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The song in Citizen Kane (you forgot there was a song in Citizen Kane? Shame!) borrows the tune of "A Poco No", a song by the Mexican composer Pepe GuÃzar. | |
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