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I Saved the Planet Earth
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A song inspired by Dr. Who
irish folk songs scottish
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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingna
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards.
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Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
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Peak #22
Peak in subgenre #14
Author
Marc Gunn
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Marc Gunn
Uploaded
July 09, 2008
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MP3 3.3 MB • 192 kbps • 2:25
Story behind the song
This song was an experiment in my Pub Songs Podcast. My goal was to write a song off the cuff. People would give me words and I would take those words and write a song. I think the words for this song were: Dr. Who, ladybug, hypernova, and mailbox. Overall, it kinda worked. I could see this episode.
Lyrics
I heard a loud sound outside my drugstore So I stuck out my head A man stepped out of a blue telephone box And this is what he said, "Last night, with the help of that mailbox A hypernova gave birth Last night with the help of that mailbox I saved the planet earth." He told me how an alien wrote a short letter As an introduction to the human race But when he licked the envelope, the glue touched his tongue And a hypernova collapsed in its place. This hypernova sent waves of destruction in its path A ladybug was the first to see, it's true She realized it could not pass through the steal mailbox So she telephoned her friend, The Doctor. Who? Well The Doctor he appeared outside the drugstore The letter he dropped in the mailbox Five minutes later he opened up the box and earth was saved Then The Doctor was arrested by the cops. He cried...
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