A Public Service

For fans of faux-hillbilly-cum-parody songs, here's the painstaking trascription of the lyrics to "Serutan Yob." (I figured this was called for after the overwhelming response to my last post on the subject.)

Serutan Yob (A Song for Backwards Boys and Girls under 40)

Enrohtwah:
Owwwwwwwooooh.

Karen Tedder:
There was a boy, a plum enchanted boy,
They say he wandered fer, he had to wander fer on land and sea,
He was kind of shy with one bad eye,
But a real wise guy was he.

And then one day, this feller passed my way,
And, man, we chewed the fat about this and that, and he done said to me,
The durndest thing you’ll ever learn is how to love …

(Unidentified voice:
Well, what d’ ya know!)

Karen Tedder:
And give a little lovin’ right back.

Enrohtwah:
Drr dr dr dr, dr dr dr dr dr dr,
Dr dr dr, d dr dr dr, d dr dr dr
D dr dr dr dr drrrrrrrr

Karen Tedder:
One, two, three, four
One, two, three, four
One, two, three, four
One, two, three, four

Unidentified voice:
I’m a noon*

Enrohtwah:
Drr dr dr dr, dr dr dr dr dr dr, d dr dr dr

Unidentifed voice:
Mother nature!

Karen Tedder:
Tee woo diddy ya da dum!

Skippy:
You tell them about the boy, our turn?

Voice:
All right, Skippy, the boy I mean was also peachy keen, a real gone guy from Goneville. He was scatty-boo and oogily too, and he lived in Passahogan. He built his nest …

Karen Tedder:
Yes, that’s the boy …

Voice:
Wait, wait, wait a minute. Come in later.

Karen Tedder:
Excuse me!

Voice:
That’s all right, but just wait. He built his nest in a big old tree, and I gotta skip down … One happy day in a big café, there was something that caught his eye. The menu read, well, here’s what it said: fresh …

Karen Tedder:
Yes, that’s the boy …

Voice:
Wait a minute! Wait, wait. Fresh hoganberry pie.

Skippy:
Oh, neat!

Voice:
The sad-eyed boy exclaimed.

Skippy:
Exactly!

Karen Tedder:
Yes, that’s the boy …

Voice:
Oh, go ahead …

Karen Tedder:
… the plum enchanted boy,
That boy that wandered fer, so very fer, over land and sea,
He was awful shy account of his bad eye,
But a real wise guy was he.

Then one day this gad fe’er passed my way,
And, man, we threw some guff about things and stuff,
And this he said to me …

Voice:
No, that’s all right, I think he said, I think he said rocky much* …

Other voice:
I don’t see why you say he can’t say that, he said it before! The salmon industry in Alaska!

Voice:
Can we get a roll in here please? Can we get a roll? You may all, you may all talk!

Karen Tedder:
The durndest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and then return,
And love some more and give a little lovin’ right back.


*not sure about these transcriptions