Glen Raphael - Yippee Ki-Yay

from SpinTunes #14 Round 3 by Spintunes

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Based on: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor (first performed in 1824)
Also based on: The Bruce Willis movie _Die Hard_

lyrics

I learned from a movie genre
Pacifism’s not the way
When bad guys are problematic
Good guys have to save the day
If you weren’t alive in the 80s
You might not know what it’s about
When you watch this kind of movie
There will be a body count

Way back in the 1980s
Action heroes held the light
Sly Stallone and Schwarzenegger
Wiped out bad guys left and right
If you love the films of that era
There is a format you should know:
Serving up the grand explosions
With a side of mistletoe
(Of mistletoe - it’s christmastime - add a side of mistletoe)

It's a lovely winter party
Poor Bruce Willis shows up late
Scaling Nakatomi Tower
Bad guys to defenestrate
It’s too bad he didn’t have cell phones
Or any other way to call
When you go against Bruce Willis
From a window you will fall

Now it happens every Christmas
Action movies fill our view
you should probably have a favorite
Even if you are a Jew
It’s a lovely holiday feature
Even for those who lack a tree
So invite the neighbors home for
Your _Die Hard_ anthology
(Anthology - defenestrate - with a side of mistletoe)

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from SpinTunes #14 Round 3, released April 29, 2018

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