"Yakety Yak" (revised lyrics!)

[mandocrucian]

Anyway..... here's a "fun" participatory time waster for anyone who wants/needs a distraction (to avoid practicing), or to obliquely comment on the topic of practicing (or not practicing).

Here are the original lyrics by the Coasters, for easy reference, so you can twist them to your own viewpoint(s)

"Yakety Yak - The Coasters (original lyrics)

Take out the papers and the trash
Or you don't get no spendin' cash
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor
You ain't gonna rock and roll no more
Yakety yak (don't talk back)

Just finish cleanin' up your room
Let's see that dust fly with that broom
Get all that garbage out of sight
Or you don't go out Friday night
Yakety yak (don't talk back)

You just put on your coat and hat
And walk yourself to the laundromat
And when you finish doin' that
Bring in the dog and put out the cat
Yakety yak (don't talk back)

Don't you give me no dirty looks
Your father's hip; he knows what cooks
Just tell your hoodlum friend outside
You ain't got time to take a ride
Yakety yak (don't talk back)

Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak

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I'll start off with a revised first verse. (Add your own "first verse", or revision of any part(s) of the song.)

"Yakety Yak" (Rewrite):

Take out your music and your ax
If you want to earn some spendin' cash
If you don't practice power chords
You ain't gonna rock and roll at all
Yakety yak (don't talk back)

NH

(It really doesn't make any difference (to me) whether you practice or not - nobody is holding a gun to your head insisting that you put in all your spare time on the instrument, when you really don't feel like putting in the hours. But, please, if you are really just a recreational dabbler, drop the pretense that you are some sort of intensely motivated serious super-duper student.)

[AlanN]

I can't pick arpeggios
Think I'd rather blow my nose
Or post on this message board
That mando gets me bored

"This ain't no effin hobby" - noted flatpicker

[Fretbear]

Don’t want to sit inside my room
And listen to Elmore “Dust His Broom”
I ‘d rather talk some trash and scratch
And post about that July 9 batch

[JEStanek]

You just put the mando in the case
And walk yourself down the drinkin place
And when you finish gigging there
Wash the smoke out of your hair.
Yakety yak (don't talk back)

[AlanN]

Now go buy that Blue Chip pick
and try to learn that fancy lick
Just don't keep posting here
Else you're bound to git nowheeere
(Clackety clack, let's see the back)

[Fretbear]

We’re easy going and don’t mind
Except for BMOAS and his kind
But now you’re on the mando-path
And you’ve incurred the ‘Crucian’s wrath

[Marcus Kaufman]

I played my first gig in a bar
Place smelled like piss and cheap cigars
Earned less than five whole bucks in tips
And spent in all on fish and chips
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)

I didn’t like the audience
They didn’t clap, not even once
I chose to blame in on my ax
Resolved to hock it for cold cash
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)

I ventured to the pawn palace
They viewed my F5 with malice
Then kicked my ass straight out the door
Said they don’t buy banjos there no more
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)