I Got You Babe (2010 Election Redux)

Here's a topical song I've cobbled together to an old familiar tune.

NICK CLEGG AND DAVID CAMERON ARE ON STAGE.

DAVE:
They say we're young and didn't know
How to become friend instead of foe

NICK:
But coalition feels so right
Who cares if we change horses overnight?

BOTH: Dave
NICK: I got you Dave
DAVE: Just call me Dave

DAVE: Six billion savings, instant cuts?
NICK: Our manifesto plan was always nuts
DAVE: How's capping immigration Nick?
NICK: Amnesty amnesia does the trick

BOTH: Dave
NICK: I got you Dave
DAVE: Just call me Dave

DAVE:
I got powers, to make parliaments fixed,
If that goes wrong, we'll say it's one of Nick's

NICK:
Sometimes I get scared, it might all fall down
But at least I can say, that I got rid of Brown

DAVE:
New politics is here to stay
Don't let them claim it's more like Groundhog Day
Just put your Libdem hand in mine
There's no compromise that we can't find

BOTH: Dave
NICK: I got you Dave
DAVE: Just call me Dave

DAVE: I got my majority
NICK: I got all your policy
DAVE: I've got you to take the blame
NICK: My party's blue in all but name
DAVE: I got stable Government
NICK: I got new views on Trident
DAVE: I got you to DPM
NICK: I got you to Number Ten

TOGETHER:
NICK: You got me Dave
DAVE: Just call me Dave

END

No real killer gags, but I suspect it could work well when performed.

Cheers Timbo - I hope you're right. It's more satire than belly-laugh, I think/hope.

I like the pace, and you've used it to lead into nice lines, especially the majority/policy and DPM/Number 10. Nice and light, whilst as you say not belly-laughs, I think it would do well. Imagine performers will like it, some nice room to act round it for visual laughs.

It's more satire than belly-laugh, I think/hope.

For a piece of satire, it's just not cutting enough.

After a few sherries, it may raise one or two chuckles inside a care home - in a Knees Up Mother Brown kinda way - but nowhere else.

An excelent match to the lyrics and lots of musical puns top stuff. And an easy tune to get a late entry (as the pimp said to the one man band at the 24 hour brothel)

Seriously a solid News Revue special.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I didn't manage to improve that Trident line but it's gone now. Hopefully NR and Treason audiences come from Don's care home nowadays.

I've written a batch of songs for them recently, and the only ones they like, they tend to email back saying that they're either too confused, or not funny enough.

It's easy, when you're writing them to be happy with the rhythm and scanning, which can misdirect your eye, or ear, elsewhere.

That said - the constant joke IS the implied romance from the song, that gives it zip, and this lot are dang right in that there's no doubt that the right director can make this visual, and thus make it work.

Wry smiles when read, yes, but those smiles should make sounds when this is staged.

Good work.