My Song Parodies

Over time I have written several song parodies (new lyrics to existing songs), usually as puzzles for the newsletter of the National Puzzlers' League. (There are several better parodists in the NPL than me, but you'll have to join the League to see their work!) Here are a few of these; you can safely ignore the puzzle aspect if you wish, in which case you should disregard the lines at the top and bottom, and the fact that the capitalized words in the lyrics may not make sense (they stand for the words which do make sense). Alternatively, read the NPL's Guide to the Enigma and solve the puzzle (or ask me for the answer).

U. of California (Hotel California, The Eagles)
Love to Hate Iraq (Loves Me Like a Rock, Paul Simon)
Superfund (Superfreak, Rick James)
Newark Man (Nowhere Man, The Beatles)
George Harrison Memorial (While My Guitar Gently Weeps, The Beatles)
Supercloseelection... (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, from the movie Mary Poppins; note that this one is not a puzzle)

Kiran S. Kedlaya (kedlaya(at)alum.mit.edu)