Song #40

I know I’ve been heavy on the 50/90 collaborations lately, and part of the reason is that I need to minimize the recording I’m doing to give my voice a break, because it REALLY doesn’t like me! But on with the song….

Back in August, one of the guys started a thread on the songwriting forums looking for others to create a faux boyband. They wouldn’t let us girls in and we got pissed, so 7 of us (Ankari, Elaine, Helen, LaChaCha, Meg, Nancy, and myself) decided to create a fabulous girlband to compete with them! Then one of the guys (Swampjaw) asked if he could be our back-up dancer, and we accepted. Turns out it wasn’t that hard to beat the boys, as they never ended up putting the band together. As the High Fructose Corn Syrup Girls, we wrote several songs, and here is our debut single!

On vocals: Ankari, Elaine, Helen, LaChaCha, Meg, Nancy, and myself.
On drums and synth: Elaine
On bass: Helen
On banjo: Nancy
On ukelele: Meg

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You’ve Got Cooties
High Fructose Corn Syrup Girls

Ooooh, we’re so kewl!
Ooooh, we’re so hot!
Ooooh, we so don’t know what temperature we are!
Ooooh, we’re so yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

Ooh we’re so sexy, but you can only watch from afar, cause
You got cooties you got cooties you got cooties
Even though I don’t know what those are anyway
I know you got cooties so go far far away
And keep your cooties to yourself!

Ooh, we’re so great, gonna put the boys in their place
Even though we don’t even know what that is anyway
They try to compete but they can’t win
Cause they don’t even have a band, yeah yeah yeah
Therefore we’re a lukewarm number one!

You got cooties you got cooties you got cooties
Even though I don’t know what those are anyway
I know you got cooties so go far far away
And keep your cooties to yourself!

Elaine plays the drums and she thinks you boys’re crap
Helen plays guitar and she likes to rap
Ankari sings like a bird down in Mexico
Nancy from Madison is strumming on the banjo, yo
La Cha-Cha and D hail from the T-dot
Their harmonies and beats always hit the sweet spot
Bluenoser Meg plays the uke, given half a chance
Now ladies break it down
And watch the Swampjaw dance!

[Swampjaw dancing!]

We got girl power, cause we can’t spell “feminism”
f-e-m-e-m-eminism
We got girl pride, cause we can’t spell “negatism”
n-e-g-e-g-eggitism

We know what we’ve got – do you?
Yeah we know what you’ve got too

You got cooties you got cooties you got cooties
Even though I don’t know what those are anyway
I know you got cooties so go far far away
And keep your cooties to yourself!

… Keep your cooties to yourself!