When copyright lawyers get imaginative

Another guy down at the studio right now has some intellectual property lawyers in recording a CD for the Christian market, convinced they will make millions off of it. Have no idea if they are Christians.

All are songs that they’ve written based on the bible. My husband was there when they were recording one of the tunes. “Oh, Leviticus, oh, Leviticus, you are a book of many laws. You teach us how to eat, how to bathe and how to act. You are a book of many laws.” In every verse they add another law that Leviticus covers. Which could end up being a very long song but this is the abbreviated version. The melody? The’ve set it to “Polly wolly doodle all day.”

Even odder, my husband doesn’t get the impression that this is a children’s CD.

The original “Polly Wolly Doodle All Day” ends with some lyrics that, well, we just don’t understand around this household.

Behind the barn, down on my knees
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

Oh he sneezed so hard with the whooping cough
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
he sneezed his head and his tail right off
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day

[clear]

Years ago there was this guy who would send my husband a cassette of his clients singing acapella, my husband did all the music and he’d take the tracks in to him and then this guy would lay in the vocals at his own studio. So my husband never met the clients, nor did he want to. One of my husband’s restrictions on doing the work was that he never have to meet or talk to the guy’s clients.

One of whom started off doing Country songs about picking up cowboys, then switched over to Christian songs like, “Happy, happy, the Israeli, dancing in his land so free.”

You’d have to hear it to fully appreciate. It was so uhm soooooo that we kept a recording of it, which is around here somewhere on a cassette titled, “The Worst Shit I’ve Ever Heard”.

This woman later got a Christian television show.