Soul Monkey (A Babylon 5 Parody in the Style of JoCo)
God help you all, a few of you seemed to like it, so here’s “Soul Monkey” in all its glory as a digital single.
“Soul Monkey (A Babylon 5 Parody in the Style of JoCo)” is based on Jonathan Coulton‘s song “Code Monkey,” which was released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC 3.0), with new lyrics and vocals by Chip Sudderth. You can buy Coulton’s music at his web store.
I started transcribing the lyrics, but after confusing “burlap” for “mullet” and “barely make it out alive” for “very naked out of line”, I thought to check the MP3’s ID3 tags. And there the lyrics were! And so here the lyrics are:
Soul Hunter get up, take spaceship
Soul Hunter go to job
Soul Hunter fly to meet his buddies
Soul Hunter in a mob
Soul Hunter know ambush by human fleet
Mean a bumper crop
Dead heroes gotta be collected now
He can never stop
Soul Hunter find Minbar’s greatest leader
About to die, no time to waste
Soul Hunter had big chance, but missed
Because Minbari are pissed
Soul Hunter’s gone crazy
Soul Hunter can’t wait for you to die
Soul Hunter very simple man
With big burlap bag full of souls
Soul Hunter take yours
Soul Hunter take youuuuuuuursss…
Soul Hunter brothers getting worried
Soul Hunter really nuts
Soul Hunter killing bad for business
They want him to discuss
Soul Hunter say, No thank you, busy now
He just saving time
Just living’s terminal anyway
Is it such a crime?
Soul Hunter get answer from pulse cannons
He try to dodge, his ship is hit
Soul Hunter barely make it out alive
Soul Hunter run to Babylon 5
Soul Hunter’s gone crazy
Soul Hunter can’t wait for you to die
Soul Hunter very simple man
With big burlap bag full of souls
Soul Hunter take yours
Soul Hunter take yours, for chat
Soul Hunter make a lot more trouble
Soul Hunter tough and mean
Soul Hunter played by Morgan Sheppard
Not played by Martin Sheen
Escape from Medlab with a stolen gun
Grab a lot more crap
He sneak contraptions by security
Did they all take nap
Soul Hunter get thwarted by our hero
Soul Hunter hoist by own petard
Soul Hunter end up in glass ball
Soul Hunter now feeling real small
Soul Hunter’s gone crazy
Soul Hunter can’t wait for you to die
Soul Hunter very simple man
With big burlap bag full of souls
Soul Hunter take yours
Soul Hunter take yours
I have a self-written, self-recorded parody. Any interest? If so, tell me where to send.
This is great! I’m hoping there will be more of the same. I would love to see, musically speaking, a Babylon 5 version of the much beloved, and musical, The OodCast.
Great song, Chip!
Totally forgot this existed, until someone asked what my least favorite bab5 alien was. This song came right back into my head out of no where. Fantastic work.