'A Man Named Jayne' by stephani

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'A Man Named Jayne'

POSTED BY: STEPHANI
UPDATED: Friday, December 30, 2005 09:47
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:49 AM

So, I was looking at one of my favorite parody artists page and low and behold, he has a new CD out.

On it, there's a song called "A Man Named Jayne" about, of course, Firefly/Serenity. I figured people here might want to check it out :)

You can see LukeSki's page at http://www.lukeski.com and you can hear a 2 minute clip of the song at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lukeski4 The song is pretty good. It's from the point of view of Wash talking about all the crew. :)

I was pretty excited about the song cause I don't know many other filk songs about Firefly, so I wanted to share. :)

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 4:49 AM

ANDRE83

Damn awsome song!

Man i want that one in the complete form :)

Jayne: All those years of preacher training, getting knocked out by one bounty hunter
Book: Oh, dont get me wrong. I gave him a hell of a fight
Jayne: Epic i'm guessing

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:46 PM

STEPHANI

I got the CD today. Here are the lyrics for anyone that's interested :)

Enjoy!!

"A Man Named Jayne"
(a parody of "A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash)
(New lyrics written by 'the great Luke Ski')

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me

Well my name is Wash, as you can see
I fly this ship called Serenity
With Hawaiian shirts and dino toys,
I can't complain

Now Capt'n Mal Reynolds is an honorable kid
But the strangest thing 'Tightpants' ever did
Was hire some muscle with weapons,
A man named Jayne

He on a mission, with my wife Zoe
His second in command, why?
I don't ever know
He bribed him with a higher cut and his own room to retain

Now with all of us, He is sailing
And at dinner he'll embarrass our mechanic girl, Kaylee
I'll tell ya, life ain't easy
Livin' with a man named Jayne

Now Kaylee, she likes Simon the doctor
On the run with his sister, he acts prim and proper
Much like Inara, the companion of the sky

And while Shephard Book preaches the ten commands
drink a can of Blue Sun, spilled some on my hands
Which made River freak out and none of us rightly know why

Now we've tangled with Badger and reavers
And all kinds of lowdown dirty decievers
Like Early and Saffron sent straight from the special Hell

But that day we heard a rumble that bumped
I looked out the window and knew we were humped
T'was an Alliance skyscraper spaceship citadel

Somehow they disabled our homesweet barge
They took us all nine to the men in charge
Mal quietly planned our escape, he's a clever guy

But then this one suit insulted Jayne's hat,
was a gift from his mom, well he shouldn't have done that
Cause he said, "My name is Jayne, you damn Moonbrain! Now you gonna die!"

Jayne hit 'em hard right between the eyes
With some thrilling heroics, but to his surprise
The thugs pinned him down in a manner unorthodox

They said "We're not Alliance, we're something much worse
the most feared and hated power in the whole 'verse.
We're the execs from the television network named FOX"

"We need your time slot for a show with Bill Bellamy
and that chick from Saved by the Bell cause fast cars
and DNA means ratings won't be small"

Mal said, "We got fast ships and four hot babes
We're big damn heroes with a killer fanbase, if it weren't
for us and the Simpsons they wouldn't even watch you at all"

Then they said "Your program is cancelled so now you must go
so I can think up a cheap new reality show full of dumb guys and hot sluts
Who, for money, will mate."

So we sit on our plot and a call of distress,
and we're joined by the Earth ship planet Express
And Frye told us their show suffered the exact same fate

So Mal and Leila planned a double attack
We surprised the execs sent their goons running back
Soon the Browncoats and Bender came busting through the glass

We said "This is for Firefly and Futurama"
Then we bitch slapped him fast till he cried for his mama
And we told him "Bite my SHINY metal ass!"

Yeah, you're gorram right, that's what we did.

We left 'em in the dust as we pulled our reversal
Now we got a movie over at Universal
And tons of loot from the sales of the DVD box

The lessons to be learned from all these plans
is never underestimate the power of fans

And if I ever get another SciFi TV show,
I think I'm gonna show it on UPN or the WB
ANYWHERE BUT FOX I STILL HATE THAT NETWORK!

THEY CANCELLED 'WONDERFALLS' TOO, THOSE ROTTEN BASTARDS!!
AND 'THE TICK' AND 'THE LONE GUNMAN' AND 'DARK ANGEL'
AND 'JOHN DOE' AND 'TRU CALLING' AND 'TRU CALLING' AGAIN
AND PROBABLY 'TRU CALLING' FOR A THIRD TIME! EVEN
'GREG THE BUNNY'.........

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:08 PM

DANTE144

I have that from a Manic Monday Podcast.

Really awesome! And Hi-larious!

My friend whom I carpool with and I listened to this for almost 2 weeks !

"Jesus saves, everyone else takes damage" -tee shirt some girl was wearing at Megacon.

http://dantedreams.com <-my webcomic

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:49 PM

TMURRIE

This is insane.

I JUST listened to "A Boy Named Sue" for the first time a second before finding this thread.

aahhh!

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:12 PM

QUOTHTHERAVEN

SOMEONE BESIDES ME REMEMBERS WONDERFALLS! I LOVE YOU ALL!

But here's the real question, and you can call yourself a cancelled show master. What was the name of the KICKASS cancelled show on the WB that featured a punk rock band that could see the dead? If you get it right, you win a protein-filled, artificially flavored cookie!

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:23 PM

STEPHANI

Haha I have no idea...

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:23 PM

DANTE144

Johnny Cash RAWKED!

"Jesus saves, everyone else takes damage" -tee shirt some girl was wearing at Megacon.

http://dantedreams.com <-my webcomic

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:24 PM

STEPHANI

Quote:
Originally posted by tmurrie:
This is insane.

I JUST listened to "A Boy Named Sue" for the first time a second before finding this thread.

aahhh!

That is really bizarre!

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:50 PM

QUOTHTHERAVEN

It was called "Dead last" and it was one of the funniest television shows I have ever seen. These TV execs suck balls, they keep cancelling any original thought that crops up.

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Friday, December 30, 2005 9:47 AM

STEPHANI

Oh, because we certianly can't be having those original thoughts coming though! What would the world be coming to if we did that!

(end sarcasm)

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