Name: The Brat and the Screen
Duration: P00H03M00S
Description: Raising kids in the computer age can be very difficult! I never would have written this if it weren't for my friend, whom I shall call "Mr.Jim", accidentally giving me a challenge....

The Brat and the Screen

from "UNPRESIDENTED" Parodies by Sandy and Richard Riccardi

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Raising kids in the computer age can be very difficult! I never would have written this if it weren't for my friend, whom I shall call "Mr.Jim", accidentally giving me a challenge....

lyrics

My son arrived just the other day
He came to the world in a usual way
And he had things to learn and words to say
He watched Baby Einstein everyday
And he even figured out Angry Birds on my phone
And he did it all on his own, yeah,
The genius did it on his own

But now the brat seems unable to get off the screen
I ask him nicely but he gets real mean
A tantrum is a coming and I can’t say why
But I’ll get him off my i-Pad
I know I’ll get him off my phone..

I never should have started this BS
I never should have given him that damn DS
But there were chores to do, my brain was fried
I needed just to keep him occupied
So Mario and Luigi were his earliest friends
The friendship that never ends
When the hell’s it gonna end?

Cuz now the brat seems unable to get off the screen
I ask him nicely but he gets real mean
When you gettin’ off, son? I don’t know when,
But we’ll have dinner then, Ma
I know we’ll have a good meal then

If the nuclear holocaust was coming through
He’d still be sittin’ playing TF2
Just one more round, just 3 more kills
He thinks he’s really learning true life skills
How about some baseball or a climb in the tree?
Or how ‘bout just talking to me, kid.
I sure miss you talking to me
At least we know what he’ll be when he turns eighteen
A zombie-killing machine,
An expert zombie-killing machine

Cuz the brat seems unable to get off the screen
Addicted to the rush of his own dopamine
Wanna burn our computers in a great big blaze
Pull my rat out of the maze, yeah
My little rat out of the maze

credits

from "UNPRESIDENTED" Parodies, released June 8, 2017
Recorded by Nat Aslaksen at Cinnabar Theatre. Parody lyrics by Sandy Riccardi. Original tune, "Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry and Sandra Chapin.

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Sandy and Richard Riccardi San Francisco, California

Rosie O'Donnell declared Sandy and Richard "MY FAVORITE NEW SINGING SONGWRITING TEAM" on Twitter this March. San Francisco- based Comedy Cabaret Couple, Sandy and Richard Riccardi are satirizing every thing within reach of a piano, specializing in progressive parody. Over 35 million views on social media. ... more