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Reprinted from Songworm 2
This parody was sung by Leslie Fish on Roundworm

Parody of “Demon in the Dark”, words by Kathy Mar , music by Brenda Sutton

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Parody lyrics ©1989-06-07 by Bob Kanefsky. All rights reserved. The copyright of the original lyrics and music remain with the holder(s) of the original copyright.

You

Em broke

into my caverns as a

G glut

ton after punishment,

And

D stran

ger tastes in food I’ve never

Em known

.

You’re

G wel

come to those tasteless veins of

D di

amonds and dilithium.

Just

C leave

me and my

G nest

of eggs a

D lone

.

Chorus:

I  Em may  be the last on this  D pla net. The  C last  of a  G great  race’s  D dregs . And if  Em on ly you’d stop taking them for  G gra nite, You’d  D see   those big stone bowling balls are  Em eggs .

You

Em beamed

down to this planet when, for

G rea

sons then unknown to you,

The

D men

were dying horribly each

Em day

.

What

G kind

of crazy creatures send their

D cap

tain to investigate

Yet

C think

I’m less in

G tel

ligent than

D they

?

(Chorus)

I’ve

Em killed

a few more miners extra

G grue

somely, to frighten you.

But

D life

, it seems, means nothing much to

Em you

.

Per

G haps

I’ll kill a couple of your

D crew

men from Security.

I’ll

C bet

you’re not so

G used

to losing

D crew

.

(Chorus)

I’m

Em etch

ing one last message even

G you

can read.  I’m desperate now.

I’m

D stuck

between a hard place and my

Em self

.

But

G make

one more complaint about my

D gram

mar

or my penmanship,

You’ll

C find

I’m still a

G haz

ard to your

D health

!

(Chorus)