Ballad of the Kingsmen (Purple Version)

The Kingsmen came together in a garage

They could hardly even play

But they practiced night and day

And pretty soon they got to where they

Could really play that song "Louie Louie"

So they saved up the money from their shows

And they went into one of those studios

And they gave their version of that song "Louie Louie" a try

Now, I don't know the words to that song "Louie Louie"

And I'm pretty sure that the singer for

The Kingsmen doesn't know 'em either

If he did know 'em he didn't get 'em right on the record

'Cause on the record they sound completely jumbled in his jaw

He says "Me think of me girl oh so constantly

I may I make her ah ooh ah"

Well, that last part scared everybody from the PTA to the FBI

You see, the kids had been going kinda crazy lately

It seemed like nobody could figure out why

So they decided to form a coalition and launch an investigation

You know, for the children

They figured they at least had to try

To figure out the words to that song "Louie Louie"

It's a feel good hit of this endless summer

It gets the kids out of control

Singing along to that star-spangled bummer

Hail, hail rock and roll

You know Marilyn Manson's real name, it's not Marilyn Manson

He's a skinny public high school kid from Ohio

He's not some monster from out of this world

And like a lot of skinny public high school kids

He was sick of getting beaten up by the pulling guard all week

And only to go out on the weekend and

Watch the quarterback get all the girls

So, he formed a band, man

And now Marilyn Manson, he still gets a lot of chicks

They're weird chicks, but they are chicks

A few years later, a couple latchkey kids go tragically mad

Everybody's gathered around the television store at the mall

Trying to figure out what went wrong

And this guy says

"You think the life of a kid going to

School around here could have got so bad?"