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Wednesday, August 13, 2003

"Cheat Off My Classmate" to the tune of Luther Vandross's "Dance With My Father" (inspired by the line in the song, "if I could steal one final glance") (I think what might maybe be funny about this is that the song is so darn earnest and serious... and this parody really isn't)

Back when I was a child
Math got hard and the tests got tough somehow
My grades had been oh so high
Then I needed some help to keep them up

Cheated off the guy next to me
Back when consequences were so small
Teachers didn't see
Nothing could happen to me

But now it counts, they'll kick me out
I have to do the work they want me to
I wish the days of grade school'd never ever end
How I’d love, love, love to cheat off my classmate again

Ooh, ooh

When I and my classmate would disagree
I'd think it's "A," he wrote down "C" I saw
I'd trust him since I'd lost the textbook long ago
And I'd do fine in the end, and so would he

One day the teacher went up to him
Said that he must be cheating off of me
She never dreamed that he
Was being copied by me

If I could steal one final glance
One final test, one final chance to see
I wish the days of grade school'd never ever end
How I’d love, love, love to cheat off my classmate again

Sometimes I’d forget there was a test
But he never did, and I owed him much
'Specially when they kicked him out of school
'Specially when they kicked him out of school

If I could steal one final glance
One final test, one final chance to see
I wish the days of grade school'd never ever end
How I’d love, love, love to cheat off my classmate again