I'll sing it my way

I'm not sure why I do it or which side of the my extended family I should blame for making me this way but for cheap entertainment, I like to change the words of beautifully innocent songs and make them gross and funny, keeping the same melody of course.

My girls have enjoyed my warped style of entertainment for years and have acquired quite the same witty ability so now I can be entertained as well. "Laughter is cheap," is a phrase I believe I've heard before and boy howdy, that's right!

For instance, our recent remix is with the new Disney movie, Frozen, and the song, "Do You Want To Build a Snowman?"

This movie has received a million awards including ones for its music and soundtrack, and that's great and all, but in our house, I've kept the catchy tune, but changed the title to "Do You Want To Pick Up Dog Poop" especially for my girls.

The three of them absolutely dread picking up dog poop in the backyard, stories of which I've referred to in past columns, but sing them a warm and fuzzy Disney melody from their new favorite animated movie, and enticed they quickly become.

When I change the words in the song to everything referring to the backyard poop, instead of building the snowman, while keeping the same upbeat tune, all of the sudden, picking up dog poop doesn't seem so bad, in fact maybe a little magical?

They can pretend they're the main characters of the Frozen movie as the glide about the yard clearing it from months of winter droppings.

That was my most recent remix, but for sheer elementary entertainment, I've also been known to take a popular song on the radio and change the words to refer to bodily functions. I know, it's immature and gross and how dare I, but if we can get a good hearty laugh from it and it sparks their creativity to add their own lyrics, then so be it.

The latest song we enjoyed altering was by Flo Rida, called Good Feeling. It's another one of those songs that a new artist took and remixed an old song, essentially bringing it back to life. The original Etta James sings, "Oooh, sometimes I get a good feeling..." I twisted it to, "Oooh, sometimes I get a bad feeling ... ," then proceeded to change the lyrics to refer to ... , let's just politely say "indigestion" and "restroom usage."

The song has fast- speaking rap parts, which are hard to for an old mom like me to keep up with, but it was fun to at least try to insert sentences about eating chili dogs and buttered popcorn. Anyway, as disgusting as that sounds to sing about, the kids got a real kick out of it and I think I might have earned some cool Mom points.

Like I said, I'm not sure where this sick ability to change and twist song lyrics comes from.

It's not like I should be super proud of it as it basically ruins the song, but it's a form of immature entertainment I know my brothers and I have been enjoying for years, so I guess I'm naturally passing it on to my kids.

I guess as long as they think it's funny and don't think I'm crazy, then we're all good. Keeps the atmosphere in our house light and tensions low, so I'll just keep on singing my own lyrics, even if it is about dog poop and burping.

Whether it's taking a popular song and changing it so sing like an opera singer, exaggerating lyrics of a song to make it sound ridiculous, or simply replacing the lyrics in an attempt to humor everyone, it's cheap entertainment and lots of laughs, so I'll continue to sing it my way!