(I should have done laundry) yesterday
Yesterday
All my laundry seemed so far away
Now I need to dress for work today
Oh, I believe
In yesterday
Suddenly
I’ve lost half the clothes I want to wear
Can’t find any of my underwear
Oh, yesterday
Was laundry day
What I’ll
Have to wear I don’t know
This shirt won’t do
I spilled
Something blue now I’m screwed
For meeting day
Yesterday
Laundry seemed an easy task to shirk
Now I need some socks to wear to work
Oh, I believe
In yesterday
Where I
put my pants I don’t know
I couldn’t say
Goofed off
All day long now I long
For yesterday
Yesterday
Laundry seemed an unimportant job
Now I’ll look like a disheveled slob
I’ll wear what I
wore yesterday
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This post can be blamed on the Monday Mission, a phenomenon with a long history of which I only recently became aware, and which is currently being hosted by Painted Maypole. The mission, which I chose to accept and inflict on any unwitting readers, was to rewrite some song lyrics.
If you enjoy this sort of thing, I must refer you to a masterful song re-writer. Mixmaster KC brought to the world an enlightened version of Baby Got Back, as well as a host of other insightful song rewrites.
Update: Still not had enough? To read others of this Monday’s Mission, head over here.
collecting tokens 
Minutes later…
this is very funny! Thank you for playing along!
This is why being a blogger is the best career choice. I did my first paid fashion blogging post wearing stirrup pants and a ten-year-old gimme tee from Starbucks. Everyone just assumes you’re naked anyway.
Alejna, this brought a massive smile to my face. I thought it was poetry and rolled my eyes a bit, but when I read a little I burst out laughing and sang it aloud. I think the neighbours think I’m a bit dodgy now.
Gimme tea from Starbucks? If I don’t trust them for coffee I certainly wouldn’t pay their russian caravan any heed.
This is absolutely cool!
Oh this is fantastic! I love it. It’s hard to say it amused me because it’s so well-done I ought to come up with something more eloquent than LOL, but, well, it was that funny and good!
Julie
Using My Words
Oh how funny and clever. Wonderful job!
I bet you’re especially pleased that, because of the theme you chose for the rewrite, you got to throw in the word pants. :-)
this makes me wanna hold your hand.
Mixmaster…Noooooo. (but I have a couple of ideas for an album maybe you and I can collaborate on!)
I dig the song and oh, how I know the feeling!
Fantastic!
Nice job!
jwbates-
You are so speedy…
painted maypole-
Thanks for hosting it, and inspiring me!
raincoaster-
I take it you don’t need to do video conferencing, either. Me, I like to work in my pajamas.
Jangari-
Glad to have made you smile. Poetry makes you roll your eyes, though? Or just really bad poetry?
Desertpea-
Thanks so much!
Julie-
You are too kind! And to think, you used the word eloquent to describe my writing on the topic of laundry….
Joy-
Many thanks!
jeanerz-
Ah, but Jean. It was pants that led me to the theme. I felt I need to either write about vegetables or pants. And this is where the pants carried me.
jen-
[blush]
KC-
Oooo, a collaboration. Sounds like fun.
Jennifer-
Thank you kindly!
maggie-
Thanks to you, too!
Oh, any other week, this could be me. Strangely enough, today almost every item of clothing I wear is clean and I’m suddenly reminded that it’s time to cull some clothes and send them off to goodwill. I don’t have the closet space!
Our sewer backed up into our washing maching so until a plumber comes tomorrow, this song is definitely my lament. Great job. Lordy, I love the Monday Mission.
Yesterday, i should have done laundry too
this possibly my favorite post ever! i will forward this song to my sweetheart…it’s like it was written for us!
Sage-
Yeah, we’ve been there, too. Well, are there, too. We need to downsize.
Mad-
Ugh. That plumbing business sounds like a very sad song.
Matt Foxie-
It is a familiar tale. All too familiar.
maja-
Perhaps I will dedicate to you two when I release my album.
Haha. Great rewrite. :) How universal…laundry lament.
That was sooo funny! Thanks for the chuckle!
emily-
Thanks! I like the idea of the laundry lament as universal…
jen-
Glad to be of service!