I must have had a bit of a love-hate thing with Oasis at that time. I’d bought their albums – perhaps I just wanted to make full use of them for NewsRevue. I rather like this one, taking advantage of the somewhat derivative…sorry, I mean “tribute”…nature of Oasis’s oeuvre.
HALITOASIS
(To the Tune of “Whatever”)
VERSE 1
Free of any copyright,
Whatever you wrote,
I change the odd note,
That’s my lot.VERSE 2
Free of any royalties,
I just have to sneeze,
The damned NME
Studies my snot.MIDDLE EIGHT
It always seems to me,
That half our tunes are from 1973;
And also lyrically,
Like “stay on the bus, forget about us”,
Is from “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree”.OUTRO
Free!!
Below is a video of Oasis singing Whatever with the lyrics on the screen: