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Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
Parody of Locomotion by Gerry Coffin and Carole King
Parody Lyrics and music by The Freedom Toast
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LYRICS by Freedom Toast
Schools in the United States have got it wrong, now
(Come on baby, don’t teach evolution)
I can still correct it if they sing my song, now
(Come on, baby, don’t teach evolution)
The Bible says the world was made in just six days
And science isn’t real, it’s just a passing phase
So come on, come on, don’t teach evolution to me!
You gotta bite your tongue, now. Come on baby.
Turn back your clocks. Fossils are just some odd-shaped rocks!
Look at Miss Johanssen and check out her shape, now
(Come on baby, don’t teach evolution)
You can’t tell me that she’s descended from some ape, now
(Come on baby, don’t teach evolution)
It might be so in Boston or in Montpelier
But Indiana knows it couldn’t happen here!
So come on, come on, don’t teach evolution to me!
Now that you believe it, come and join the cult now,
(Come on, baby, don’t teach evolution)
Tell your children’s teacher there’s a new result, now
(Come on, baby, don’t teach evolution)
What Darwin found is causing me a lot of grief
Religion’s free as long as it is MY belief!
So come on, come on, don’t teach evolution to me!
You gotta bite your tongue, now. Come on baby.
Turn back your clocks. Fossils are just some odd-shaped rocks!
I believe I have been called to lead the nation
(Come on, baby, don’t teach evolution)
I think I read it in the Book of Revelation
(Come on, baby, don’t teach evolution)
You may hear someone else has found a better creed
But my religion’s pure, and that is what you need!
So come on, come on, don’t teach evolution to me!
Yes, come on, come on, don’t teach evolution to me!
SOURCE MATERIAL
Loco-motion by Gerry Coffin and Carole King
“The Loco-Motion” (or “Locomotion”) is a pop song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. “The Loco-Motion” was originally written for the R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp turned the song down.
The song is especially notable for making three appearances in the American top 3, each in a different decade:
1962 by Little Eva (U.S. No. 1);
1974 by Grand Funk Railroad (also U.S. No. 1);
1988 by Kylie Minogue (U.S. No. 3).
The song is an enduring example of the dance-song genre; much of the lyrics are devoted to a description of the dance itself, usually performed as a type of line dance. However, the song pre-dates the dance.
King and Goffin wrote “The Loco-Motion” in hopes to have it recorded by Dee Dee Sharp, who had a hit with “Mashed Potato Time”. Sharp passed on the song, leaving the opportunity open for Eva Boyd, who had recorded the demo. Boyd’s version was released, and her name was changed to Little Eva. Boyd was Carole King’s babysitter, having been introduced to King and King’s husband Gerry Goffin by The Cookies, a local girl group who would also record for the songwriters.
“The Loco-Motion” was the first release by the new Dimension Records company, whose releases were mostly penned and produced by Goffin and King. There are two common versions of the song in circulation: one includes handclaps during the verses; the other has no handclaps. King performed the backup vocals in the recording.
The widely believed story of how the song “The Loco-Motion” came to be is that Carole King was playing music at home and Eva Boyd was doing some chores and started dancing to it, and that was The Loco-Motion dance. However, this is not true. Eva Boyd was introduced to Goffin and King and they liked her singing voice, so they had her record “The Loco-Motion”. King stated this during an interview on National Public Radio (NPR) shortly after Little Eva died.
Another bit of the conventional lore is that Boyd received only $50 for “The Loco-Motion”. However, although she never owned the rights to her recordings, it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary during the years she was making records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). In 1971, she moved to North Carolina and lived in obscurity until being rediscovered in 1987. She died of cervical cancer in 2003.