> Here are the winners:
>
> Most original: Melanie with the drugs/Night of the Living Dead interpretation.

..kind of a Tim Burton treatment of your material :-)
>
> Closest to the original: koalamom with the Disneyland interpretation.
>
> Both of you will now be in the balcony seats at the next Sammy award ceremony, with the best view in the house of the top of everyone's head.

Quite an honor, thank you. If I'm unable to fufill my duties as a contest winner, I nominate dingdong as first runner up, since she posted first about Disneyland (I only knew more details since I've lived a few miles away from it most of my life--and I didn't even get all the details right anyway.)*

> Now here's what the actual song means, line by line, or occasionally couple lines by a couple lines.

Did you compose original music for this, or is it sung to an existing tune?

>
*huge snip*

> > The world-famous light bulbs are no longer turned on
>
> The Main Street Electrical Parade is gone.

Ah! But only temporarily.
I saw a billboard today that proclaimed that
the parade is BACK!...
But at the California Adventure Park, not Disneyland.

I don't know if their timing is very good, can you imagine the parade in the middle of an energy crisis? Will they be forced to turn off every other light bulb? Rolling blackouts along the parade route?

koala"needed a miner's cap in the grocery store last week because they'd turned off so many lights there"mom


*but I'm keeping the tiara, the scholarship, and the appearance on the "Today" show.