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__NOTOC__ "The Llama Song" is a short, comical song, composed by Burton Earny (real name Paul MortimerAbout Me. The Lair of Burton Earny. URL accessed on 28 January 2006.) and set to a flash animation. Its contents were spread rapidly in 2006, when it became an Internet phenomenon, and it has inspired many other (similar) works.
Description
In the flash animation the song is sung in a very high-pitched, slightly nasal voice. The video shows the song's lyrics as it goes, and although the song itself is considered humorous on its own, the lyrics are accompanied by a mismatched patchwork of images that, while they relate to the words, tend to be on the more random side, most likely for effect. The lyrics come in two basic patterns. One pattern repeats the word "llama", along with either descriptions (such as "fuzzy llama" and "twice the llama") or unrelated filler words (such as "cheesecake" or "farmer"), with each verse ending in "duck". The other pattern takes mostly unrelated, generally nonsense phrases (such as "I was once a treehouse" or "Is it made of lemon juice?") having nothing to do with llamas and puts them together in a seemingly random order. The song alternates between these two patterns, using each twice; the final word of the song is "duck". The song is set to loop back around, so one might conceivably watch it forever without having to do anything to reset.
Parodies
"The Llama Song" has spawned several parody music videos, beginning with "The Sawyer Song" (based on the television series Lost), as well as parody lyrics; the song's simple construction makes it fairly easy to change the song's meaning with a few alterations (for example changing all occurrences of "llama" to "Sawyer", all occurrences of "duck" to "Locke", the filler lyrics to things related to the show, et cetera, in "The Sawyer Song"). Another parody of the song can be seen on a commercial on Animal Planet, changing the word "llama" to "mama", and "duck" to "cub".
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"The Llama Song"