A-A-A Ayatollah!!
“Come on! Cool your jets. Meditate. Eat a hamburger…”
As you know, the hostage crisis also came with a song.
Ayatollah! was made in late 1979 as a parody to The Knack’s, My Sharonna and was performed by Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation. This song was released on vinly as a 45. If you listen closely to the beginning you can hear the vinyl crackle. The B-side was Unhappy New Year.
Enjoy!!
Download it here and make it a ringtone!
Lyrics
Ayatollah!
Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation
Ooh, you got a real nice beard,
A real nice beard
You know it really caught-a my
Ayatollah!
But you know your mind is weird,
Your mind is weird
You really are a nutty kind of
guy-atollah
Come on! Give us back all the people at the embassy
The Shah’s hangin’ out and he’s takin’ chemotherapy
He’s already gonna die-atollah!
A-A-A-Ayatollah
When you get the Shah back home,
The Shah back home
We know you’re gonna eat him on
rye-atollah
But we kinda need your oil
to make our gas
You know you’re such a pain in the
Ayatollah!
Come on. Cool your jets. Meditate. Eat a hamburger.
Don’t get us too upset or we’ll do something nuclear
(nuclear explosion sound)
Bye-yie-yie-atollah!
A-A-A-Ayatollah!
Ayatollah!
…Iran
A-A-A-Ayatollah!
Americans are mostly cool
mostly cool
But now we’re really startin’ to
fry-atollah
And you know if you were here
You were here
We’d hit you in the face with a
pie-atollah
(spoken)
I mean, nothin’ personal, man, y’know.
I mean, I do like your sandals. Very sharp, dude.
And that robe…Yes. Yes.
You desert dudes are all so tanned.
Can I see your tan lines?
Oh, and one other thing…uh,
Mike Wallace, y’know..on 60 Minutes when you did the thing?
Is he as tall in real life as he looks on TV? I thought not.
Hey, hasta luigi, dudesicle, but remember, calm down
There’s more of us than there are of you.
Ciao!
Tags: Iran, Songs, Steve Dahl
I totally remember this. It brings back great memories of 1979!!! I was just starting high school.
Thanks!!!!