This song was sung on an episode of "The Chaser's War on Everything", and Australian politcal-sattire show. Do you think they took the joke way too far? Some of it's offensive. But I get the joke. I even think it's true (the point of the song, not what is said about the people mentioned in the song). The thing is I got the joke at the start of the song, they didn't need to keep going and get more and more offensive. The Prime Minister even had something to say about it. This is the video and lyrics...

THE EULOGY SONG

video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dXHleozgQ18 (warning: some coarse language, content might offend some viewers)

Lyrics:

My great grand father died this week
I couldn’t stand him actually nobody could
But as soon as he passed away everybody went around saying what a top bloke he was
So I’d like to dedicate this song to you, Gramps

He was very hard of hearing
He was dull and domineering
Mysogenist cantankerous and vain

He hit the bottle every night
He hit my grandma out of spite
And those stories about his bunyons were a pain

But all that’s now forgotten
Once he took his final breath
Yes, even pricks turn into top blokes after death

You don’t believe me?
Allow me to furnish you with a few examples...

Steve Irwin lived in khaki
A cartoon kamikaze
Who taunted crocs and tots so frequently

And Brocky (Peter Brock) was some rev-head
Who pumped the air with pure lead
So anti-green he drove into a tree

But all that was forgotten
Once they took their final breath
Yes, even tools turn into top blokes after death

John Lennon chose the hippy life
He chose some nutbag for a wife
His songs were never quite as good as Paul’s

Jeff Buckley fooled all lovers
Just one album, mostly covers
With more wailing than Japan does off our shores

But all that was forgotten
Once he took his final breath
Yes, even wankers turn into top blokes after death

Princess Di was just a slut for sex
When they looked in the car wreck
Her dress was wet with Arab semen stain

Stan Zemanek was a racist
A Fatso xenophobic c*ck
Whose views were more malignant than his brain

But all that was forgotten
Once he took his final breath,
Yes, even a***holes turn into top blokes after death

It’s not how they lived that counts
But how we re-write the book
When it comes to truth it’s best to use restraint
It pays to throw away the facts
And have a rose coloured look
When he dies, Martin Bryant will look a saint

Don Bradman was a total farce
A grumpy, greedy tired-arse
Who couldn’t even score one run last time he played

Kerry Packer was a brothel chief
A tax cheat and a kidney thief
And procreating Jamie was the worst mistake he made

But all that was forgotten
Once he took his final breath
Yes, even **** turn into top blokes after death

Belinda Emmett was a…  (stopped by cast)

Remember all will be forgotten
Once we take our final breath...

Yes, even pervert motherf**kers,
even rampant child-abusers
even local Baghdad looters
even baby bunny rooters
even reckless drunken drivers
even rodent sperm imbibers
even violent p**fter bashers
even public penis flashers
even rotting corpse molesters
even human piss ingesters
even tiny kitten kickers
even anal finger lickers
even Anna ‘bloody’ Coren
Yes, even she will be a top bloke after death

I think they were trying to very hard to be trendy and it came out as sophomoronic foolishness.

It's a bit OTT, but there's some great lines.. IMO it would have been more hard-hitting if they'd left out the more gratuitously untrue bits (I mean... really.. what kind of musical illiterate would suggest that Lennon's songs weren't as good as McCartney's?)

With all this controversy it's stirring.. if the band members were to die in a plane crash, what do you think they'd like people to say about them? ;)

I liked it. I think it's pretty funny and that people should just dislodge whatever's stuck up their arse. It's just humour.

John Lennon was an excellent songwriter, but he was also a pompous a**wipe.

Jeff Buckley is definitely overrated too.

I mostly liked the song, but the singer was nowhere near as funny as the man he's stealing his schtick from: Eric Idle.