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Song Parodies -> "Home of the Strange"

Original Song Title:

"Home on the Range"

Original Performer:

Traditional

Parody Song Title:

"Home of the Strange"

Parody Written by:

Robert D Arndt Jr.

The Lyrics

Oh give me a home where the psychos all moan,
Where the murderous demented all stay,
Where seldom is heard any intelligible words,
And the pills are red, green, blue, and gray!

(Chorus)
Home, home of the strange,
Where delusional deities pray,
Where screaming is heard with theatrics absurd,
And outfits are often of a bizarre array!

Where the doors are secure, so no one goes free
A place where security's tight,
A world of pain for the hopeless insane,
Where a chess game can lead to a fight!

A committed mess of the victims of meth,
Normalcy never returned,
Others did murder both brothers and sisters,
Crazed arsonists buildings they burned!

How often at night the Wards filled with fright,
The loonies, the deviants, the scarred,
All of them crazed with their wicked ways,
Behind locked windows, and gates with iron bars!

Criminal diehards kept at bay by tough guards,
Straightjackets there by their sides,
Batons for hard knocks and tasers for shocks,
Blinding dazzlers to hurt their wide eyes!

They can make small demands, in Admin hands,
Perhaps a game or ice cream
A tune to sing along, TV for hushed mobs,
Peace comes often from little things...

I would like to arrange for the home of the strange,
An old fashioned remedy from yesterday
Leading a herd into a chamber secured,
Then introducing Nazi Zyklon B!!!

Problem solved...

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Pacing: 4.6
How Funny: 4.5
Overall Rating: 4.5

Total Votes: 30

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Skratch - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
Dude, this is morbid and insane!
Arthur Jackson - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
So Herr Arndt wants to exterminate the mentally ill in a Nazi gas chamber. Thank you for confirming your genocidal identity. It is you who belong in a straitjacket (correct spelling).
Appalled - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
This is disgusting and inhuman. You are nuts, especially if you think this is funny.
Rob Arndt - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
Yes, actually it is because it's dark humor twisting basically a scout song. While I aimed at more of the criminally insane with this one, I threw in some other mental defectives as well. Btw, if you think this is insane, you obviously know nothing of the US Govt's plan in case of all-out anarchy following the breakdown of law after a nuclear attack or national catastrophic incident. Interior Detention Camps will be set up for enemies of the State. Sound familiar? Those who are deemed traitors will be killed, others will be tortured and/or used as slave labor of the military for work essential to restoring the Federal system in the 10 Zones the US will be divided into. Areas of disease and utter lawlessness will be gassed. Those from nuclear red zones will be contained. Nice, isn't it? And the fact that the US military will have the right to seize any healthy American males for military service and all healthy citizens for relocation to destroyed America for unpaid labor to reconstruct infrastructure and Federal institutions, street numbers, zip codes, and tax collection. You didn't know this, right? It's pretty obvious that those described above would be some of the first to be liquidated as useless. Again, sound familiar? The plan already exists. You should be glad we live in such "miserable, divided times!" Things will be getting far worse....
Rob Arndt - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
To Arthur Jackson: TY concerning the spelling of straitjacket, but I did spell it correctly the first time. My Spellchecker reversed it. This time I caught it and corrected it. I need to proof better!
Bedlam Time - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
^ Changing the subject and filibustering are no fixes for your incredibly cruel, heartless, and sociopathic submission. It's about sick people who already exist and need care and treatment, not your hatred and disdain – and certainly not extermination via Zyklon B. If you have any shred of decency left, you will have it deleted. But you won't do the decent thing. This will fester on your Author List.
Puzzle - May 17, 2017 - Report this comment
Every comment on this thread says this song is so awful it needs to be deleted, but there are seven 555's. Weird, like a lot of Arndt's ratings
Susanna Viljanen - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
Dude, not funny!
I do have a weird sense of humour and I like grim subjects and spoofing history, but even I do have my standards and there are certain limits where even I draw the line. IMO this spoof crossed the thin line between sarcastic dark humour and outright bad taste.

My points 5-1-3. Perfect pacing and match of the OS, but crossed the line where the dark humour becomes bad taste. An average of three for overall score.
Johnny Nguyen - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
What happened to the song parody: "Now You See It", a parody of "I Love You' by Barney and the Backyard Gang It was just deleted.
Rob Arndt - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
@SV: nothing should be taboo for a Parodist. I've written on war, the Nazis, gore, the Holocaust, etc... This is no exception. It may be in bad taste, but it is still dark humor considering the OS. And to me it's just a parody, not a literal idea. That's what has turned this site. People actually believe that everything anyone writes is what they believe or have an agenda for. Zyklon B is not in my agenda. I got the idea from the tv show "Lucifer" which is popular and based off a comic, not the Bible at all. Last episode was infiltration into a psychiatric hospital tracking a killer. Fiction. If you cannot separate fiction from fact, don't watch TV or judge parodies no matter how sinister in conception!
Disgusted - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
^ Predictable: with a parody, anything goes. Rob has been using this phony argument over and over to justify the many forms of fascist crap he has deposited here. But this is different. You have to ask yourself what kind of person would toss off a classic genocidal atrocity, perpetrated from Hitler to Assad, as humor – dark or otherwise? Take into account his other writings. What kind of person?
Rob Arndt - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
You said it: with a parody anything goes. True. And since I have 3746 parodies, you'd have to go through all of them to try to prove something untrue. The majority cover a wide range of topics, not facism exclusively nor war nor Nazis. I write about politics, current events, technology, movies, games, foods, anything I feel about writing. What kind of person? Same as anyone else writing of similar things. I'm just not some whiny little leftist liberal crybaby. The parody is dark humor. Deal with it. Nobody forces you to click my links nor to comment. And I never condemned anyone who has also written of war, gore, and violent themes Parodies can be about anything. Period. Just no graphic sexuality, obscenities, and no ALL CAPS. Those are the rules. I am within the guidelines. No foul. Move on...
Just Wondering - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
Rob, you seem to know a lot about the inside of mental institutions.
Rob Arndt - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
Really? From watching an episode of a tv show? LOL! Saw "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Burt Reynolds in "The End" in the '70s! 1975 and 1978!
Moviegoer - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
So as an insider, could you tell us whether those films were accurate in their portrayal of mental institutions?
Nurse Ratched - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
Didn't I tell you to take your meds before you try to write a parody? Well, didn't I?
Rob Arndt - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
@SV: address Finnish war crimes of WW 2 including:

Killing and starvation of thousands of Soviet POWs
Trading Soviet POWs and Jews plus others deemed criminals to the Nazis
Your operation of two concentration camps
The handing over of Jews by your state police to the Gestapo and SS
War crimes committed by the Finnish Army on Soviet soldiers as reprisals for the taking of Korelia

The fact that the Soviets allowed you to carry out your own trials in '45-'46 (largely to kill leadership) does not eliminate the fact that the Finnish people covered up murders and exchanges with the Nazis for 60 years afterwards (when they began to surface)
Wow!!! - May 18, 2017 - Report this comment
^ Holy cow! You ARE nuts! SV dared to call this parody in "outright bad taste," and now she has to answer for alleged Finnish war crimes? Where's the connection? Why should SV be put in a position to explain and defend any of this? This is madness out of the blue! At least it is misdirection and deflection taken from the Trump playbook. Why don't YOU explain the matter of war crimes, Herr Arndt, including the one involving the use of Zyklon B against unimaginable numbers of defenseless, captive civilians, only because of their ethnicity, ill health, or sexual orientation?

Soon it will be dawn in Finland and SV will awake and tear you apart.
Rob Arndt - May 19, 2017 - Report this comment
SV can do nothing to me. Her nation was co-belligerent and needed German weapons to fight the Soviets. SV has no moral ground to judge what I wrote. Germany was judged internationally while Finland only admitted to some crimes with their own trials. Other crimes they hid for 6 decades. So no lecture by her will affect me in the slightest. She is free to write what she wants and I can do the same. I suggest you also read up on PEADs for clarity of what will happen when this nation gets hit by nukes. Poison gas is still held in reserve for use both against an enemy and against civilian anarchy. I know more than you on that subject, so you are also not in a position to lecture me on anything. Btw, psychiatric hospitals have been killing patients for hundreds of years and torturing them with electric shock therapy, frequently beating them for amusement, sexually assaulting them, binding them for days and denying medication, sleep deprivation, long-term isolation, experimenting with mixed drugs and unauthorized doses, etc... This is a simple dark humor parody. You people have changed the subject multiple times. Yet none of you have prevailed against me.
Bad Humor Man - May 19, 2017 - Report this comment
There's no hint of irony or sarcasm or eccentricity that would qualify this parody as dark humor. None. Your saying it does not make it so. We can read. We are not stupid. Nobody cares about your parody stats or Finnish war history. The parody's words came from you. If this is your idea of humor, then Hitler was the greatest comedian in history!! And nobody has to prove her moral authority to condemn this garbage.
Rob Arndt - May 19, 2017 - Report this comment
I have another dark one for Monday, courtesy of all the whiners here. Enjoy!
Rob Arndt - May 20, 2017 - Report this comment
My use of Zyklon B is no different than substituting Sarin which the Nazis also invented and which is still in use historically: against Iran, Tokyo Subway, Syrian civilians and rebels. My bad taste is no different than parodists talking about nuking (fill in the blank). Other parodists have covered the Holocaust, Dresden, atomic bombing as I have. I'm sorry you're so super-sensitive and wimpy. Grow a pair. I am within the guidelines. As for driving readers away, that's up to them. I've been here over 6 years. People come and go. I force no one to click my links and I don't prevent anyone from submitting here. Why don't you write some parodies instead of commentary? Btw, you have no idea what topic I'm using for Monday and it's not about SV nor her comments. It is unrelated. It's about the German character and before you shout Nazi... Prussian militarism existed long before 1933... and the Germanic hordes thousands of years. Perhaps you need to think before making false accusations. And list your own name if your moral conviction is sincere. Susanna used her own name!
Officially Offended - May 20, 2017 - Report this comment
The Zyklon B reference at the end of the parody was merely the cherry on top of the Nazi trope you so easily use: picking certain groups as useless and evil inferiors, meant to be exterminated. You write,
"The loonies, the deviants, the scarred,
All of them crazed with their wicked ways..."
That is the objectionable heart of the matter, all your b.s. aside. Are you contemptuous of the schizophrenic or the mentally depressed? Here's one: the narcissistic. Do you know anybody like that? Do you want to give him the Zyklon B cure?
(WCJ) Wild Child Jin - May 22, 2017 - Report this comment
Speaking of strange, the "Wild Child" is back! Be sure to look for some parodies soon, from yours truly WJC!! Strange to think however it's been 5 years since I last left the site, but I've been without a computer for awhile, as my last one conked out about 4 months ago. But now I have a brand new shiny iMac to use once again, for my glorious parody bringing to you, and hopefully you will all see, that my skills and humor have soared dramatically since you last heard the wild call from me! ;-) and don't forget Rob, there are such things as Neuropaths too, I know in the last 5 years or so, I have regressed further into a child, and gotten more and more wild as they went on (tis true) & I am one!
WJC - May 22, 2017 - Report this comment
To comment about your parody Rob, it was really thought up, and planned, I can tell that this one took a considerable amount of time to write! But that's you if I recall correctly, no matter how long and drawn out it takes, you always seem to finish 2 or 3 every month, or sooner! Great Job! 555! 😉
Rob Arndt - May 22, 2017 - Report this comment
Glad to see you back WCJ! I hope to be reading your parodies ASAP! I think a lot of people missed you over the years! I'm still here, but am burned out. I used to do 100+ parodies a month back then, but just do maybe 40-60/mo now! Am holding at Number Two. 3750 parodies reached today. Although I use many of the same OS lately, I am approaching 700 individual artists and still span all time periods and genres. Topics vary, but I usually come up with something. Will you be doing any feral parodies or ones about depersonalization? If so, I'll try to match you like the old days when we did our series. GL friend.

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