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In a last-ditch attempt to put off finishing my Administrative Law outline, I’ve been putting together a Rhapsody playlist of songs that make puns on legal terms — Belle and Sebastian’s “Legal Man”, The Story’s “The Perfect Crime”, and Jenny Toomey’s rendition of Franklin Bruno’s “Union Busting” are all on the list already.

I found a song that doesn’t fit my playlist’s theme, but that seemed worth mentioning nonetheless. It’s called “Stoled: The Copyright Infringement Incident” by Cledus T. Judd, and it’s apparently parody of “Sold: The Grundy County Auction Incident” by John Michael Montgomery.

The chorus:

And I said,
Hey John Michael Montgomery won’t mind
If I take a song and make it mine all mine
Like I did so many times with old Tim McGraw’s
Yeah I never heard anything sound so fine
Mind if I borrow one or two of your lines
Well I stole it once stole it twice
I STOLE it from a writer on Music Row
Well he just moved to town and he didn’t know
About ASCAP, SESAC, or BMI
So he might as well kiss his song goodbye.

Here’s a Rhapsody playlist of the parody and its source.

While procrastinating in a similar vein yesterday, I put together this playlist, which counts from “One” to “Twenty-Four”.