From: PegLewis<PegLewis@aol.com>
Date: Saturday, October 31, 1998
Subject: Nagano media parody (Brennan et al) Battle of Nagano

"The Battle of Nagano"
by PegLewis

(to the tune of "The Battle Of New Orleans")

[Verse:]
In Ninety-eight we took a little trip
with skating writers doubting the K-O of Kwan by Lip',
They echoed 'vent'nal wisdom saying Kwan would rule the scene
Dismissing spry Lipinski as "that tiny jumping bean."

[Chorus, an octave higher than before (analagous to "they ran through the
briars and they ran through the brambles"]

They rushed to their comps and they fired up their modems
and they schemed and they brainstormed 'til they figured out the scores.
That small one zipped with a spark and a fire
and that's why she got the judges' nod in Nagan-oh!

They wrote their words with their brains rev'ed high in "idle"
There wasn't one that wrote a thing they hadn't wrote before.
And then the gold went to someone unexpected
to the writers on their field trip in the town of Nagan-oh---"
[Chorus]

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