Direct link to YouTube video here. Visual description: This is a video remake of the classic Ramones song "I Wanna be Sedated" sung and performed by dozens of elderly residents of a nursing home, it appears. In day rooms and hallways, using wheelchairs and walkers, elderly men and women sing or holler the lyrics raucously together directly to the camera. Someone plays a guitar and another man bangs on a piano in the background. One guy with white tufts of hair above each ear and eyeglasses with one lens patched over with tape plays a harmonica. The lyrics:
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedatedPunk music sung with irony by seniors. This just makes me so indescribably happy!
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go....
Just put me in a wheelchair, get me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-o I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go...
Just put me in a wheelchair...
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
The Ramones themselves in a much duller video performance here.
h/t to Changing Aging Blog
Update: The performance is by the Young at Heart Chorus. Here are links to YouTube videos of performances and staged music videos of "Staying Alive", "Road to Nowhere" and Coldplay's "Fix You".
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