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Wow - I thought this version of Mockingbird was something Carrey came up


with. Or by/with the help of someone else in the cast/crew.

But Lloyd and Harry are singing Carly Simon and James Taylor's rendition.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mockingbird+carly+simon+and+james+taylor&FORM=HDRSC3



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It's also the song Clark and Ellen sing in the original Vacation movie.

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that's where i recall it from... clark also hymns on "swing low, sweet chariot" for some reason, and breaks down ranting they're gonna have so much fun they'll be singing "zip-a-dee-doo-dah" out of their butts and will need plastic surgery to remove their smiles, check out little richard cover that tune on his 1993 album, i guess we have to say "the original" vacation movie now after the awful remake/sequel... i know the sequel to this isn't the best, but the 2014 "vacation" i consider the worst movie i have ever seen, just one of the things that made the 2014 sequel to this less funny (aside from some quite uncomfortable dark vibed scenes and adult jokes) was actually the co casting of comedians, the ticked off angry bad guy in this first movie following them along the journey was much funnier, casting serious actors in funny roles often works better, i think of one of the funniest movies of all time as example, "the naked gun", the entire cast of that naked gun franchise are actors previously known for serious roles, by the way, i used to only know mike starr from playing small bits like this type casted as an angry guy, remember he also threw chevy chase's furniture in the river playing a mover in "funny farm" (1989), but i really have new found admiration of his diverse acting ability after hearing him as a frequent performer in many different twilight zone radio dramas episodes, both starring and as supporting cast, some suggestions of great episodes he stars in to check out are "the lonely", "it's a good life", "escape claus", "a thing about machines".



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beach vacation at midnight,
your waves as sand day didnt shine as bright,
on grain surfed among stars in sky,
rocketed till earth was a dot in vast flight,
hangin in your universe on space vacation out of time.

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So did I, I couldn't believe that it was an actual song, I thought it was hilarious watching Harry & Lloyd sing that song to Mental.

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You didn't know that that was an actual song?

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Not until later because I'm born in 1980 and never heard "Mockingbird" on the radio up until maybe the early 2000's.

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Oh wow, that's odd lol I was born in 1991, but I think I'd heard the song a lot as a kid or something.

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