‘I Ought to Drink Them All’ – The Adele Mommy-Mix

I don’t know about you, but when a song or a melody gets stuck in my head I have the bad habit of making up my own lyrics to go along with the music.  As a mom I have done this many times for my kids amusement – so much so that Prince has started do it too.  Just yesterday I caught him singing “Twinkle, twinkle, little Buzz(as in lightyear), how I wonder what you is.”

 I am telling you all of this because recently I was giving the boys a bath and I had the Adele song “Rolling in the Deep” stuck in my head.  If you haven’t heard this song you must have been living in Antarctica for the past few months, and even there I wouldn’t be surprised if the penguins were squawking it out.  Anyway, the tune was stuck in my head and I just started adding my own lyrics based on what was happening at the moment.  Think Weird Al, mommy-style.  Before the end of bath time I had written the first verse and the chorus.  I shared my lyrics with a few friends and they thought it was so hilarious that I thought I would share it with you all as well, especially since the content is so mommy-related.  But if you know me, you know that I tend to take things to the extreme.  So not only did I write lyrics for the entire song, I also figured a music video was in order. 

Somehow I managed to convince/bribe/threaten Alice into helping out and together we begged/pleaded/cried until my friend Dawn (who can sing better than either of us and is not opposed to being embarrassed on the internet) agreed to sing and act out my song for the music video. 

Now, before you view the wonder that is our music video, a few notes:  If you haven’t noticed already, Alice and I are big SNL fans.  So like on SNL, our music video is all in good fun and not meant to be taken literally.  We really don’t want you all thinking that this is an accurate representation of a typical night for us.  Also, no alcohol was consumed during the making of this video – only cranberry and apple juice.   Finally, as everyone involved in the making of this video has kids, we only had a limited amount of time to shoot it.  Specifically between the hours of 9-12 at night.  What with the props, staging, blocking, and technical difficulties, this only allowed us to shoot the video three times.  Therefore, it is not quite perfect and you will have to excuse the fact that our star bursts out laughing at one point – it was really our fault anyway as we were laughing so hard at her off camera.  But here it is, the best of the three, and we hope you get as many laughs out of it as we did.

I Ought to Drink Them All – the Adele ‘Rolling in the Deep’ Mommy Mix

P.S – Please let us know what you thought of this feature.  We are currently thinking of making Mommy-Mixes for other songs as well, but will only post them if you all enjoy the concept.  You can comment below, email us at escapefrommommyland@gmail.com or comment on our youtube page.  If you all like the idea, our next Mommy-Mix will be to 'Blow' by Ke$ha.  Also, the lyrics for this Mommy-Mix are below in case you can’t make out all of the words in the video.

Lyrics:

There’s my baby, playin in the tub

Singin’ his alphabet and given his brother hugs

Finally I have a chance to think

When the kids go to bed I’m gonna go get a drink

Today has been so hard to get through

One kid fell down the stairs and the other one lost his shoes

I don’t have time to pee, don’t even have time to blink

I’m so not kiddin when I say I need a drink.

A nice red wine or an ice cold beer

I can’t help thinkin that I ought to drink them all

A shot of schnapps or some hard lemonade

I can’t help thinkin that

I ought to drink them all-all-all

So I can get some slee-e-ep

I am so freaking tired

I don’t wanna hear a peep

I’m outnumbered that much I can tell

As soon as one calms down the other one starts to yell

Then their diapers really start to stink

How much longer till I can go get a drink?

A nice red wine or an ice cold beer

I can’t help thinkin that I ought to drink them all

A shot of schnapps or some hard lemonade

I can’t help thinkin that

I ought to drink them all-all-all

So I can get some slee-e-ep

I am so freaking tired

I don’t wanna hear a peep

I ought to drink them all-all-all

So I can get some slee-e-ep

I am so freaking tired

I don’t wanna hear a peep

All day long I’m runnin up and down

Chasing then everywhere I must have lost 5 pounds

Dirty dishes fillin up my sink

Please try to understand how badly I need a drink!

I ought to drink them all, I ought to drink them all

Them all, them all, them all...

I ought to drink them all-all-all

So I can get some slee-e-ep

I am so freaking tired

I don’t wanna hear a peep

I ought to drink them all-all-all

So I can get some slee-e-ep

I am so freaking tired

I don’t wanna, don’t wanna, don’t wanna, don’t wanna hear a peep.

-Wendy (aka –the Mommy-mixing genius)