Scott Yang's Playground

I was having fun coming up with 2 ads for FOCUS Church Camp 2008 for the FOCUS Mandarin Church over the last few weeks. I think the highlight has been playing a song parody of 對面的女孩看過來 (任賢齊/阿牛) last Friday/Sunday.

The idea came up one evening. Since I am selling the church camp, I want a song that (1) is easy to change the lyrics (2) everyone knows how to sing — to a point that they can sing along the modified lyrics that contains all the marketing messages! That gotta to be a marketer’s dream that the targeted audiences can repeat what you are selling after you! Yes I know it was an old song, but then again I am an old man with limited knowledge of Mandarin pop songs :)

So I had the idea on Wednesday, picked the song and told Jason on Thursday, finished up the lyrics on Saturday, and then went live on last Sunday, our first FOCUS Mandarin meeting at the Red Centre Theatre. I think it went pretty well so we played it again last Friday during the welcoming event. Hopefully efforts get converted to more signups.

Big thanks to Jason whom I only told him about the song + lyrics on Saturday night, and he has to play guitar with me on Sunday morning without any rehearsal. Also big thanks to Judy for her photos from last year’s church camp, where I have stolen many from to do the slides.

Here are the lyrics.

對面的女孩 看過來
看過來 看過來
復活節的假期哪裡玩
快報名去 Church Camp

The Tops 的風景真好看
一邊山 一邊海
動物園的袋鼠很可愛
保證讓你樂開懷

我們的牧師是靚仔
他講道 最厲害
我們的堂主也不賴
禱告查經全包辦

我左看右看 上看下看
每個人都報名了 Church Camp
我想了又想我算了又算
真是值得才兩百塊

第三天是這次的題材
認識神祂的愛
讀聖經讓我們更明白
神的計畫真不簡單

晚上的活動很精采
唱歌跳舞 加比賽
四天三夜 充充滿滿
教會裡弟兄姊妹的愛　愛　愛~~~

我左看右看 上看下看
身邊的人都已去了 Church Camp
我想了又想 我算了又算
新生只要一百九十真划算

我左看右看 上看下看
趕快找到 Irene 把錢包打開
復活假期 不要發呆
別再猶豫趕快報名 Church Camp

來 Church Camp

來來~~~ 來 Church Camp

The lyrics actually makes most sense when you match them with the slides. You can download the karaoke slides by clicking on the image below.