Just an Aikidoka
by Margo Ballou
sung to the tune of "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody", by Louis Prima
(This is a song for an aikidoka who's feeling sorry for
himself or herself.)
I'm just an aikido-ka,
and everywhere I go,
people know the part I'm playing.
Uke for every class,
selling budo tapes,
Oh! what they're saying.
There will come a day,
and youth will pass away.
What will they say about me?
When the end comes I know
They'll say just an aikido-ka,
Life goes on without me!
'Cause I ain't got nobody!
Nobody cares for me,
nobody cares for me.
I'm so sad and lonely!
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely,
Won't some sweet shihan
come and take a chance with me,
'cause I ain't so bad.
And I'll sing out sweet kiais
All of the time.
He will only be, only be...
Tohei Tohei Saotome
I ain't got nobody!
There's nobody cares for me,
nobody cares for me.
Yamada Sugano Chiba Kanai Kashiyawa Shibata Ueshiba BOP!
I ain't got nobody!
There's nobody cares for me,
nobody cares for me.
I'm so sad and lonely!
oh lonely, oh lonely, lonely lonely
Won't some sweet sensei come
and rescue me,
'cause I ain't so bad.
And I'll sing out sweet kiais
All of the time!
He will only be, only, only,
only only be
sensei, shihan of mine.
I ain't got nobody
And there's nobody, there's nobody,
there's nobody, there's nobody,
there's no one, there's no one,
nobody, nobody, nobody,
nobody cares for me.