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Ireland sends a turkey to Eurovision

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Ireland what are you thinking? The green-nation is sending a puppet to represent it at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

Dustin the Turkey is a kids’ TV character, and he has won a national vote to sing his EV parody, ‘Irelande Douze Pointe’ in this year’s contest.

An Irish bookie said, “These days you have to be either from the old eastern bloc or have a great gimmick to win Eurovison – and a singing turkey will possibly one of the most bizarre things that a Eurovision audience will ever see.

“He’ll go to Belgrade on a wing and a prayer and, fingers crossed, he’ll ruffle a few feathers when he gets there.”

The final will be staged on Saturday, May 24th.

If you can’t make head or tail of the lyrics, here they are:

Oh, I come from a nation
What knows how to write a song
Oh Europe, where oh where did it all go wrong?
Come on!

Irlande douze points

Drag acts and bad acts and Terry Wogan’s wig
Mad acts and sad acts, it was Johnny Logan’s gig

Shake your feathers and bop your beak
Shake ‘em to the west and to the east
Wave euro hands and euro feet
Wiggle in the air to the turkey beat

Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points
Do the funky beat
Come on

D O B double B L E, yeah…

Hello Abba, hello Bono, hello Helsinki
Ola Prague, hello sailor, c’est la vie
Auf Wiedersehen, Mama Mia, and God save the Queen
Bonjour Serbia, good day Austria
You know what I mean

Shake your feathers and bop your beak
Shake ‘em to the west and to the east
Wave euro hands and euro feet
Wiggle in the air to the turkey beat

Shake your feathers and bop your beak
Shake ‘em to the west and to the east
Wave euro hands and euro feet
Wiggle in the air to the turkey beat

Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points

Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points
Do the funky beat
Come on

Give us another chance, we’re sorry for riverdance
Sure Flately, he’s a yank
And the Danube flows through France
Block vote, shock vote
Give your twelve today
You’re all invited to Dublin, Ireland
And we’ll party the Shamrock way

Irlande douze points – Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points – Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points – Irlande douze points
Irlande douze points – do the funky beat
Come on

Irlande douze points, Irlande douze points

Eastern Europe, we love you
Do you like Irish stew?
Or goulash as it is to you?
(Irlande douze points, Irlande douze points)

Listen Bulgaria, we love you
Belarus, Georgia, Montenegro
Moldovia, Albania, Croatia
Poland, Russia, Ukraine
Macedonia, love you Turkey
Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia
Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegova
And don’t forget the Swiss

Source: The West

4 Responses

  1. that Irish entry is ghastly, but hey, the gimmicks work sometimes..I must admit that Eurovision is my one camp guilty pleasure of the year (ok, theres more than one, I admit it) I really look forward to it each year..its so bad that its good. I had been getting a bit panicked watching things go to hell in a hand basket in serbia over the kosovo situation so im very relieved there is a back up plan : )

  3. My god that is awful!

    Thank goodness I’m not going this year.

    Last year tickets sold out in about 20 mins and were damn expensive (my ticket cost about AUD400 just for the final). This year I can buy a ticket to every single dress rehearsal and live TV event (12 events all up) for less than that (and they are still on sale).

    Then there is a little issue called Kosovo which may cause some problems to visitors to Belgrade. The idea of visiting a war zone didn’t appeal to me, so I’m off to Macau instead in May.

    Assuming the host city is safe (and the various countries send entertaining acts), I’d highly recommend attempting to secure a ticket to ESC.

    Evan :->

  4. David, Why have I got visions of Father Ted (in particular,the episode where Father Ted represents Ireland in Eurovision) with Ireland’s entry this year?

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