Classic Song: "Avengers' Picnic" (Patreon)

I would call it "new", as I've never recorded a studio version of it, but I've been playing it for a decade now, and people still seem to like it, so, "classic". 

It's sometimes hard to appreciate what the first Avengers film did. Seriously. There had been numerous superhero films before, and of course leading up to this one were Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger. But, with Avengers, we got what we'd barely even dreamed of, and never honestly hoped for: our heroes, our superheroes, in costume, with the red and gold armor and the bright green skin of the Hulk and the damn red-white-and-blue complete with the little eagle wings at the temples, for real, on the big screen, played by excellent actors and with a tight, exciting, funny script.

In a way, it's kinda like Pixar: there are enough MCU films that some wags say "oh, this one or that one isn't very good." They're missing the point. This is OUR mythology, the stuff WE grew up on. And it's taken over the world.

If you go out to the movie show, you'd better not go alone - But do go out to the movie show, no reason to stay at home - 'Cause every superhero there was will pound on Loki simply because Today's the day we're going to see Avengers! The Tesseract or Cosmic Cube, it never will be enough, 'Cause Steve's naive but not a rube, and Iron Man's really tough, The Widow's clever, Hawkeye is brash, Thor's lived forever, Hulk will just smash -- Today's the day we're going to see Avengers! Popcorn time for Avengers, The mighty Avengers assemble for everyone today, Watch them fighting aliens, Defending Manhattan in a most destructive way, Bashing giant silverfish, Designed by Giger when he's drunk on Tullamore Dew, We've never seen such an amazing superhero film before, Nor will we again till Avengers 2! So... If you go out to the movie show, be bolder and do not yield, Just armor up, and rosin your bow, Mjolnir and mighty shield, And just before you're ready to go, have Natasha stomp on Bruce Banner's toe, then run like heck to the multiplex, We'll laugh, we'll will scream, they got us the dream, They're buff, they're ripped, they had a good script, All thanks to Joss, the movie is boss, Maria Hill, her jumpsuit she'll fill, With Samuel L. and Coulson -- oh, well, It's better than mere mortals could ken, And look! There's Thanos right at the end, And after we're done, for shawarma we'll run, And talk for hours how it was such fun, Today's the day we're going to see Avengers!

Words: Tom Smith, after Jimmy Kennedy Music: "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" by John Walter Bratton