Barbara Ann Parodies

The song was later parodied as “Bomb Iran” by Vince Vance and the Valiants, written during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. A different parody version was a viral during 2006, courtesy of Adam Kontras, and the idea was sourced into a number of flash animations that same year. John McCain referenced the song, and attempted a line or two of the refrain as “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” in an answer to a question at a campaign stop on April 19, 2007; there was considerable criticism of the witticism.