Uke-Song: "MY TENOR UKE", featuring politically corrected lyrics

SONG with PARODY-LYRICS and UKULELE CHORDS 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "My Tall Silk Hat", 1933, traditional camp-song, based on the popular Neapolitan song "Funiculi, Funicula", 1880.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013.

Transit riders in silk hats (London)

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE. 
You can also view the lyrics and commentary at the  parody-lyrics site where they were originally posted online  at AmIRight.com "

EXPLANATION:
In the traditional version of this schoolboy parody, based on the tune of ‘Funiculi, Funicula’, a “big a-fat-a lady” squashes a hat on the seat of a public vehicle. The current updated lyrics are, I hope, more politically correct, less disparaging of Italian accents, and generally more appealing to adults. The final line of the original version, "funiculi, funicula" is a Neapolitan Ta-da!, meaning let's go up there. Pronounce the "j"s as "y" to sound like an Italian tenor. 

considered politically incorrect:

the most widely known English-language spoof

 MY TENOR UKE

 (to the tune of the spoof "My Tall Silk Hat")

ORIGINAL SCHOOLBOY/BOYSCOUT SPOOF

Introduction:
Inspired by trendy p’litical correctness,

I changed a song, an old camp-song,

Reflecting pre-teen Piggy/Twiggy bias,

That got it wrong, so very wrong.

   

Besides, a flavor more Napolitana,

I craved to chance, appeal enhance;

And so I trimmed my 'Lady' down to sexy,

Not anorexy,

And let her dance, a bella dance !

Revised Camp-Song: 

One day, as I was riding up the tramway,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke

I laid it on the seat a-right beside me,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke. 

The tall and shapely Nina sat upon it,

Was that a fluke? My tenor uke !

And launched a liaison volcanic,

(Not too platonic); my tenor uke, my tenor uke ! 

Pavarotti, what do you think of that ?

Master it, six sharps or seven flats;

‘Cause body-type is so much hype;

It’s only brawn or big-a belly –-

So save a seat in cielo

For our sleek friend A. Bocelli.

Outro:

‘Ncoppa jammo ja’, ukulelí, ukulelá.

Pavarotti (left),  Bocelli (right)

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