Uke-Song: "SATURDAY NIGHT", as might be sung by the Beatles, with thanks to Elton John and a nod to Oscar Wilde

PASTICHE with PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG#1:  "Yesterday", Beatles song written for the album Help!, Paul McCartney, 1965. 

ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin, 1973. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2015.

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 (without images or chords, at the  parody-lyrics site where they were originally posted online)  at AmIRight.com Post""

Note on the Parody lyrics: Among Oscar Wilde ’s most famous sayings, “Work is the curse of the drinking classes”

"SATURDAY NIGHT" as sung by the Beatles

(to the Beatles' tune, "Yesterday")

Performing Notes:

"Yesterday" has some beautiful chords that contribute to its special feeling.
C9 = 0,2,0,3; Bm7 = 2,0,0,2; Am9 = 2,0,0,2; F6 = 2,2,1,3   

Verse:
[C9] Getting late..  [Bm7]

Wanna [E7]  little action [Am] on my [Am9] plate [C9]

[F6] Ma, your [G7] discipline just [C] aggravates

[G] I [Am7] want to [D7] rock; where [F] are my [C] mates?

Chorus:

[Bm7] Set [E7] this [Am]dance [C9] a[F6]light

It’s al[G]right; we’re [G7] gonna [C] fight. [C9] [C]

[Bm7] I’ll [E7] do [Am] some[C9]thing [F6] wrong,

Then be [G] strong to [G7] set things [C] right! .[Csus4] [C9] 

[Am7] Satur[D7]day's the [F] night I [C9] like 

[Am7] Mm mm [D7] mm mm [F] mm mm [C9] mm 

Elton John Ending
[C] Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
[Bb] Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
[F] Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night's al[C]right