SILLY SONGS and SATIRE: o) Reggae Uke-Song: F.O.P.

PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG : "Red Red Wine", Neil Diamond 1968, covered by the reggae band UB40, 1983, with addition of a "toasted" rap section.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.

PARODY-LYRIC-LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

In my province of Ontario and a few other Canadian provinces, licences are granted to shops which allow customers to make their own beer or wine "for personal consumption". These stores are generally referred to by the public as "wineries" or "wineshops", but the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario who regulates these outlets, refers to the stores as UVin or UVin/UBrew, and to the process as FOP (ferment on premises). Some customers who have appropriate space and ambient conditions in their basements prefer to buy equipment and kits for FAH (ferment at home). I personally had been an enthusiastic user of FOP for 15 years, (although I must admit that I have seldom referred to it by this term).

wine kits for sale
in an Ontario store

staff workspace
in a UVin/UBrew shop

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)

This is a great place to practise the reggae technique of banging the ukulele (with your thumb) on the on-beats, and strumming (backwards direction) on the important off-beats.