PARODY LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "Satin Doll". Music written in 1953 by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my satin doll."
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2017.
Note that the original idea of for a set of limerick verses devoted to Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Greek had arisen with an earlier poetic concoction, a 'brief saga' that you can review HERE. (or in singable form HERE).
TECHNICAL NOTES: The call 'switcherooney' at the end of the chorus has become an indispensable part of the lyrics of this song which appears to switch keys, but was written to end in the key of C.
For ease of singing, I have transposed it up a half-octave.
Note that the original idea of for a set of limerick verses devoted to Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Greek had arisen with an earlier poetic concoction, a 'brief saga' that you can review HERE. (or in singable form HERE).
TECHNICAL NOTES: The call 'switcherooney' at the end of the chorus has become an indispensable part of the lyrics of this song which appears to switch keys, but was written to end in the key of C.
For ease of singing, I have transposed it up a half-octave.
LATIN CAT'S STRUT
(to the tune of "Satin Doll")
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