PARASITE-ody, The Eagles' succumb to John Keats: "AND NO BIRDS SING"

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Frank Dicksee

"PARASITE-ody":  Substitution of an invading poem, or a second song's words, for the lyrics of an otherwise unrelated song.

ORIGINAL POEM (invader): "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" John Keats, 1819.

ORIGINAL SONG (recipient/host): "Seven Bridges Road", written by Steve Young in 1969, covered by many groups, most famously The Eagles in 1980. For those who need their memories refreshed, a portion of the original song is found on minified slides at the bottom of this post.

UKULELE VERSION: Chordcharts for adaptation to ukulele were provided by Steve McNie at Toronto Ukes; (the key has been been transposed from D to F by G.C.)

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2017. Note that the verses were reduced from 12 to 9, but the poem was otherwise essentially unchanged from the original.

WORDPLAY LINK: On our sister blog devoted to wordplay, "EDIFYING NONSENSE", you can find "An Undiscovered Poem by John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Jetski"

 "AND NO BIRDS SING"

(to the tune of "Seven Bridges Road")

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

ORIGINAL SONG: SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD
(as performed by the Eagles)