Uke-Song: "DARK SCHEMES" (Ochi Chornye) -- hacking, as extolled by the Red Army Choir

PARODY-ONG with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS (music): "Ochi Chornye (Dark Eyes)", poem written in Russian by Ukrainian poet Hrebinka in 1843, set to music in 1884; recorded by Al Jolson, Django Reinhart, Louis Armstrong, Red Army Choir, Fyodor Chaliapin, Ivan Rebroff etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2018. 

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SONGLINK: The same original song was used some time ago as the musical base for "PARASIT-ody", a bit of puffery in which the lyrics for an original song are substituted into a second song's tune. See "Ochi Chornye (Brown-Eyed Girl").  

 

DARK SCHEMES (RUSSIAN HACKING)

(to the tune of "Dark Eyes" ("Ochi Chornye")

UKULELE FRIENDLY VERSION (and guitar, too!)

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

Chord specifics for C-tuned uke:

D7 = 0202 or 2223;  Gm = 0231;  Cm = 0333 

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ORIGINAL SONG
(Russian version per Chaliapin, and English translation)
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