PARODY LYRICS
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Something To Sing About" by Oscar Brand, 1963. You can listen to the well-known version by The Travellers on YouTube here.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2018.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2018.
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""
(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""
SOMETHING TO GROAN ABOUT
(to the tune of "Something To Sing About")
UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, too!)
Specifics for C-tuned ukulele:
A = 2100; D = 2220; F#m = 2120; E7 = 1202; E = 4447; B7 = 2322
(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)
Specifics for C-tuned ukulele:
A = 2100; D = 2220; F#m = 2120; E7 = 1202; E = 4447; B7 = 2322
WORDPLAY LINK:
For wordplay (palindromes, anagrams, eggcorns, creative cartography, etc.) and silly poetry (polished limericks), see our sister blog "EDIFYING NONSENSE" here.
ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
Click on any chord chart to enlarge and enter thumbnail mode (the slides for both the parody and the original versions can then be enlarged and viewed in any order). 
HOTLINKS TO OTHER CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS
..AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS
Shania Twain's "Verse": An anthem for limericists.
Canada Day 2015 (singable limericks)
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