SINGABLE LIMERICK MEDLEY
MUSICAL UNDEPINNINGS: These verses were originally conceived to be sun g to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.
However to avoid unnecessary outsourcing, the melody has been changed to "Home on the Range", an American Western folk song written in 1872 (the best known recording is by Bing Crosby in 1933).
However to avoid unnecessary outsourcing, the melody has been changed to "Home on the Range", an American Western folk song written in 1872 (the best known recording is by Bing Crosby in 1933).
LIMERICK VERSE: Original poetry was composed by Giorgio Coniglio, compiled in November 2017, and blogposted on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" HERE. Many of the poems have also been published at the online OEDILF website (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form) by Giorgio Coniglio, 2016-2017.
The current musical scoring was arranged by Giorgio Coniglio in January 2018.
To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: a) Lead-off Verse
b) Chorus (the largest group of voices ever assembled)
1. Covfefe
2. White House Communications
3. Pardoning "Sheriff Joe"
4. Second Amendment
5. Trade Renegotiations
6. Male Accountability
7. Next Year in Jerusalem
8. Senate Race in Alabama
9. Purported Censorship
10. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley
11. (Update chorus) Tweetstorm
12. Reprise - Original Chorus
The current musical scoring was arranged by Giorgio Coniglio in January 2018.
To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: a) Lead-off Verse
b) Chorus (the largest group of voices ever assembled)
1. Covfefe
2. White House Communications
3. Pardoning "Sheriff Joe"
4. Second Amendment
5. Trade Renegotiations
6. Male Accountability
7. Next Year in Jerusalem
8. Senate Race in Alabama
9. Purported Censorship
10. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley
11. (Update chorus) Tweetstorm
12. Reprise - Original Chorus
FIRST TERM on the RANGE
(to the tune of "Home on the Range")
UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT
(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)
Nikki Haley, the first female governor of South Carolina, was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by president Donald Trump in January 2017. By April 2018, relationships between the two had deteriorated due to Executive vacillations in policy, particularly over Russian sanctions.
The term ambassadress for a female ambassador or the wife of an ambassador is used rarely.
Repeat Chorus(es) ad libitum
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