s,o) Uke-Song: " X66X" -- a bidirectional re-exploration of 'Route 66'

PARODY-LYRICS consisting of PALINDROMES

ORIGINAL SONG: "Route 66", written by Bobby Troup, 1946, performed by Nat King Cole, covered by Perry Como, Chuck Berry, Bing Crosby, Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer, John Mayer etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2014.

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. 

Palindromes are highlighted here in green font and italicized (Warning! Some of these contain adult material). A tip of the hat to Weird Al Yankovic who invented the concept of singable palindromes with his spoof "Bob". See also our previously posted palindrome-song "Gnats Stang; Gnus Sung" , and various other posts highlighting palindromes.  

John Mayer's rollicking version of the original song is found on YouTube HERE.

X66X  

(to the tune of "Route 66")

If you're the type not vexed by 'Joy of Lex',

Get your fix by fax or telex or Express.

The best letter is rated 'XX'.

It's boxed in the slot before 'Y',

Sly x-axis, it seldom rides high,

Best letter is rated 'XX'.   

Now there's, No 'x' in Nixon

No 'xx' - Exxon

No 'x' Al, knit on; toot no tin klaxon

"Laid Fixes" - sex, if dial

Max. esteem meets exam

Sex-aware era waxes

Six axons, no x-axis.

Mix a maxim. No 'x' - a Saxon.

The Bible of word-play

Just flex to the nexus of this text,

Your next exit past Texas and New Mex,

Best letter is rated 'XX'.

The best jest is  "Xerox, O Rex."

Best letter is rated 'XX'.

        

Not 'UF', not on futon!

No 'yarn' in rayon

Un nu?  No! it's a bare-era bastion

Lapse - porno on ropes, pal

Llama - nix in a mall

Sex at my gym taxes

Six at my gym? Taxis!

Sod-lid dildos. Sex-elf flexes.

   

Get relaxed with the moxie of this text,

More exotic than Texas or New Mex,

The letter that ends "Joy of Lex".

That letter is rated 'XX'.

The best letter is rated 'XX'.

Puzzling palindrome,used in Weird Al's song "Bob"

Link between 'x' and NO

The original XX rating

Self-promoted X+ rating

Performing Notes

C9 = 0201; G6 = 0202

Intro: D7, C9, G6, D7 

If [G6] you're the type not [C9] vexed by "Joy of [G6]  Lex", [G7]

Get your [C9] fix by fax or telex or Ex[G6]press

The best [D7] letter is [C9] rated 'X[G6]X'. [G7]

It's [G6] boxed in the [C9] slot before [G6] 'Y', [G7]

Sly x-[C9]axis, it seldom rides [G6] high,
Best [D7]  letter is [C9] rated 'X[G6] X'. [D7!]   

               

Now there's, [G6!]No 'x' in Nixon

[G6!] No 'xx' - Exxon

[G6!]No 'x' Al, knit on; toot [G7] no tin klaxon

[C9]"Laid Fixes" - sex, if dial

[C6] Max. esteem meets exam

Sex-a[D7]ware era waxes
Six [C9] axons, no x-axis.
[G6] Mix a maxim. [D7] No 'x' - a Saxon.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

Click directly on any slide to view the thumbnails at the bottom of the page.  You can then use them to easily go back and forth between the parody-version and the original lyrics.

Adage of the week:  (Egad! an adage!) 


English is simple:

flax, flakes, flicks, phlox, folks, fox, flukes.   

Ignore the spelling.

GioLio

W-I-P points :

v2 L3; No k in Nikon??

Frontier Uke-Song: "FIRST TERM on the RANGE", a neighborly political ballad

SINGABLE LIMERICK MEDLEY 

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses were originally conceived to be sung 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).

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

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

Uke-Song: LIMERICKS ABOUT CHEMAINUS, B.C.

This blogpost is dedicated to P.H., with best holiday and BIRTHDAY wishes, December 2017.

SINGABLE LIMERICKS inspired by a recent visit to Vancouver Island's appealing east coast. 

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to  "The Limerick Song", as in "The Flea and the Fly". See sactoGranny's recording on YouTube here. Additionally, it was realized that with a few mild modifications, the same lyrics could be sung to the ballad "Black Velvet Band" as sung by the Irish-Canadian band The Irish Rovers. ballad. A number of verses are displayed using this chord-sequence as well - WIP.
ORIGINAL LIMERICK VERSE:  Giorgio Coniglio, October 2016.

Lenora Mines at Mt. Sicker
Mural, Peter Bresnen
Chemainus Festival of Murals Society

Blog author inspecting the Historical Mural Series
Chemainus, B.C.

Local Resident Viewing the Mural
"Arrival of the Reindeer in Horseshoe Bay"
Chemainus, B.C.

"Second Chemainus Sawmill" muralist Bruce Rickett
Chemainus, B.C. (web-photo)

Rainbow over Ladysmith Harbour at Saltair
(village just north of Chemainus)

Ladysmith Harbour during a sunny interlude
 October, 2016. 

LIMERICKS ABOUT CHEMAINUS, B.C.

(to the tune of "The Limerick Song" . Display of the lyrics has been condensed to 4 lines for each verse, with internal rhyming in line 3, rather than the more customary 5-line limerick format.) 

1. The industrial base of Chemainus
Its historical murals explain us 

A few ancestors thrived  / (logging barely survived) --
Their respect for the land was disdainous.
   On Mt. Sicker o’erlooking the brine

Lived a miner with child Clementine. 

She ran off with a logger / (as retold by this blogger),   

Took his liquor, and shoes number nine.
   Gord, an eco-wise man near Chemainus,

Panned for gold, an old tale to entrain us. 

But it’s not as you think -- / he adored tin or zinc,   

But the ore he deplored was uranous.
   Rex, a royalist chap from Chemainus,

Thought that monarchists’ views should constrain us.

In his note to the Queen /  He expressed why he’s keen, 

“Visit! Come over soon, for you reign us.”
  An astronomy buff from Chemainus
Suffered craving for chocolate most heinous.

He snarfed heavenly Stars, / Milky-Ways and Mars bars,
But his fave nighttime site was Uranus.
  In a bar, not too far from Chemainus, 
Sang a man with guitar to refrain us.
"From your face wipe that grin! / townfolks' patience grows thin:
Your poor verses do not entertain us." 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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

    

HOTLINKS TO OTHER CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

An Alien Heading South

Big Rob Rehab Clinic

Canadian Reunion

Canoeing Lesson

I've Got Anagrams, Eh?

Flight of the Loonie

FOP-Shop Wine

Mergerwocky

Off-Patent Drug #19

Prattle of New Orleans

Suburbs' Guy

This Land Has Anagrams 

TTC Voices

Vancouver's Isle

..AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS

Shania Twain's "Verse": An anthem for limericists

Canada Day 2015 (singable limericks)

Limericks About Chemainus, B.C. (see below)