Heavenly Uke-Song: "MY BLUE SIT-ON"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "My Blue Heaven", W. Donaldson (music), G.A.Whiting (lyrics), 1928. Performed originally by Gene Austin, covered by almost 100 other bands and soloists, from Marlene Dietrich to Norah Jones.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, May 2015, post updated May 2018. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications), and treat yourself to pile of wordplay, illustrated poems and nature photos, click HERE.

 

Shem Creek, SC
foreground: sit-on kayak
background: trawlers

MY BLUE SIT-ON

(to the tune of "My Blue Heaven")l

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, too!)

(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):
F7 = 2310 (or 2313);  Bb6 = 0211;  Bb = 3211;  Cm7 = 3333;  Fdim7 = 1212;  Bb7 = 1211;  Eb = 0331 . 

final harmonic = 7565

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS (Johnny Horton version)

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Limerick-Uke-Saga: "CLAIRE'S CELERITY"

UKE-SONG, derived from lyrics of a multi-verse limerick.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: For this post, we will use the melody for "The Limerick Song".

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS:

A limerick: a verse that is singable

(If the diction's not flagrantly flingable);

Brings a humorous note

To a view you'd promote -- 

And it rings, like a bell ding-alingable.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS: Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio. After undergoing their rigorous collaborative editing process, these have been published as a "brief saga", a poetic entity of three or more stanzas, on the poetry website OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form, at OEDILF.com); they have then been displayed as poetry lyrics on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE to review Giorgio's blogged poem.

SETTING WORDS TO MUSIC: Readers might be interested to know that of more than 1000 short poems that we have published, only 50 or so would qualify as "brief sagas". Although almost any limerick verse (e.g. the "Nantucket limericks") can be set to music, we were particularly interested in exploring this transitiioning for these multiverse poems that warrant the time to pick up your ukulele.

The tunes we have exploited in this effort include, not surprisingly "The Limerick Song", as here. On certain occasions we have also used "Summertime", "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", and others (minor modifications to scansion are required for some of these).


SONG-LINKS: If interested, you could check Giorgio's other song-posts (There are also many shorter illustrated verses, remaining under the poetry rubric that can be found on "Daily Edifying Nonsense", although these, too, are singable.)

first stanza:/ ”Claire explains that it isn’t a rarity/ To encounter a word like celerity./ “IT’s been thrust, with propellery,/ In the middle of celery.”/ Let us celebrate Claire’s striking clarity./ She declares, “This word-pair shows disparity.”/ Vegetable photography by the author

second stanza:/ As to further examples, there’s cavity/ (Fill that space with this statement of gravity):/ ‘The witty wise cavy/ Waives the concept of gravy/ As a mark of meat-eating depravity.’/ (As hare-hunters might say, “Let’s be rabbity.”)

third stanza:/ Even Claire feels alive to the levity/ Of these terse verses known for their brevity./ We should muster a levy/ Or summon a bevy/ To attest to this wordplay’s longevity.

Authors’ Note: As there is no etymological commonality, wordpairs of similar appearance, but unrelated origins, may have disparate meanings and usages; this is certainly the case for:

celerity / celery,
gravity / gravy,
cavity / cavy,
and levity / levy, examples discussed in the above poem-of-the-day.