SONG with UKULELE CHORDS
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| Only occasional binomials show alliteration (e.g. 'one and only') |
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the second of nine in the series on Word-Pairs. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.
WORDPLAY LINK: For discussion of alliterative binomials on our sister blogsite "EDIFYING NONSENSE", click HERE (You can also find a simpler version of the parody-lyrics displayed without the chords, should you desire.)
UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT:
(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)
The chord-charts that we have used here have the alternate-line superscript format that many ukers find preferable.
Lehrer had adapted the melody from "The Major General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance". There are 3 somewhat different melodies/chord-sequences used in alteration through the GandS song, and in Lehrer's derived take-off.
My suggestion for the first 3 verses of the patter-list portion of this parody are shown here, but adapt them as you like! Incidentally, the Eb7 chord may look formidable to some -- just use the barred version of D7 one fret higher, than slide back for the D7 that follows!
Pick or strum the way you like, but I have enjoyed the 3,(12),4,(12) picking pattern, continuing through from line to line, except for an index finger 4-string flourish at the end of all the lines of the minor-tone verses, and in lines 3 and 4 of the other stanzas.
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).
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).
The remaining 6 slides in Lehrer's original song, "The Elements" can be viewed as a supplement to our parody-song-blogpost "No Elements". Click HERE to proceed.
BACK TO THE PARODY LYRICS (Simplified, no chords)
Word-pair partners start together, help each other, aid-abet,
With black and blue, and beg or borrow, grasp and grab, and gain and get.
Like bits and bytes, and bag and baggage, belles and beaus, and do or die,
And birds and bees, and bed'n'breakfast, born and bred, and crib and cry.
There’s cute and cuddly, cash or carry, big-bad-bold and beautiful,
Command-control, and bread and butter, dos and don’ts, and dutiful,
And clap and clamor, crass and crude, and drunken and disorderly,
And dear departed, dark and dank, and devil and the deep blue sea.
Command-control, and bread and butter, dos and don’ts, and dutiful,
And clap and clamor, crass and crude, and drunken and disorderly,
And dear departed, dark and dank, and devil and the deep blue sea.
There’s Dungeons-Dragons, dribs and drabs, and dusk 'til dawn, all day and night,
With each and every dine and dash there's fast and furious fight or flight.
And eyes and ears, and down and dirty, first and foremost, drink and drive,
And fun and frolic, friend or foe, and feast or famine, four or five.
With each and every dine and dash there's fast and furious fight or flight.
And eyes and ears, and down and dirty, first and foremost, drink and drive,
And fun and frolic, friend or foe, and feast or famine, four or five.
With form and function, fact or fiction, fling (past — 'flung')-flirta-ation,
And foppery and frippery, and leisure relaxa-ation,
For flee and fly, the flor' and fauna, flew through flue, the flies and fleas;
No farm nor fact'ry, fish nor fowl, give grins and giggles, life of ease.
And foppery and frippery, and leisure relaxa-ation,
For flee and fly, the flor' and fauna, flew through flue, the flies and fleas;
No farm nor fact'ry, fish nor fowl, give grins and giggles, life of ease.
There’s gruff and grim, and ghosts and goblins, Hell-high water, good as gold,
And guys and gals, and house and home, and hoot and holler, have and hold.
Too hot to handle, his and hers, and hems and haws, and heiress-heir,
Horse-hounds, and hale and hearty, hot and heavy, neither hide nor hair.
And guys and gals, and house and home, and hoot and holler, have and hold.
Too hot to handle, his and hers, and hems and haws, and heiress-heir,
Horse-hounds, and hale and hearty, hot and heavy, neither hide nor hair.
There's hassle-hurry, fire and fury, add insult to injury,
And judge and jury, jams and jellies, sugared Spice Girls -- gingery.
And Jack and Jill, and Jew and Gentile, juke and jive, and jeer and joke;
Kit and caboodle, king and country, kill or cure, and kith-kin-folk.
And judge and jury, jams and jellies, sugared Spice Girls -- gingery.
And Jack and Jill, and Jew and Gentile, juke and jive, and jeer and joke;
Kit and caboodle, king and country, kill or cure, and kith-kin-folk.
There's likely many others, but so far I can't imagine 'em -
They'd spread across the alphabet from A (aardvark) to zymogen.
They'd spread across the alphabet from A (aardvark) to zymogen.
This song represents the second set of parody-lyrics in a song-cycle dealing with word-pairs; the first song can be found on this blog one month ago..
You crave more patter-songs in the style of Tom Lehrer???
T.L. inspired a whole platterful of songs related to our interest in (i) grammatically paired words, including binomials and reduplications, and (ii) Latin loanwords. And, you should have your foot in the door, having mastered the complexities of singing and playing our above offering "Alliterative Binomials". So, enjoy singing and playing these as well !!!
T.L. inspired a whole platterful of songs related to our interest in (i) grammatically paired words, including binomials and reduplications, and (ii) Latin loanwords. And, you should have your foot in the door, having mastered the complexities of singing and playing our above offering "Alliterative Binomials". So, enjoy singing and playing these as well !!!
HOT LINKS to the SONGS in the WORD-PAIR CYCLE (Updated, 2021)
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