SONG with UKULELE CHORDS
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the third 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", the first part of our mini-lexicon with listings from A through K, click HERE (and explore the accompanying ukulele-chords, should you desire.)
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).
And lend or lease, last (but not least), and lords and ladies, mock and mime.
Out and about, there's odds and evens, one and only, on thin ice.
There's prince and pauper, prim and proper, pen and paper, peas in pod,
And pig in poke, and poems and prose, and pots and pans, and poke and prod.
(In Britain, they’ve been smitten with odd variants like 'rule the roast'),
And pain and pleasure, quake and quiver, quirks and quarks, and rant and rave,
And rough and ready, right or wrong, no rhyme or reason, scratch and save.
Restore-reset, and rock and roll, and rest and rehab, rod and reel,
And rags to riches, rules and regs, and search and seizure, sign and seal.
And signs and symptoms, short but sweet, and sink or swim, and run-arounds,
— From sea to shining sea there’s stress and strain among the sights and sounds.
The Stars and Stripes, once spick and span, show slow but steady slip and slide;
And toil and trouble, trials and tribulations, trick or treat, and tried
But true, and tea for two, unloved-unwanted, also tit for tat,
And thick or thin, and toss and turn, and tots and toddlers, this-or-that.
There’s tarts and tortes, and truck and trailer, sugar-spice and top and tail,
And vice and virtue, vim and vigor, wax and wane, and weep and wail,
And wash and wear, and wild and woolly, warp and woof, and where or when,
Within-without, and whys and wherefores, watching-waiting, wild and woolly, yearn and yen.
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 !!!
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| of the original songs in our parody suite about word-pairs 7/9 pay tribute to the work of Tom Lehrer |
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