Monday 19 October 2020

Uke-Song: "RHYMING BINOMIALS, M to Z"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

ORIGINAL SONG: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.


PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the fifth of nine in the series on Word-Pairs. You can find the links to the previous songs at the bottom of the post. 

WORDPLAY LINK: For discussion of rhyming 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.) 

(A reprise from Post #90, 24 August, 2015)






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
















You crave more patter-songs in the style of Tom Lehrer???
T.L. inspired a whole platterful of songs related to our interest in grammatically paired words, including binomials and reduplications. And, you should have your foot in the door, having mastered the complexities of singing and playing our above offering "Rhyming Binomials"So, enjoy trying these as well !!!     
1a. "Alliterative Binomials, part#1"
3.  "A Lesson about Reduplications" (not a patter-song)
5.  "No Elements", 3rd declension Latin nouns
6.  "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", Latin adjectival listing, scheduled for April 2024.