Swing-Era Uke-Song: "LATIN CAT'S STRUT"

PARODY LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Satin Doll". Music written in 1953 by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my satin doll." 

 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2017. 
Note that the original idea of for a set of limerick verses devoted to Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Greek had arisen with an earlier poetic concoction, a 'brief saga' that you can review HERE. (or in singable form HERE). 

TECHNICAL NOTES: The call 'switcherooney' at the end of the chorus has become an indispensable part of the lyrics of this song which appears to switch keys, but was written to end in the key of C.
For ease of singing, I have transposed it up a half-octave. 

 

LATIN CAT'S STRUT

(to the tune of "Satin Doll")

add a 

o) 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. 

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 rhyming binomials  click HERE. 

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"

1b. "Alliterative Binomials, part#2"

2a. "Rhyming Binomials, part#1"

2b. "Rhyming Binomials, part#2"

3.  "A Lesson about Reduplications" (not a patter-song)

4a. "Reduplications, part#1"

4b. "Reduplications, part#2",

5.  "No Elements", 3rd declension Latin nouns

6.  "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", Latin adjectival listing, scheduled for April 2024.