PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the fourth of nine in the series on Word-Pairs.
To see the lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to the corresponding date's post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE.
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Most binomial pairs are not rhyming |
For more fun, proceed to the next blogpost "Rhyming Binomials, M to Z"
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.
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 !!!
1a. "Alliterative Binomials, part#1"
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 !!!
1a. "Alliterative Binomials, part#1"
(2a. "Rhyming Binomials, part#1")
3. "A Lesson about Reduplications" (not a patter-song)
4a. "Reduplications, part#1"
4b. "Reduplications, part#2",
6. "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", Latin adjectival listing
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