Thursday 19 November 2020

Uke-Song: "LESSON about REDUPLICATIONS"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

...
... in a fallout shelter?
ORIGINAL SONG: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.


PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. Originally a poem, the construct developed into a song, and is now the sixth 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 further discussion of reduplications 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, i.e. the original poetic nature of the piece can be revisited.) 

(A reprise from July, 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 significant platterful of songs related to our interest in grammatically pairedwords,,including binomials and reduplications. And, you should have your foot in the door, having mastered the complexities of singing and playing our above offering "The Uniqueness of Nuclear" 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.



Monday 9 November 2020

Uke-Song: "TURKEY LEFTOVERS", holiday pa(i)rody, rehashed

 SONG with UKULELE CHORDS:  a seasonal parody from 2015, revisited


SUBSTITUTE LYRICS subbed into 2 original songs, a pairody


ORIGINAL SONG#1: "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts...), written by Wells and Tormé  in 1944, and recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio 1946.

ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Good King Wenceslas", John Mason Neale 1853, but often now mistakenly referred to as 'traditional'. Neale's piece, (based on accounts of the Bohemian Wenceslas legend, and a 13th century 'spring-carol' tune) was highly criticized in the 1920s as "ponderous moral doggerel"; you might want to check the interesting description in the Wikipedia essay.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January, 2015, currently updated with new verse-charts, improved fonts and an epilogue including slides with ukulele/guitar chords for the original songs. 
  
SONGLINK: For another parody on  "The Christmas Song",  see our earlier posting "The Cynic's Song" here.
































SUGGESTIONS for UKULELE-PLAYERS

There are some difficult jazz chords here, but they sound beautiful, and are worth the effort!

Specifics for ukulele (C-tuning):
Bm7 = 2222;  C#m7 = 4444;  E7 = 1202;  Em7 = 0202;  C#7+5 =2112; F#m = 2120;  Dm6 = 2212;  D#m7 = 3324;  C#M7 = 1113;  CM7 = 0002;
A9= 0102;  DM7 = 2224;  D6 = 2222;  Dm7 = 2213;  C6 = 0000;  Fdim7 = 1212; G#7 = 1323;  Cdim7 = 2323;  AM7 = 1100;  F#7sus = 6677.


ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
(click on any verse-slide to enlarge the entire series and compare the original songs' verses with the parody version. Move back and forth using the thumbnails at the bottom)