Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Wordy Uke-Song: "REDUPLICATIONS, L to Z"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.
Hawaiian sign

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio,  2015.  This song is the eighth of nine in the series on Word-Pairs

PARODY-WORDLINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

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                             Ta-Dah !!!

Be sure to continue with  Alliterative Binomials part #2.


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). 


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 loanwordsAnd, 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"
3.  "A Lesson about Reduplications" (not a patter-song)
(4b. "Reduplications, part#2")
5.  "No Elements", 3rd declension Latin nouns
6.  "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", Latin adjectival listing


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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