Wednesday, 29 December 2021

o) Nostalgic Uke-Song, "IN DAYS of YORK", Canadian elementary school reunion


PARODY-LYRICS with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPININGS:  "The Maple Leaf Forever", by Alexander Muir, modified lyrics by Vladimir Radian 1997.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013, updated 2015, 2017, and 2018.t
For more explanation of the origin of "IN DAYS OF YORK", should you be interested (and to see the lyrics without the chord indications), return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE

SONGLINKS: For other nostalgic takes on Canada's national hymns, you can view (and sing along with) ...
January 2015,  Flight of the Loonie




            

 




Grade 8 classes
Cedarvale Public School, 1958
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You can also view these lyrics and commentary (without images or chords)  displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Canadian Reunion"













CANADIAN REUNION

(to the tune of "The Maple Leaf Forever")























Ann Murray sings
Maple Leaf Gardens
February, 2013
Maple Leaf Gardens
Carlton Street, Toronto


        
















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

















The reunion committee meets years later (November 2018)
 at Toronto's Le Paradis Restaurant
Present (left to right) R.R., , D.M-R., H.A., M.G., G.C.-H., E.K.; A.G. (photographer)


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Sunday, 19 December 2021

Mexican Uke-Song: "CLOTHING MOTH HAT-DANCE", in the Style of Allan Sherman


Allan Sherman
1924-1973
PARODY-LYRICS with Ukulele Chords

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Mexican Hat Dance" (spoof) Allan Sherman, 1963. The original music, based on traditional Mexican dance-forms from the central and southern part of the country, is also known as "Jarabe Tapatío"; the music, unaccompanied by lyrics, is a typical repertoire item for mariachi.  

LIMERICK VERSE:  Two original poems composed by Giorgio Coniglio, 2017-2018, provided the fodder for these song lyrics.  They can be found  readily on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"
A mariachi band
Kensington Market, Toronto
August 2018.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2018. 

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

SONGLINK: The melody and lyrical adaptation for Mexican Hat Dance had been  used previously by G.C. as the base song for "Dante's 'Inferno' Canto#5a: MINOS'S TAIL TWIST".




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






















ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS





















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