o) Uke-song: "MERGERWOCKY", A Lewis Carroll tune, dedicated to Dr. J. J.

ORIGINAL POEM: "Jabberwocky", Lewis Carroll, 1871; the poem was included in the children's novel "Through the Looking Glass" in 1871.    

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2014. Some changes in the lyrics from the published version of Mergerwocky were necessary to fit the target song.

POETIC PARODY LYRICS:  "Mergerwocky", G. Hurwitz, a poem published in the Western News, 2000, with a more recent version reposted on our sister blog "EDIFYING NONSENSE" with the author's permission. This poetic parody draws inspiration from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "The House of the Rising Sun" as recorded by "The Animals" 1964, and covered by many others. The original song was a "traditional" folk-piece, first adapted by Roy Acuff, also recorded as a folksong by Woodie Guthrie, Lead Belly, the Weavers, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2014. 

For more explanation of the origin of this song, should you be interested (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications), return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE. 

In a recent post, we fantasized that the rock-band "The Animals" sang the words of the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky" as an extension of their  1964 hit version of the American folk ballad "House of the Rising Sun", using the same rock format  (in a driving 12/12/beat). Dr.J.J., the target of many dedications on these blog-pages, loved doing spoofs based on that iconic pop-tune. 

The introductory verses of this spoof were written more recently, but our 2014 parody-version of the folksong, relating to hospital restructuring in the province of Ontario, derives from an earlier period starting in the 1990s.

 

 

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