o) Uke-Song: "CAROLINA -- A REDAWNING" (parody medley)

POST #60
PASTICHE with PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG#1: "Buona Sera", Louis Prima
ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Carolina in the Morning", Al Jolson
ORIGINAL SONG#3: "Mona Lisa", Nat King Cole

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2014.

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

EXPLANATION: 

1) This trio of substituted parody lyrics can be thought of as a parody-medley or parodley 

2) The pacing for the first song works much better when "Capri" is pronounced Italian style with the accent on the first syllable. 

Performing Notes

GM7 = 0222; G6 = 0202; G#dim7; E5+7 = 1203; Am7 = 0000; Am6 = 2423;
C#dim7 = 0101/3434; D7+5 = 3223; Dm7 = 2213 


BUONA SERA  

(to the tune of "CAROLINA IN THE MORNING")

[G] What could make me [GM7] keener than to [G6] kiss you, signo[G#dim7] rina, ‘Buona [Am7] se[D7]ra’ ?

[Am] Say goodbyes to [E7+5] Napoli and [Am7] magic Isle of [Am6] Capri, ‘Buona [C#dim7] se[G]ra’

[C] Where the mist-clad [G] mountains [C] wrap around the [G] shore, [E7]

[A7] Sheltering village [D] fountains [B7] we [Em] snap as [Am7] we ex[D7]plore. [D7+5]

[G] Strolling with my [Gm7] ‘bella’, I’m a [G6] hell’va lucky [G#dim7] 
fella, signo[Am7]ri[D7]na

But [Am] jewellery shops are [E7+5] tourist traps, and [Am7] credit card got stuck [Am6] in bank ma[C#dim7]chi[G]n'a 
[G] If I had a stash of cash – a [Dm7] lot more eu[G7]ros,

We’d [C] linger over dinner, and here’s [A7] what I’d pro[D7]pose:

Let's [G] spring'a for that [Em] wedding ring'a, [G] after doing [Em] travelling, signo[A7]ri-[D7]i-i[G]na. 

MONA LISA

 (to the tune of "BUONA SERA")  

              G                         G6                  G        G6           

Are you snickering? Mona Lisa, men are asking -

          G                       G6                D    D7

La Gioconda – playful name for family;

            D                     D7                  D      D7

But it’s hard for us to question L. da Vinci,

                 D                       D7               G  G6      

When that old guy died so long ago in Italy.

             G                    G6                  G          G6

Are you smiling, Mona Lisa, to tempt lovers?

                  G                               G7                    C

Or are you puffed with child and have your little laugh?

                    Cm                                   G          G6

But from art critics we get speculating theory;

      D                        D7                         G           G6  

Leonardo’s face and yours – please, I get weary!

           G                              G7                    C         A7

In the meantime, we’ll just view you in the Louvre,

              G                      D7                       G    G6

Hang on in there, Mona Lisa, keep up the smile.

              D                     D7                       G    

Hang on in there, Mona Lisa, keep up the smile!

CAROLINA IN THE MORNING 

(to the tune of "MONA LISA")

        G                     GM7             G6         GM7
Carolina - it's much finer, in the morning,

             G                                                 D7 
Like my sweetie when I greet her before noon;

                 Am                     E7+5                   Am7       D7
Where the vines so fine entwine around her doorstep,

        Am                D7               G      G6   
I'd prefer to slide inside into her room.

         G                   GM7                   G6      GM7
I feel butterflies all flutter up, can’t ask her,

              G                          G7                 C      
Shall we stay and kiss your buttercup at dawn?

       Cm                              G
If I just had the lamp of Aladdin,

 G#dim      D7                          G           G7 
   I would stay there, and just play there.
              C               C#dim            G       G#dim

Are you wanting to stroll, whirly girlie,

                             Am7             D7                  G     G7 
Out where there’s pearly early dew upon the lawn?

              C               C#dim        G       G#dim
Are you wanting to stroll, whirly girlie,

                             Am7             D7                 G    G7 
Out where there’s pearly early dew upon the lawn?

               Cm D7  Am        D7 G

Squirrelly girlie, squirrelly gir-lie.

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Uke-Song: "BRENNAN'S TWEET", as might be sung by the Beatles

ORIGINAL SONG PARODY

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "Let It Be", The Beatles, 1970.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2018. 

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

EXPLANATION: At the height of the concern that the 45th US president might be tempted to stop the Russia-election-interference investigation by firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a tweet by John Brennan on Saturday, March 17, 2018, described in very definite terms the former CIA director's view of the current President.




BRENNAN'S TWEET

(to the tune of "Let It Be"; the Wikipedia article, as given above, shows the details of the tweet. )

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, too!)

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

You can play this song with only the simplest of chords - C, G, F, Am, (ignoring the 6th and 9th and Major 7th colouring), but the jazzier chords indicated are not that hard to play, and give the song a flavour more like the original - Ed.  

G6 = 0202;  FM7 = 5500;  G9 = 2232;  F9 = 0010 

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

(click on any verse-slide to enlarge and go to thumbnail mode)

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Limerick-Uke-Saga: "The DELIGHTS of ANGLO-LATIN"

UKE-SONG, derived from lyrics of a multi-verse limerick.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS:

A limerick: a verse that is singable

(If the diction's not flagrantly flingable);

Brings a humorous note

To a view you'd promote -- 

And it rings, like a bell ding-alingable.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, November 2016. After undergoing their rigorous collaborative editing process, these have been published as a "brief saga", a poetic entity of three or more stanzas, on the poetry website OEDILF (Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form); they have then been displayed as poetry lyrics on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE to review Giorgio's blogged poem.

SETTING WORDS TO MUSIC: Readers might be interested to know that of more than 1000 short poems that we have published, only 50 or so would qualify as "brief sagas". Although almost any limerick verse (e.g. the "Nantucket limericks") can be set to music, we were particularly interested in exploring this transitiioning for these multiverse poems that warrant the time to pick up your ukulele.

The tunes we have exploited in this effort include, not surprisingly "The Limerick Song".  But on occasion we have also used (minor modifications may be required) "Verse", "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime" and "Santa Lucia".  

SONG-LINKS: Check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with the use of Anglo-Latin and other classic language remnants, including "Latin Cat's Strut", "No Elements", "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", and "Singable Limericks: Using Greek Words" 

THE DELIGHTS OF ANGLO-LATIN 

(to the tune of "The Limerick Song") 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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

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