Tuesday 19 April 2022

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


Satire with Substituted Lyrics 
ORIGINAL SONG:  "Let It Be", The Beatles, 1970.
SATIRE 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

BACKGROUND INFO: At the height of the concern that President Trump 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 ply, 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)












Saturday 9 April 2022

Singable Saga: "The DELIGHTS of ANGLO-LATIN"

SINGABLE SAGA, derived from limerick lyrics.

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

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by Giorgio Coniglio, November 2016. These have been poetically published as a "brief saga" on the collaborative poetry website OEDILF and on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE.

SONG-LINKS: Check out other posts including the song "Latin Cat's Strut", 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.)