s,o) Uke-Song (Guest Parodist), "WHOLE FOODS", parody lyrics by Al Silver

PARODY-LYRICS: GUEST-ARTIST

ORIGINAL SONG: "Blue Moon" 1934,  Rodgers and Hart, covered by Billy Eckstine, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, The Marcels etc.

PARODY-LYRICS COMPOSED: Al Silver, January 2013, copied here with permission, and with a few minor changes. Al has been a frequent contributor to the AmIRight song-parody website.

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

You can view Al's delightful lyrics along with some commentary (without images or chords)  displayed on that website at AmIRight.com Post "Whole Foods"
Check out some of our other posts  for great parody-lyrics contributed by Al Silver.

WHOLE FOODS

(to the tune of "Blue Moon")

Whole Foods
You saw me sickly and thin
Without a blush on my cheek
Without a glow to my skin.

Whole Foods
You knew you just had to heed me
You saw the way you should lead me
And had the health food to feed me.

And then I saw there was a cornucopia
Of all the nuts and grains I could consume
(I know I have to use the rhyme “Utopia”)
And when I ate, my cheek began to bloom.

Whole Foods
Now I’m not sickly and thin
Without a blush on my cheek
Without a glow to my skin.

I ate organic goat cheese and quinoa
Wheatberry, kale, seaweed and tofu, too
Some dingleberries shipped fresh from Samoa
And pomegranates flown in from Peru.

Whole Foods
My LDL is now 5
Systolic down to 16
I think I’m barely alive.

Whole Foods
My LDL is now 5
I have a blush on my cheek
But I am barely alive.

A cornucopia

Performing Notes

C6 = 0000; Dm7 = 2213; Ab = 5343; Bb7 = 1211; Eb = 0331
        
Whole [C6] Foods [Am] [F]
You saw me [G7] sickly and [C6] thin [Am] [F] 
Without a [G7] blush on my [C6] cheek [Am] [F]
Without a [G7] glow to my [C6] skin [Am] [F] [G7].

...

And then I [Dm7] saw there was a [G7] cornu[C6]copia [Am]
Of all the [Dm7] nuts and grains I [G7] could con[C6]sume
(I know I [Ab] have to use the [Bb7] rhyme “U[Eb]topia”)
And when I [G7] ate, my cheek  be[Dm7]gan to [G7] bloom. [G7+5]

Uke-Song: "GET ME ROGER STONE", in the style of Neil Young

                                                                                 

SONG with UKULELE-CHORDS

 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Heart of Gold" 1971, written and recorded by legendary Canadian songwriter-performer Neil Young.

For those interested, the original song is shown in ukulele-friendly form at the bottom of the post. BTW, if you play guitar or some other stringed instrument, it should be easy to transpose these charts to the key of your choice (or send me a note in the Comments section). 

PARODY COMPOSED:  Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, February 2019 (a sequel of 2 verses was added to the original concoction later in the month). 

To see the lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to the corresponding date's post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE. 

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Further details re the song's subject and his relationship with the narrator can be found at...
(i) a biographic Wikipedia article, "Roger Stone",
(ii) a news article about Stone's unusual behaviour following his indictment by the Mueller investigation on multiple charges, and 
(iii) an article about the highly-praised 2017 Netflix film "Get Me Roger Stone", that documents Stone's longterm role as advisor to Donald Trump. 

GET ME ROGER STONE - the song

(to the tune of "Heart of Gold"  by Neil Young) 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, mandolin, banjo etc., too!)

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

SONGLINKS: Readers interested in this topic might also enjoy Giorgio's songs found on the folowing posts on this lyrics blog. (Click to enjoy them).

  #182: "Anagram-Lyrics for the Fourth of July"
  #180 "The Ballad of Rudy Giuliani, part #2"
  #179 "The Ballad of Rudy Giuliani, part #1"

  #178 "Indiana Song"

  #175 "Rosenstein"

  #173 "Brennan's Tweet"

  #169 "Dark Schemes (Russian Hacking)"

  #158 "First Year on the Range".

WORDPLAY LINK: You can also find some related satire, without the need to sing, on our wordplay blog "Edifying Nonsense". To get started there, you might enjoy the blogpost "Slogans for the Occasion".  

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
(Click on any verse-box slide to enlarge and proceed through the thumbnail mode to review the original and parody verses.)