o) Uke-Song, "FLAKING OUT IS WHAT THEY DO", paean to vaso-vagal syncope

doo-wap version
1962 release

PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", Neil Sedaka - recorded in two versions , 1962 (classic doo-wap version), and 1975 (slow-ballad version).

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.

https://www.sillysongsandsatire.com/2014/12/carolina-faintly-porno.html
(You can also view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords, at the  parody-lyrics site where they were originally posted online)  at AmIRight.com Post""

EXPLANATION:  Health-care professionals who have to inject patients know that the fittest looking specimens, often muscular young men, are the most likely to faint with an injection, particularly if they stare at the needle. This phenomenon is well-known in Nuclear Medicine departments, where an intravenous injection is required before most scans. The injections are not technically challenging, as these out-patients have easy veins to access, but the somewhat unexpected result may disrupt the day’s schedule. 

“Sinus brady” is jargon for sinus bradycardia, a slow but regular and innocuous pattern on the electrocardiogram (ECG).

CPR is an acronym for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. 

Atropine, an injectable medicine to increase heart-rate may be used as part of resuscitation procedures. 

Syncope (pron. sin'-copy) means a faint.  

Vaso-vagal, a difficult but commonly-used term, refers to vascular effects (low blood pressure etc.) mediated by the vagus nerve.

FLAKING OUT IS WHAT THEY DO

(to the tune of "Breaking up is Hard To Do")

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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


AbM7 = 1333;  E7+5 = 1203; Am7 = 0000; D9 = 2423;
Dm7 = 2213; G7+5 = 0312; Fdim7 = 1212; Cm7 = 3333; BbM7 = 3210; Bb6 = 0211; Bbm7 =1111; Eb7 = 3334.

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HOTLINKS TO OTHER MEDICAL-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

Adenoma

Avitaminoses 

As We Nuke It

Flaking Out is What They Do (see below)

Mel and His Hernia

Mergerwocky

Off-Patent Drug#19

Prostate Cancer

Reflux Romp

R-I-C-E

The Uniqueness of Nuclear

The Valgus and the Carbuncle

Under My Own Steam part#1

Under My Own Steam part#2

Where Has Neurosyphylis Gone?

...AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS

Singable Limerick-Medley #17: Nuclear Cardiology

Singable Limerick-Medley #20: Medical Imaging

 

Uke-Song: "ROSENSTEIN", as might be crooned by Glen Campbell

Satire with Substituted Lyrics 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "Galveston", by Jimmy Webb, popularized by Glen Campbell, 1969.
Enjoy Campbell's great guitar solo HERE on Youtube. 

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, April 2018. 

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. 

SONGLINK: Readers interested in this topic might also enjoy posts entitled  "Brennan's Tweet", and "First Year on the Range".

A link to info about the present debacle. 

http://www.newsweek.com/devin-nunes-impeach-rosenstein-wray-viewed-document-883499

ROSENSTEIN

(to the tune of "Galveston")

  

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of justice, January 2017 to present.

Robert Mueller, Special Counsel, appointed by Rosenstein, May 2017, to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.

James Comey, FBI Director, 2013-2017. His firing instigated Mueller's appointment as special counsel. His book "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership" was released May 1, 2018.

Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney General, appointed by the president in 2016

Michael Cohen, personal lawyer and fixer, implicated in the payment of hush funds to Daniels and others.

Stormy Daniels, porn film star and director, seeking relief from a non-disclosure agreement arranged by Cohen just prior to the election in 2016, in relation to her claim of a tryst with D.T. 

Steve Bannon, senior advisor, formerly CEO of the alt-right outlet "Breitbart News"; filled the newly created position 'White House Chief Strategist' for 7 months until an apparent falling-out with the President. 

Devin Nunes, Republican congressman from California since 2003; chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence 2015-2018; unrelenting harline supporter. 

Paul Ryan, House Republican leader and Speaker, 2015-2018, who announced his pending resignation, putatively for family reasons, at the time of the initial furore over the search of Cohen's home and offices. 

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.)

CM7 = 0002;  Eb = 0331;   Gm = 0231;  Bb = 3321.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS 

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Limerick-Uke-Saga: "CAREERS"

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

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

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, August 2022. 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" (as here), "Summertime" and "Santa Lucia".  

LINKS: Check out all of Giorgio's poems dealing with the grammatical entity "pluralia tantum" by clicking HERE.

 

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