o) Uke-Song: "UNDER MY OWN STEAM", part #1, a geriatric odyssey

PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "I've Been Everywhere", by Lucky Starr, covered by Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Canadian Stompin' Tom Connors, et al. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2013.  

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

UNDER MY OWN STEAM, part #1

(to the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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

I like doing this song with progressive key changes, as in the Lucky Starr versions of the song; or if you like you can keep it simple like Johnny Cash did, and leave it all in the key of C.

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Uke-Song: "The BALLAD of RUDY GIULIANI, part #2" (the disappointment of Max Boot)

PARODY-SONG with UKULELE-Chords

ORIGINAL SONG: "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" , by Bruns and Blackburn, Walt Disney Studios 1954, anthem of the "Crockett craze". Several versions of the song were prominent on the Top Ten in 1955.

You-tube versions of the song by several performers are available via links on the previous post.  

SATIRE COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, June 2018. 

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

EXPLANATION:  Max Boot's opinion-editorial appeared in our local newspaper on May 8, 2018, under the heading "The long, disappointing fall of Rudy Giuliani". Here are the links to the particular newspaper column, and to the parody lyrics.
Other takes on Giuliani's statements about the Presidents' legal and personal imbroglios are given by Jennifer Rubin HERE, and Amy Sorkin HERE.

SONGLINK: Readers interested in this topic might also enjoy Giorgio's songs on these earlier blogposts ...

 "The Ballad of Rudy Giuliani, part #1"

 "Indiana Song"

  "Rosenstein"

  "Brennan's Tweet"

  "Dark Plans (Russian Hacking)"

  "First Year on the Range".

The BALLAD of GIULIANI, part#2

(to the tune of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett")

 

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.)

* Boot's article mentions other conservative leaders whom he admired and respected previously, including Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich and Scott Walker. 

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

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Limerick-Uke-Saga: "METABOLIC DELIRIUM"

 

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

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: For this post, we will use the melody for the iconic song "Summertime" from the hit Gershwin musical"Porgy and Bess".  

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. 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 (the 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". On certain occasions we have also used "Summertime" as here, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Santa Lucia" and Shania Twain's "Up" (minor modifications to scansion are required for some of these). 

SONG-LINKS: If interested, you could check Giorgio's other song-posts  (There are also many shorter illustrated verses, remaining under the poetry rubric that can be found on "Daily Edifying Nonsense", although these, too, are singable.) 

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