UKE-SONG, derived from limerick lyrics.
ORIGINAL SONG: 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 "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 dealing with avian wildlife, most of which involve the conversion of limerick-based poems to singable format. These include "The Cormorant Rookery", "Avian Digestion", and "Evolution of the Domestic Turkey". (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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