Uke-Song: "LET US DO IT" (after Cole Porter) lyrics by Guest Parody-Artist Al Silver:

Cole Porter, composer

PARODY-LYRICS: GUEST-ARTIST

ORIGINAL SONG: "Let's Do It" 1928, Cole Porter 

PARODY COMPOSED: Al Silver, 2013, with permission. Al has been a frequent contributor to the AmIRight song-parody website.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: Return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (you can view Al's delightful lyrics along with some commentary (without images or chords) displayed HERE, or as originally displayed on the website at AmIRight.com Post "Let's Do IT"

Check out  Feb 2014 for another great parody by Al Silver.

Irene Bordoni,
 French chanteuse
star of Porter's musical
 "Paris", 1929

LET US DO IT 

(to the tune of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love")

Performing Notes

F6 = 2213; Gm7 = Bb6 = 0211; C+5 = 1003; Bbm6 = 0111; A7+5 = 0110 
Am7 = 0000; Eb7 = 3334; Ab = 5343; F7 = 2310 or 5556; Bb* = 7565 

INTRO: 

[F6] Birds [F] do it, [Gm7] bees [C7] do it;

[F] White House [F7] interns on their [Bb6] knees [Bbm6] do it;

[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Dm] [Gm7] 

On [C+5] grocery [F6] shelves [F] Keebler [Gm7] elves [C7] do it;
[F] Clergy [F7] praying by them[Bb6]selves [Bbm6] do it;

[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

[A7+5] Insects in [Dm] flight  late at [Bb6] night do it, [Am7]

But they raise such a [Cm] din. [F7]

[Bb*] Leno can't [Eb7] quite do it,

[Ab] 'Cause he uses his [Gm7] chin.  

[C+5] Seigfried and [F6] Roy [F] boy on [Gm7] boy [C7] do it;

[F] Quakers with a [F7] minimum of [Bb6] joy [Bbm6] do it;

[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

Compare this with the original......

[F6] Birds [F] do it, [Gm7] bees [C7] do it;
[F] Even [F7] educated  [Bb6] flees  [Bbm6] do it; 
[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Dm] [Gm7] 

In [C+5] Spain the [F6] best [F] upper [Gm7] sets [C7] do it; 
[F] Lithu[F7]anians and [Bb6] Letts [Bbm6] do it; 
[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

The Dutch in [Dm] old Amster[Bb6]dam do it, [Am7]

Not to mention the [Cm] Finns. [F7]

[Bb*] Folks in Si[Eb7]am do it,

[Ab] Think of Siamese [Gm7] twins. 

 [C+5] Some [F6] Argen[F]tines without [Gm7] means [C7] do it;
[F] People say in [F7] Boston even [Bb6] beans [Bbm6] do it;  
[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

Uke-Song: "DARK SCHEMES" (Ochi Chornye) -- hacking, as extolled by the Red Army Choir

Political parody
ORIGINAL SONG (music): "Ochi Chornye (Dark Eyes)", poem written in Russian by Ukrainian poet Hrebinka in 1843, set to music in 1884; recorded by Al Jolson, Django Reinhart, Louis Armstrong, Red Army Choir, Fyodor Chaliapin, Ivan Rebroff etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2018. 

Click HERE to return to the current post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", and to see the lyrics displayed without the chord indications.

SONGLINK: The same original song was used some time ago as the musical base for "PARASIT-ody", a bit of puffery in which the lyrics for an original song are substituted into a second song's tune. See "Ochi Chornye (Brown-Eyed Girl").  

 

DARK SCHEMES (RUSSIAN HACKING)

(to the tune of "Dark Eyes" ("Ochi Chornye")

UKULELE FRIENDLY VERSION (and guitar, too!)

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

Chord specifics for C-tuned uke:

D7 = 0202 or 2223;  Gm = 0231;  Cm = 0333 

At this point you might wish to return to the post 'Singable Lyrics: Novel Melodies for Limericks' HERE. 


ORIGINAL SONG
(Russian version per Chaliapin, and English translation)
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