Uke-Song: A geriatric odyssey: "(Still) UNDER MY OWN STEAM", part #2

PARODY-LYRICS, a reprise

ORIGINAL SONG: "I've Been Everywhere", by Lucky Starr, covered by Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Stompin' Tom Connors, and others. 

PARODY COMPOSED: see part #1 of this parody-song by Giorgio Coniglio, June 2013. Further verses were added, to create this reprise in December 2015. 

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


  This song is dedicated to the memory of my father. Apart from a fierce determination to retain independent mobility, he was a highly responsible family man and bore little resemblance to the footloose and perhaps rascally hero of this piece. He was however an ardent admirer of rhyming patter, and would likely have enjoyed this song.

  You can view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Under My Own Steam"

STILL UNDER MY OWN STEAM, part #2

(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.

Dante's Inferno, Canto#2: "BEA WANTS TO KEEP HER EYE ON YOU"

Beatrix Beata,
 by D.G. Rossetti

PASTICHE WITH PARODY SONG-LYRICS.

ORIGINAL POEM: "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad, "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.

ORIGINAL SONG: "I Only Want To Be With You", Hawker and Raymonde, as recorded by Dusty Springfield, 1964.

 PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May, 2015. To return to the current post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

BEA WANTS TO KEEP HER EYE ON YOU

(to the tune of "I Only Want to Be with You")

HOT LINKS TO THE SATIRE-SONGS IN THIS SERIES:

Canto 1A: Dante’s Song

Canto 1B: The Tour-guide Known as Virgil

Canto 2: Bea Wants to Keep Her Eye On You (see below)

Canto 3: A Trip Down the Acheron Riviera

Canto 4: Limbo Rocks, Or Not

Canto 5A: Minos’s Tail-Twist

Canto 5B: Dante Sees the Pain of Lust

Canto 6: Dante, Go and See (Crayfish Étouffée) 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT: 
(Click on any chord-chart slide to advance to 'presentation/singalong' mode.)


The ukulele chord pattern is shown for the verses and for each 'chorus', although the lyrics change for each instance of the chorus-pattern.
Gm7 =0211;  Abdim7=1212.

INTRO: |chords for last 2 lines of verse| 

Compare with the original.......

I [F] don't know what it is that makes me [Dm] love you so,
I [F] only know I never want to  [Dm] let you go
'Cause [Bb] you started [C] something, oh [Gm7] can't you [C] see 
That [F] ever since we met you've had a  [Dm] hold on me
It [Gm7] hap[Am7]pens [Gm7] to [Abdim] be [C] true, 
I [Gm7] only want to [C] be with [F] you [Bb], [C7]

chorus: 
[C#] You stopped and smiled at me, and [F] asked me if I  [Bb] cared to [F] dance,
[C] I fell into your open [Am] arms, and [Dm7] I didn't stand a [G7] chance,
Now listen honey….…