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".
ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS: Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, October 2023. 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 transitioning 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", "Summertime" (as here) and "Santa Lucia".
SONG-LINKS: Check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with the use of Anglo-Latin and other classic language remnants, including "Latin Cat's Strut", "No Elements", "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", and "Singable Limericks: Using Greek Words"
Click on any chord chart to enlarge and enter thumbnail mode (the slides for both the parody and the original versions can then be enlarged and viewed in any order).
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