Tuesday 19 September 2023

Dante's Inferno, Canto#5a: "MINOS'S TAIL-TWIST"


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: "The Mexican Hat Dance", Allan Sherman, 1963. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.  To return to the current post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE


Resuming at Canto 5 of “The Inferno” after a considerable pause.... Dante, guided by the Roman poet Virgil is on a mission presumably sanctioned by heavenly powers, that leads them progressively further downward into the Circles of Hell.


MINOS’S TAIL-TWIST

(to the tune of "The Mexican Hat Dance")


UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT: 

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ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
(Click on any slide to enlarge, and to enter thumbnail mode, comparing the original song to the parody).