o) Uke-Song: "BROKEN ARROW", reminiscence of cold-war near-catastrophes

SAD ANTI-WAR SATIRE:

ORIGINAL SONG:  "Desperado", The Eagles, 1973. "Desperado" is also the name of the second studio album recorded by the band. 

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2018. 

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SONGLINK: The same tune was used as the vehicle for a parody song posted in 2014 entitled "Macadamias".

BROKEN ARROW

(to the tune of "Desperado")


UKULELE-FRIENDLY VERSION (and guitar, too!)

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Specifics for C-tuned ukulele:
Am7 = 0000 (or 0030);  Gm6 = 0201;  Bm7 = 2222;  E7sus = E11= 2202; A7 = 0100;  F#m = 2120; A7sus = 2230

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

Divine Comedy, Inferno: Canto#5a, "MINOS'S TAIL-TWIST"

UKE-SONG: 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. 

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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).