o) Divine Comedy, Inferno: Canto#6, "CRAYFISH ÉTOUFFÉE", ("DANTE, GO and SEE")

"The Circle of the Gluttons"
W. Blake

UKE-SONG: PASTICHE WITH PARODY SONG-LYRICS

ORIGINAL POEM:  Canto#6 of "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Baby, Please Don't Go", Big Joe Williams 1935, popularized by Muddy Waters, used here primarily for music and meter.

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

EXPLANATION: In the Third Circle, Dante sees the fate of gluttons like his friend from Florence named ‘Ciacco’ (the equivalent of ‘Piggy’). No fire used for torture here; the climate sounds like Toronto in March. The poor souls confined here in the freezing mud are tormented by a demonic three-headed dog, Cerberus. I took some liberties with Ciacco’s tale; in the original, he discusses the complex politics of 14th century Florence. The details I provided re Ciacco's gluttonous exploits are imagined. Eschatology is the part of theology concerned with final judgment and the destiny of the soul.  Étouffée is a delicious Louisiana dish of seafood, usually crayfish, in a Cajun roux sauce.

"Cerberus", W. Blake

New Orleans style crayfish etouffée

DANTE, GO AND SEE 

(to the tune of "Baby Please Don't Go")

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o) Divine Comedy, Inferno: Canto#5b, "DANTE VIEWS THE PAIN OF LUST"

"Paolo and Francesca Discovered"
painting by Ingres

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.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Dance Me To The End Of Love",  Leonard Cohen, 1984.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015. 

To return to the related post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE. 

                                                                                  

Inferno, Canto#5b: 

DANTE VIEWS THE PAIN OF LUST

(to the tune of "Dance Me to the End of Love") 

Italy in the late Medieval Period

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT: 
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Limerick-Uke-Saga, "LINGUISTICALLY"

 

UKE-SONG, derived from lyrics of a multi-verse limerick.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS:

A limerick: a verse that is singable

(If the diction's not flagrantly flingable);

Brings a humorous note

To a view you'd promote -- 

And it rings, like a bell ding-alingable.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, 2024. 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 transitiioning 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", as here.  But on occasion we have also used (minor modifications may be required) "Verse", "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime" and "Santa Lucia".  

SONG-LINKS: Check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with wordplay HERE. 

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