Uke-Song: "WHILE MY UKE WORDLESSLY SINGS", a tribute to Jake

SONG with UKULELE-CHORDS

                       

ORIGINAL SONG: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison, and recorded by the Beatles for their 1968 album "The Beatles". 

JAKE'S RENDITION: Jake Shimabukuro had started playing instrumental ukulele as a band member, but in 2002 broke into a solo career. In 2006, a video of Jake's virtuoso rendition of the Beatles song became one of the first to 'go viral' on that site, and has accumulated 16 million hits. The author of this blog has been privileged to attend three Jake concerts in the last 5 years; recently these have included guitar collaborators and a few vocals, but the emphasis remains on instrumental ukulele. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January 2019, as "While My Uke Wordlessly Sings".

George Harrison

WORDPLAY LINK: See further discussion on our sister blogsite "DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE", You canfind a simpler version of the parody-lyrics displayed without the chord-indications, should you desire. Click HERE.

WHILE MY UKE

 WORDLESSLY SINGS

(to the tune of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps")  

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, too!)

Ukulele(C-tuned) specifics:

AM7 = 0030 (or 0000);  Am6 = 2020;  FM7 = 5500;  D = 2220;  E = 4442;

E7 = 1202;  C#m7 = 4444;  Fm = 2120;  C#m = 6444;   Bbm = 4222.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

Uke-Song: "ROBBIE BURNS' DAY", as might be sung by Dean Martin

 

PARODY-SONG: "Dean Martin Sings Robbie Burns Day" 2024, a parody pastiche with lyrics by Giorgio Coniglio, substituted to "That's Amore", the Dean Martin 1953 classic.   

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December, 2018, updated from earlier blogposts, and with improved verse-charts. 

Explanatory Notes: Robert Burns, born 1759, became Scotland’s "national poet", and a cultural icon at home and among Scottish diaspora around the world. In his short life - he died at age 37 -  he wrote hundreds of well-loved poems and songs; the most famous is Auld Lang Syne, traditionally sung on Hogmanay (New Year's Eve). Robbie Burns Day is celebrated on his birthday, January 25, often with a Burns Night supper. 

Burns' best-loved poems include "To a Mouse", "To a Louse", "Tam o' Shanter", "Parcel o' Rogues", and "Address to a Haggis".

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE. 

ROBBIE BURNS DAY

(to the tune of "That's Amore")

C-tuned ukulele specifics:
Fm = 1013;  Bbm = 3111;  Bbm7 = 1111;  Bdim7 = 1212;  A7 = 0100  

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

Click directly on any slide to view the thumbnails at the bottom of the page.  You can then use them to easily go back and forth between the parody-version and the original lyrics.