s,o) Uke-Song: Homage to Ed Burtynsky: "The VIEW OF EARTH", homage to Ed Burtynsky

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "The Book of Love", 1999 by Monotones; best known cover by Peter Gabriel 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013.

PHOTOS: Edward Burtynsky website

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. 

With the recent  book “Water” and film “Watermark”, Edward Burtynsky (“Manufactured Landscapes”) has used aerial photography to further document extensive degradation of our planet’s water-resource. As Burtynsky brings a Canadian sensitivity to the issue, I have used a few French words in these lyrics. eaux, water (pl) and haut, high, are pronounced as ‘oh’. autrui, others, and  ouïe, ouch!  rhyme with ‘see’.

VIEW OF EARTH  

(to the tune of "The Book of Love")

To view our Earth is disconcerting;

Dammed place may land up dry as bones;

With overuse and expo- nential

Expansion of industrial zones.

But,  eyes high I spy ......
Icefloes’ demise from polar seas;

And eaux-----oh those emotive

Haut-photos of Burty-ynsky’s!

Ice-caps dislodging, likely toasted;

Will flood the coastlines, raise the seas;

Less rain on heights, our food-stores threatened; 

Our stewardship’s a travesty.

Water-woes….. we owe to no one

Only ourselves, not autrui;
Ouïe! unwilling eyes we open

Edward’s lament-landscapes we see.

Parched Colorado River delta

Flow diverted – raise some herds –

Fish and amphibians find no shelter; 

Plundered profits, pain deferred.

Manufactured western suburbs,

Life floats on dwindling aquifers;

Next door the ancient ghostly remnants

Of cultures faltered, disappeared.

And drought------ no doubt about it

We’re drifting to that turn of things.

What clout .....   to save our offspring ?

 - Cherish each drop that wetting wrings.

Our leaders opt for obfuscation
A short-term outlook is obscene-

A final geologic  e - ra;

Warm welcome to Anthropocene !

And whoa! ….... those emotive

Views captured by Burty-ynsky!
Decry .…..... and why not try

Avoid our man-made destiny ?

(Rit.)
 The news from Earth is disconcerting………….








PERFORMING NOTES:

Alternate verses use the isolated hit and continuous strumming formats.
Cs4 = 0013; G7s4 = 0213; 

Intro: |C  Cs4|G   C:| x2

[C]!  To view our [Cs4]! Earth is [G7s4]! discon[C]!certing;

[C]  Dammed place may [Cs4]! land up [G]! dry as [C]! bones;

[C]!  With over[Cs4]!use and [G7s4]! expo[Am]!nential

[C]!  Expansion [Cs4] of in[G]!dustrial [C]! zones.

But, [C] eyes [Cs4] high I [G7s4] spy---[C] ----
[C] Icefloes’ de[Cs4]mise from [G] polar [C] seas;

And [C] eaux-- [Cs4]---oh [G7s4] those e[Am]motive

[C] Haut-photos [Cs4] of Bur[G7s4] ty-yn[C]sky’s!

........

[C]! The news from [Cs4]! Earth is [G7s4]! 
           Rit. discon[Am]!certing………….

s,o) Tropical Uke-Song: "NIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR MUKLUKS" -- Kokomo revisited

POST #73
PASTICHE of 2 ORIGINAL SONGS: parodysitism??

RECIPIENT SONG (music): "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover", Paul Simon, 1975.

INVADING SONG (lyrics): words and themes borrowed liberally from "Kokomo" 1988, as performed by the Beach Boys.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February, 2015. 

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. 
(You can also view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords, at the  parody-lyrics site where they were originally posted online)  at AmIRight.com Post""

Imagine that Paul Simon sang about a mid-winter  escape to the Beach Boys' mythic Caribbean destination of Kokomo; with a nod to recent weather reports. 

NIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR MUKLUKS

(to the tune of "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover")

“Your problem is worsened by this nasty winter freeze,

Let's get away to moonlit nights off the Florida Keys.

We’ll defy gravity, perfect our chemistry;

There are some nifty ways to leave your mukluks”.

She said, “Escape it all for a great place to go.

And by jet we’ll get way down there fast, then we can take it slow,

Everybody knows a dreamy place like Kokomo –

There are some nifty ways to leave your mukluks.”

Nifty ways to leave your mukluks.

All-inclu’ in Aru’, Lou

Bake in Jamaic’, Jake

A month in Bermud’, dude

Just get ourselves warm.

Few weeks in Baham’, Sam,

Don’t need lots of lead-time,

Mellow Montego, Joe

No snow – Largo Key.

       

Feel mystique -  Martinique, Zeke
Glimpse Port-au-Prince, Vince

Survey Montserrat, Matt

Bodies in hot sand.

Lounge in St Kitts, Fritz

Rhythm of a steel-drum band

Hop bars in Negril, Bill

And get yourself tanned.

She said, “It peeves me so, car battery has died.

And our street has not been plowed so all you’d do is slip and slide."

I said ”Snow day -  there’s little open, so nowhere else to ride –

Back to those nifty ways.”

She said, “Let’s try a snowy afternoon delight

Then we could drink some hot toddies and dream of those tropic nights.”

And because I kept on shivering, I called to book a flight,

I yearned for nifty ways to leave my mukluks.

Tour the bay by kayak, Jack

Get a new tan, Stan

Cruise to St Croix, Roy

Get keen on Holguín.

Surf Los Cabos, Gus

Don’t need skates or puck much

Explore cays and keys, Lee

mukluks -  seldom thought of
 as sensuous

Just pack your sun-screen.

Scuba-dive off Arub’, Stu

Flake in Jamaic’, Jake

Swim nude in Bermud’, dude

Live what Beach Boys sing.

On lam in Baham’, Sam,

No need to trudge slush much

Just toke in Mo'Bay, mam'

A 'Kokomo' fling.

Performing Notes: 

Only a few harder chords here:
G6 = 0,1,0,1; FM7 =2,4,1,0 (5,5,0,0 will also do it) ; E9 = 1,2,2,2; G#dim7 = 1,2,1,2; Eb6 = 3,3,3,3

[Am] “Your problem is [G6] worsened by this [FM7] nasty winter [E9] freeze, [E7]

Let's [Am] get away to [G#dim7] moonlit nights [B7] off the Florida Keys.

[Am] We’ll defy [G6] gravity, per[FM7]fect our chemis[E9]try; [E7]

There are some [Am] nifty [Dm7] ways to leave your [Am] mukluks”.

All-inclu’ in [C] Aru’, Lou

Bake in Ja[Eb6]maic’, Jake

A month in Ber[F7]mud’, dude

Just get ourselves [C] warm.

Few weeks in Baham’, Sam,

Don’t need lots of [Eb6] lead-time,

Mellow Monte[F7]go, Joe

No snow – Largo [C] Key.