Uke-Song: "ICELANDIC SUMMERTIME SAGA", a faux Gershwin-era folk-medley

PARODY-SONG MEDLEY with UKULELE CHORDS (a post updated from 2018)

MUSICAL UNDEPINNINGS: The melody for the spiritual ballad "Summertime" from the George Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess".

LIMERICK VERSE:  Original verses composed by Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio 2017, updated in January 2018. Most of the verses, mildly modified, have been  rigorously edited at the online collaborative limerick dictionary OEDILF.com, were then individually posted by G.C. on our blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense". 

The lyrics for the verses constituting the medley can be found HERE, accompanied by some additional illustrations. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Ukulele chord-charts were adapted from an excellent version at "Dr Uke".

SONGLINK: A calypso-style song about a visit to Iceland in June 2015 was composed for this website under the title "Nordic Journal: Island in the Sun".                                  

CONTENTS:
1. Iceland / Ísland: dry land
2. Geysir
3. Eyjafjallajökull (E15)
4. Second-Hand Geyser
5. Stopover in Reykjavik 

 

ICELANDIC SAGA

(to the tune of "Summertime") 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)

'A7s' = 2200;  A7 = 0100;  Dm7 = 2213;  Gm = 0231;  D7s = 2233;  Gm7 = 0211; 
Bb7 = 1211;  A7+5 = 0110;  Fdim7 = 1212

Island* pronounced by Icelanders as EES-lahndt.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
Click on any chord chart to enlarge and enter thumbnail mode (the slides for both the parody and the original versions can then be enlarged and viewed in any order)

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o) Uke-Song: "JEUX-DE-MOTS, ENCORE"

Another SATIRICAL Uke-Song, inspired by the earlier postings of May 2023 ("Ewe-Yew-You") and July 2024 ("Jeux-de-Mots"):

To view the lyrics of "Do-Re-Mi, Encore" without the chord indications, and to return to the intriguing thread of the post "Daily Edifying Nonsense", click HERE.   

 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. 

 WHAT NOW?

Choice #1: To leave a comment, click on the comment-'widget' at the bottom of this page (or, if that fails, find an alternate e-mail on "pages").

Choice #2: To find another song-parody, use the listings on the web-version by reverse date in the clickable 'Blog-Archive' at the top of the right-hand column.

Choice #3: To return to our broad-spectrum blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE.

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