SILLY SONGS and SATIRE: March 2025

Saturday, 29 March 2025

##Uke-Song: "SATURDAY NIGHT", as might be sung by the Beatles, with thanks to Elton John and a nod to Oscar Wilde

PASTICHE with PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG#1: "Yesterday", Beatles song written for the album Help!, Paul McCartney, 1965.

ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin, 1973.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 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""

Note on the Parody lyrics: Among Oscar Wilde ’s most famous sayings, “Work is the curse of the drinking classes”

"SATURDAY NIGHT" as sung by the Beatles

(to the Beatles' tune, "Yesterday")

Performing Notes:

"Yesterday" has some beautiful chords that contribute to its special feeling.
C9 = 0,2,0,3; Bm7 = 2,0,0,2; Am9 = 2,0,0,2; F6 = 2,2,1,3

Verse:
[C9] Getting late.. [Bm7]

Wanna [E7] little action [Am] on my [Am9] plate [C9]

[F6] Ma, your [G7] discipline just [C] aggravates

[G] I [Am7] want to [D7] rock; where [F] are my [C] mates?

Chorus:

[Bm7] Set [E7] this [Am]dance [C9] a[F6]light

It’s al[G]right; we’re [G7] gonna [C] fight. [C9] [C]

[Bm7] I’ll [E7] do [Am] some[C9]thing [F6] wrong,

Then be [G] strong to [G7] set things [C] right! .[Csus4] [C9]

[Am7] Satur[D7]day's the [F] night I [C9] like

[Am7] Mm mm [D7] mm mm [F] mm mm [C9] mm

Elton John Ending
[C] Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
[Bb] Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
[F] Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night's al[C]right

Getting late

Wanna little action on my plate

Ma, your discipline just aggravates

I wanna rock; where are my mates?

Sis looks cute

Hair all greased up, in her dancing-boots

Seven bells, my old man’s really juiced,

That monkey; Ma don’t give a hoot.

Saturday

It’s alright for fightin’; play that game!

I’ll be oiled as a diesel train

A beer-filled belly; why refrain?

Set this dance alight

It’s alright; we’re gonna fight.

I’ll do something wrong,

Then be strong to set things right!

Stubbornly

I’ll use muscle to get what I need

Find some dolly hanging over me,

From shadows shout out, “She’s with me!”

Party night

It’s a night whose sounds I really like

Like a switchblade and a motorbike

Wilde’s ‘drinking class’ – I’m just its tyke.

Saturday’s the night I like!

Mm mm, mm mm, mm mm-mm.

(to the Elton John tune)

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night’s alright.

(back to the Beatles' tune)

Saturday's the night I like.

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Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Uke-Song: "MY TENOR UKE", featuring politically corrected lyrics

SONG with PARODY-LYRICS and UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "My Tall Silk Hat", 1933, traditional camp-song, based on the popular Neapolitan song "Funiculi, Funicula", 1880.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013.

Transit riders in silk hats (London)

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 at the parody-lyrics site where they were originally posted online at AmIRight.com "

EXPLANATION:
In the traditional version of this schoolboy parody, based on the tune of ‘Funiculi, Funicula’, a “big a-fat-a lady” squashes a hat on the seat of a public vehicle. The current updated lyrics are, I hope, more politically correct, less disparaging of Italian accents, and generally more appealing to adults. The final line of the original version, "funiculi, funicula" is a Neapolitan Ta-da!, meaning let's go up there. Pronounce the "j"s as "y" to sound like an Italian tenor.

considered politically incorrect:

the most widely known English-language spoof

MY TENOR UKE

(to the tune of the spoof "My Tall Silk Hat")

ORIGINAL SCHOOLBOY/BOYSCOUT SPOOF

Introduction:
Inspired by trendy p’litical correctness,

I changed a song, an old camp-song,

Reflecting pre-teen Piggy/Twiggy bias,

That got it wrong, so very wrong.

Besides, a flavor more Napolitana,

I craved to chance, appeal enhance;

And so I trimmed my 'Lady' down to sexy,

Not anorexy,

And let her dance, a bella dance !

Revised Camp-Song:

One day, as I was riding up the tramway,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke

I laid it on the seat a-right beside me,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke.

The tall and shapely Nina sat upon it,

Was that a fluke? My tenor uke !

And launched a liaison volcanic,

(Not too platonic); my tenor uke, my tenor uke !

Pavarotti, what do you think of that ?

Master it, six sharps or seven flats;

‘Cause body-type is so much hype;

It’s only brawn or big-a belly –-

So save a seat in cielo

For our sleek friend A. Bocelli.

Outro:

‘Ncoppa jammo ja’, ukulelí, ukulelá.

Pavarotti (left), Bocelli (right)