Children's Uke-Song: "ARE YOUR ETHICS LOW?"

 

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Do Your Ears Hang Low?", around 1900, likely a sanitized version of a bawdy, nonsensical campfire song, with some similarity to "Turkey in the Straw". The tune is now most familiar as a children's novelty song, as performed by Sharon, Lois and Bram, and others. (Check out their You-tubed version HERE.)

PARODY COMPOSED: Stimulated by various discussions of presidential preoccupations as discussed recently by the media, Giorgio Coniglio wrote these lyrics in July, 2025. Further explanatory notes (or verses) may be added as the situation evolves further. 

  To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"  click HERE. 

SONGLINK: Fans of Sharon, Lois and Bram, the iconic Canadian children's song-monstrels, will be pleased to find another spoof inspired by their work  HERE.   

                                                        

                     

* Department of Justice (US)

** make America great again, slogan for the loosely defined Trump-controlled  Republican Party 

Are your ethics low, unlike Kamala and Joe?
The DOJ* 's got photo-pics and piles of video. 
If released, corroboration could cause MAGA** consternation -- ,
Drive poll-ratings low.

Are your standards low? Friendly pedophiles you know
Have bestowed conspiring theorists with rumors that will flow -- 
MAGA-loyalists hoped Dems would crowd Jeff's "list", and steal the show. 
Are your ethics low? 

Are your moral precepts low? Nasty pederasts you know
Seen in birthday cards and photo-files and piles of video.
At some parties you were host; bimbos aged eighteen at most. 
Are your standards low?

Are your moral standards low? It's "fake news", we hear you crow:
"Files concocted by James Comey, and Hillary and Joe."
|So get Congress dismissed early, and avoid the hurly-burly.
Aren't your precepts low?

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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Yiddish Uke-Nostalgia: "SKITTISH DOLL"

PARODY LYRICS with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Satin Doll" -- Music written in 1953 by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my Satin Doll."
So, could it hurt if she spoke Yiddish?  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2020

To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", for some further recommendations about this song (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

Couple dancing at their son's Bar Mitzvah party in 1958.

SKITTISH DOLL      

(to the tune of "Satin Doll") 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (also banjo, mandolin, guitar etc.!)

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

Specifics for C-tuned ukulele:
Gm7 = Bb6= 0211;  Am7 = 0000, or 0030;  G9 = 2212;  Gb9 = 1101; Gb7 = x101; Cm7 = 3333; BbM7 = 3210.  

 

Prospects for Bar Mitzvah celebrations during the 50s.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
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Readers are asked to honour the original artists' creativity, and to use the slides of the original song-lyrics only to ensure familiarity with the suggested style for the spoof version. 

Chicken soup served with gold ladles,
Live band, ice sculpture, sweet tables;
Speaks Yiddish, my skittish doll.

Cousin's Bar Mitzvah, ... wire lift dress,
Built kind of zaftig -- a 'princess',
Speaks Yiddish, my skittish doll.

Uncle Seymour is right:
When I'm near, she's uptight as can be;
Cause she's noticed me drool
And she ain't cool 'bout fooling with me
(kenahora!).

After the dinner, candle lighting,
Alone in the corner, looks inviting,
Fingers wander, but that is all.
Slaps hand back, my skittish doll.
Can't mess with ... my skittish doll.

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Uke-Song: "R-I-C-E" (rest, ice, compression, elevation) -- a seniors' sports injury ballad

PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "YMCA", Village People, 1978.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, April 2014.

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 "R-I-C-E"

RICE is a mnemonic for 4 elements used to treat soft-tissue and other injuries.


R-I-C-E            
          

(to the tune of "Y-M-C-A")

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

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). 
Readers are asked to honour the original artists' creativity, and to use the slides of the original song-lyrics only to ensure familiarity with the suggested style for the spoof version. 

"Old man with a sports injury," 

I said, "Old man with sprained neck, twisted knee,"

I said, "Lean man with low bone-density 

And your brittle bones so snappy..."

Old man on the floor of the gym

I said old man with a red swollen limb 

You can stay there, moaning woe-is-me hymn 

Or find ways to mobilize it (rest, raise, freeze, compress).

You're gonna feel good with R-I-C-E, it's fun to heal good with R-I-C-E.

You could get an MR, deal with specialists' claims, 

Short-term treatment will be the same.

  

You're gonna feel good with R-I-C-E, it's fun to heal good with R-I-C-E. 

If you've Medicare B, there'll be no fees you owe 

When you hang out at Physio.

Sometimes, there's a glitch in this scheme - 

Early X-rays aren't as smart as they seem,

Subtle fractures missed by linear beam,

And a scan is more revealing.

Symptoms -- this might all help explain,

After one week, why you're still wracked by pain,

So some bone-meds you will likely be takin', 

 'long with RICE, then ambulation  (rest, raise, freeze, compress).

You're gonna feel good with R-I-C-E, it's fun to heal good with R-I-C-E.

It's First-Aid of choice, as approved by your grand-pa, 

And it still is the modern mantra.

R-I-C-E, it's fun to heal good with R-I-C-E. 

If you've Medicare B, there'll be no fees you owe 

Complete ACL tear
Surgical intervention required

When you hang out at Physio.

Rarely, when you see Dr Dodd,

(Worth waiting, he's a sharp orthopod),

He'll astound you, "it's unstable - good God!"

Hip or knee or shin needs fixing.

Post-op, Doc's rewired your limb, 

Turn up volume, and just listen to him. 

Pain is screaming, don't sign out on a whim, 

You've just got to know this one thing (rest, raise, freeze, compress). 

                                           

You're gonna feel good with R-I-C-E,
It's fun to heal good with R-I-C-E.

You could  threaten to sue, dream of injury claims, 

Short-term treatment will be the same.

R-I-C-E, it's fun to heal good with R-I-C-E 

Old man, old man on the floor of the gym, 

Old man, old man with a red swollen limb. 

Fade:

R-I-C-E, you're gonna feel good with R-I-C-E,

Old man, old man with sprained neck, twisted knee...

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