Uke-Song: "DOWNSIDE, NOW", an ecologic lament, as might be sung by Joni Mitchell

PARODY LYRICS 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Both Sides Now" is a ballad by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Included in her album "Clouds" in 1969, it became one of her best-known hits. The song had been released as a single two years earlier, and was recorded by Judy Collins, then Celine Dion, and many others.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2024, performed at the Ukes of York ukulele jam, October 2025. 

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 DOWNSIDE, NOW

(to the tune of "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell)

(Editors' Note: Additional information is available for readers in our illustrated poems about "drought", the "great auk", (an extinct bird species), "global warming", and "too hot to hoot").

slide showing author’s verse published online at “Daily Illustrated Nonsense”

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