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.
Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players here on "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions.
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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").
ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
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