INCONTINENT WORDPLAY(Part B): CANADIAN ANAGRAMS, Eh?

POST #120

CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHY and PARODY-LYRICS, 

ORIGINAL SONG: "I've Been Everywhere", by Lucky Starr, covered by Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Stompin' Tom Connors etc. Please also note take-offs of this song posted here as earlier blog-posts. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February 2016.
WORDPLAY LINK: An explanation of the derivation of the anagrammatic place-names, and extensive lists are found at "Giorgio's Weekly Wordplay" post #32.

KEYWORDS: goldenoldy, wordplay

Explanatory Notes: 
The verses of this song consist of anagrams of the word P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S, place-names with 2-letter postal abbreviations, e.g. April Dome NS and Pliers Dam ON. To increase the representation of Canadian provinces, a "B" was borrowed to be added for placenames in the provinces of AB (Alberta), NB (New Brunswick) and MB (Manitoba); this lets us include well-known locales like Snail Doper MB in the song. Unfortunately, the provinces of Quebec, Saskatchewan and British Columbia opted out of the arrangement.

Please see the previous post on this blog for the related but very different American lyrics. 
Incidentally, PALINDROMES and ANAGRAMS are somewhat related types of wordplay dealing with the rescrambling of letters in words or phrases. If you need to review the topic, check out the links provided.  

Incontinent Wordplay: I'VE GOT ANAGRAMS, Eh? 

(to the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")
                                                                                          
Note that underlined lyrics are anagrams (word-scrambles) of the word "A-N-A-G-R-A-M-S)

I was sitting at my desk with “The Joy of Lex” composing PALINDROMES;

When along came a thought, where sometimes seems nobody’s home

If you’re gonna write some wordplay, go with what you understand

Cause you start off every morning, Jumble puzzle in your hand.

There’s no doubt that I can go both ways in handling ANAGRAMS,

But first I’d need return a message, I was told that A ‘SAM’ RANG.

Uncle Sam
See previous post
for the U.S. version
of this parody-song

CHORUS:

I’ve got A-N-A-G-R-A-M-S, Sam
Helps to SNAG A RAM, man

Told my MA, "GAS! RAN!", man

RAM SANG A 'NASA-GRAM', man

Sing and have some fun, eh?
Lots of anagrams. 

I've been to:

Model Pair, April Dome, Dipole Arm, Rapid Mole
Moped Rail, Plaidmore, Modal Pier, Mid-parole
Those were places not so famous found in NS - yes!
Next comes cutesy villages in PE; can you guess?
Solar Mind, Mild Arson, Minor's Lad, Manorslid
Disnormal, Marlinsod, Morndials, Roman's Lid

Repeat Chorus

I’ve been to:
Pliers Dam, Idler's Map, Prismdale, Pram Slide

Dreamlips, Misled Rap, Pedal's Rim, Palms Ride 

Limp Dares, Mildersap, Alder Imps ON;

On 'The Rock' known as NL there's  Ram Poised and Roi-de-Spam

And Dimsoaper, Prime Soda, Paris Mode, Dipso-Mare

Maid's Rope, Depo Maris -  happily there's Mo' Despair.

Repeat Chorus

There's also: 

Permasolid, Spired Loam, Seldom Pair, Dismal Pore

Dreamspoil, Paris Model, Damsol Pier, Dimplesoar

Period Alms, Simple Road, Morale Dips, Load Permis

Dior Sample, Piso-del-Mar, Merdapolis in N(B);

There's Solemn Drip, Miners' Plod, Modern Slip in A(B)

And Mindsloper, Mi Splendor, Smolder Nip -  that's what you'll see.     

Repeat Chorus

Out west there's: 

Radon Piles, Prisondale, Lodesprain, Spindle Oar

Laidperson, Paler Dinos, M(B) towns like Île Pas-Nord,

Saline Drop, Lone Rapids, Repo Island, Prone Dials

Pride Salon, Silo Pander, Ail Respond and Pardon Isle

Dorsal Pine, Serial Pond, Lapin d' Éros* and Snail Doper

You'll find traces of these places when you go to Manitoba.  

Repeat Chorus (Final)

* a bilingual town, also known as Lovebunny MB

HOTLINKS TO OTHER CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

An Alien Heading South

Big Rob Rehab Clinic

Canadian Reunion

Canoeing Lesson

I've Got Anagrams, Eh? (see below)

Flight of the Loonie

FOP-Shop Wine

Mergerwocky

Off-Patent Drug #19

Prattle of New Orleans

Suburbs' Guy

The Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum 

This Land Has Anagrams 

TTC Voices

Vancouver's Isle

..AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS

Shania Twain's "Verse": An anthem for limericists

Canada Day 2015 (singable limericks)

Limericks About Chemainus, B.C.

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INCONTINENT WORDPLAY (part A1) : U S ANAGRAMS

POST #119

SINGALONG CARTOGRAPHY and PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "I've Been Everywhere", Geoff Mack 1959, covered by Lucky Starr,  Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Stompin' Tom  et al. 
WORDPLAY LINK: An explanation of the derivation of the anagrammatic place-names, and an extensive lists are found at our sister-bloog "Edifying Nonsense" post #32 , using the tools of creative cartography.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February 2016.

 KEYWORDS: goldenoldy, wordplay, cartography

Explanatory Note: The site editor, a great fan of palindromes,  recently made the discovery that the letters in the word P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S make a great base for anagrams, and that many of the quirky results sound like place names. But, strangely, if you look carefully at an atlas you will find many places with names almost like these.....  Canadian readers will acknowledge the similarity to Red Deer or Medicine Hat, Alberta, and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Americans will recognize the similarity, given the naming by early international explorers, of Green Bay, Des Moines and El Paso.

This American patter-song-parody is more rigorous than the original Johnny Cash version, in using only place names from the United States (including PR - Puerto Rico). Place names from other jurisdictions, particularly Canadian ones, are excluded (in reality, all of these are stipulated by the initial designation of a postal code). However those interested in a Canadian take on the song are invited to view a post 'under construction'  dealing with this issue.

INCONTINENT WORDPLAY: 
U.S. ANAGRAMS (part #1)

 (to the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")

I was sitting at my desk with “The Joy of Lex” composing palindromes;

When along came a thought, where sometimes seems nobody’s home,

"If you’re gonna write some wordplay, go with what you understand

Cause you start off every morning, Jumble puzzle in your hand."

There’s no doubt that I can go both ways in handling anagrams

Because I've scrambled and resorted every phrase like "SPOILER DAMN".

Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", guy

You'll get DIMPLE ROANS,  guy
Also DISMAL PRONE, guy
Even LIDS PER MOAN, guy 
You'll get PRISM LOANED, guy
Shake up PALINDROMES.

Out west there's:

Limp Roads, Paris Mold, Solid Pram NE;
Normal Pie, Lime Apron, Roman Pile SD;
Prosemail, Parle-Mois and Liar's Poem -add these three
To Serial Mop, El Paso Rim, Spare Limo ND;
Salon Perm, Morselpan, Norse Lamp, Morn Pleas
And Solemn Rap, Mope Snarl and Lonerspam ID.

Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Stan

You'll get SPOIL REMAND, Stan

And LOPSIDERMAN, Stan
With OLD MISERPAN, Stan 
You'll find PROMISELAND, Stan

Shake up PALINDROMES.

Down east there's:
Minor Laps, Moral Spin, Iron Palms DE;
Radon Slip, Lapins d'Or, Dorsal Pin ME;
MD has Prison Lea, Oral Pines and  Porn Aisle
And Palin's Roe, Plain Sore, Parole Sin, Posernail
Opal Siren, Parsonlie, Ailperson, Loserpain
Seal Prion, Reasonlip, Sailor Pen, Spiro Lane.

Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", guy

You'll get RANDOM PILES,  guy
Sites like MANDROP ISLE, guy
Check out PROMS DENIAL, guy
Still when RANSOM PLIED, guy 
Keep your SALMON PRIDE .

IN has:
Samplerod, Doper Alms, Pod's Realm, Maledrops
And Resold Map, Dorms Leap, not to mention Dermalsop; 
Iowa is short on vowels; IA has  Splendrom;
AL's home to Drop Mines, Snide Romp and Sniperdom 
RI has Solemn Pad, Endoplasm, Demon's Lap
Demo Plans, Modelspan, and pay attention! - Seldom Nap.

Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Sir
You'll get ON-PAD SMILER

Even a LAPSED MINOR
Rebuff PEN-DOM LIARS
Grasp with NOMAD PLIERS 

Shake up PALINDROMES.


For the remainder of the song (9 more verses and choruses) see post #121. 

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Breaking up is Hard #2: I'm Gonna Survive

POST #108

ALTERED SONG-LYRICS: parodysitism (see explanatory note below). 
RECIPIENT SONG (music): "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", The Proclaimers, 1988.

INVADING SONG (lyrics): "I Will Survive", Gloria Gaynor 1978
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.

KEYWORDS: goldenoldy, mishmash, pairody

A major way to have fun with songs is to insert lyrics from one into the musical backdrop of another. As discussed in the previous post, a good analogy is that the lyrics and theme act as an invader or parasite, taking over the music and pre-empting the message of the “recipient” or “host” song. PARODYSITISM is a neologism mixing the concepts as well as the sounds of parasitism and parody. Examples under the heading "Breaking Up Is Hard" demonstrate how songs about the ardent phase of love/relationships can give way to a more difficult phase in their life-cycle. 

Other examples of PARODYSITISM  (search this site by "mishmash") include... 
Ochi Chornye (brown-eyed girl), Saturday Night as Sung by Beatles, Carolina: A Redawning, Starry Notions, Those Were Our Trains, Budapest Is So Fine, The Budapest Banana-Boat Song, Nifty Ways to Leave Your Mukluks, Bob Dylan Sings Cole Porter, and The Burning Grapevine 

I'M GONNA SURVIVE

(lyrics of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” -with modification, to the tune of The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna Be - 500 Miles”)

I

I was fearful, at first I was petrified,

Thought I’m never gonna manage without you.

I kept thinkin', that without you by my side,

Never gonna  learn to be somebody new.

Many nights spent, thinking how you did me wrong,

Feeling sorry for myself because of you.

I’d been chained up, didn’t know I could be strong    

Just a little person still in love with you.

I should have changed the front door lock

Or made you leave your stupid key

I’d have never guessed -  it’s quite a shock! that you’d,

Be back to bother me.

Here I find you - you’ve come back from outer space

But there’s gonna be no welcome here for you

You just dropped in, with that sad look on your face

Hoping I’d lay down and crumble just for you.

I tried hard to, mend the pieces of my heart

And now you just expect me to be free

All my strength used, to avoid falling apart,

Now I’ll save my love for one who’s loving me.

Now you should go, walk out the door 

You’d tried to hurt me with goodbye

I’ve got all my life to live and love to give,

I’ll hold my head up high.

Fa-da–la-dah (fa-da–la-dah); fa-da–la-dah (fa-da–la-dah)

I know I’ll stay alive, I will survive.

Lay down and die? (lay down and die); oh no, not I (oh no, not I)

I know I’ll stay alive, I will survive.

(Repeat 2^nd verse)

Go on now, walk five hundred k
And then walk several thousand more.
Just leave me your key, walk far away
And never drop in at my door.

Fa-da–la-dah (fa-da–la-dah); fa-da–la-dah (fa-da–la-dah)

I know I’ll stay alive, I will survive.

Lay down and die? (lay down and die); oh no, not I (oh no, not I)

I've got all my love to give, I will survive. 


Performing Notes

 G5= 0235; C = 5543; D = 7765

I was [G5] fearful, at first I was petrified,

Thought I’m [C] never gonna [D] manage without [G5] you.

I kept thinkin',  that without you by my side,

Never [C] gonna learn to [D] be somebody [G5] new.

Many nights spent, thinking how you did me wrong,

Feeling [C] sorry for [D] myself because of [G5] you.

I’d been chained up, didn’t know I could be strong    

Just a [C] little person [D] still in love with you.

I [G5] should have changed the front door lock

Or [C] made you leave your [D] stupid key

I’d have [G5] never guessed -  it’s quite a shock! that [C] you’d,

Be back to [D] bother me.

Fa-da–[G5]-la-dah (fa-da–la-dah); fa-da–la-dah (fa-da–la-dah)

I [C] know I’ll stay a[D]live, I will sur[G5]vive.

Lay down and die? (lay down and die); oh no, not I (oh no, not I)

I [C] know I’ll stay a[D]live, I will sur[G5]vive. 

Hallowe'en Lullaby from Guest-Parodist Al Silver: "ZOMBIES"

POST #102 

PARODY-LYRICS: GUEST-ARTIST

ORIGINAL SONG: "People" 1964, Styne and Merrill for the 1964 musical "Funny Girl"; Barbra Streisand's signature song. 

PARODY-LYRICS COMPOSED: Al Silver, 2014, copied here with permission. Al has been a frequent contributor to the AmIRight song-parody website.

You can view Al's delightful lyrics along with some commentary (without images or chords)  displayed on that website at AmIRight.com Post "Zombies"

Check out post #25, Feb 2014  and post #100 for other great parody-lyrics by Al Silver.

KEYWORDS: guestartist, goldenoldy, showtune 

from "The Cafepress Blog"

ZOMBIES

(to the tune of "People")

People
Rotting, undead people
Are the hungriest people one can meet,
Expression, lacking all expression
As their stiff and lumbering stride
Hide all feelings inside,
Leaving blank expressions
On Haitians.

“Zombies” are what we call these people,
They’re the hungriest people
One can meet.
The right zombie,
That one “Mr. Right” zombie
Bites deeply into your brain
What once was whole,
Now is twain.
No more affect for you
You’re expressionless, too
You’re a zombie –
Stupid, stinking zombie
You’re the silliest zombie
One can meet!

When Possession
Becomes a world obsession
Zombie Apocalypse comes
Once we were good,
Now we’re bums.
And the virus will spread
Till the whole world’s undead,
Filled with zombies –
Suppurating zombies
Are the peskiest zombies
One can meet!

Bob Dylan Sings Cole Porter.

POST #101

PASTICHE with parody-lyrics: parodysitism?

RECIPIENT SONG (music): "Let's Do It" 1928, Cole Porter 

INVADING SONG  (lyrics):  "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"1967, Bob Dylan.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October, 2015.

KEYWORDS: goldenoldy, classicsong, showtune, mishmash, palindromes

BOB DYLAN SINGS "Let's Do It"

(to the tune of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love")

Close your eyes, close the door,
You don't have to worry anymore;
I'll be your baby tonight.
Well now, let's shut the light, shut the shade
You really don't have to be afraid
I'll be your baby tonight.

That mockingbird's gonna sail away
And that big fat old moon
It won't be pale, it's gonna 
Shine just like a spoon.
So no regrets, we'll forget our fear
Fling your shoes and bring that bottle over here.
I'll be your baby tonight. 

Performing Notes

F6 = 2213; Gm7 = Bb6 = 0211; C+5 = 1003; Bbm6 = 0111; A7+5 = 0110;
Am7 = 0000; Eb7 = 3334; Ab = 5343; F7 = 2310 or 5556; Bb* = 7565 

INTRO: 

[F6] Close [F] your eyes, [Gm7] close [C7] the door;

[F]    You don't [F7] have to worry [Bb6] a[Bbm6]nymore;

[F6] I'll [F] be your [Gm7] ba[C7]by to[F]night. [Dm] [Gm7] 

Well [C+5] now let's [F6] shut [F] the light, [Gm7] shut [C7] the shade;
[F]    You really [F7] don't have to be [Bb6] be [Bbm6] afraid;

[F6] I'll [F] be your [Gm7] ba[C7]by to[F]night. [Gm7] [F] 

[A7+5] That mocking [Dm] bird's gonna [Bb6] sail away 
[Am7]   And that big fat old  [Cm7] moon [F7]

[Bb*] It won't be [Eb7] pale, it's gonna

[Ab] Shine just like a [Gm7] spoon. 

[C+5] So no re[F6]grets [F] we'll for[Gm7]get [C7] our fear;

[F] Fling your shoes and [F7] bring that bottle [Bb6] o[Bbm6]ver  here;

[F6] I'll [F] be your [Gm7] ba[C7]by to[F]night. [Gm7] [F] 

Romantic and Sensuous Palindromes

- see our sister blog, "Giorgio's Weekly Wordplay"