Novel Limerick-Melodies, parts #A and #B

Song Medley with Adapted Limerick Verses

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: as indicated.

Lyrics by Giorgio Coniglio set to the music of the indicated songs, mostly shown in various other blogposts.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2017. 

NOVEL MELODIES for SINGING the NANTUCKET LIMERICK, part #A

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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

1. WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW?

Dm7 = 2213;  G7 = 0121;  E7 = 1202;  E7+5 = 1203;  As4 = 2200;  Cs4 = 0013.

2. SUMMERTIME

DM = 2210;  As7 = 0200; A7  = 0100; Dm7 = 2213;  Gm= 0231;  D7s = 2233;  Gm7 = 0211;  Bb7 = 1211;  A7+5 = 0110;  Fdim7 = 1212.

3. HOME ON THE RANGE

Fm = 1013

5. SANTA LUCIA

C7s = 0011

 C-tuned ukulele specifics:

6.DARK EYES (Ochi Chornye)
Gm = 0213
7.AN DIE FREUDE (Ode to Joy)

Bb = 3211;  Bbs2 = 3213; F7 = 2310    

NOVEL MELODIES for SINGING the NANTUCKET LIMERICK, part #B

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Uke-Song: "ALLITERATIVE BINOMIALS, #2", L to Z

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.


PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the third of nine in the series on Word Pairs. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

WORDPLAY LINK: For discussion of alliterative binomials on our sister blogsite "EDIFYING NONSENSE", the first part of our mini-lexicon with listings from A through K, click HERE (and explore the accompanying ukulele-chords, should you desire.)

Be sure to continue the delights of word pairs with "Rhyming Binomials, part #1".

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). 

The remaining 6 slides in Lehrer's original song, "The Elements" can be viewed as a supplement to our parody-song-blogpost "No Elements". Click HERE to proceed.

There's latitude and longitude, and lads and lasses, lemon-lime,
And lend or lease, last (but not least), and lords and ladies, mock and mime.

And live and learn, and mind o'er matter, mountains-molehills, lock and latch,

And over-out, lewd and lascivious, love-it-leave-it, mix and match.

There's meek and mild, and name and number, now or never, naughty-nice,
Out and about, there's odds and evens, one and only, on thin ice. 
There's prince and pauper, prim and proper, pen and paper, peas in pod,
And pig in poke, and poems and prose, and pots and pans, and poke and prod.   

There’s “Pride” and also “Prejudice”, and publish-perish, parcel post,
(In Britain, they’ve been smitten with odd variants like 'rule the roast'),
And pain and pleasure, quake and quiver, quirks and quarks, and rant and rave,
And rough and ready, right or wrong, no rhyme or reason, scratch and save.

Restore-reset, and rock and roll, and rest and rehab, rod and reel,
And rags to riches, rules and regs, and search and seizure, sign and seal.
And signs and symptoms, short but sweet, and sink or swim, and run-arounds,
— From sea to shining sea there’s stress and strain among the sights and sounds.

The Stars and Stripes, once spick and span, show slow but steady slip and slide;
And toil and trouble, trials and tribulations, trick or treat, and tried
But true, and tea for two, unloved-unwanted, also tit for tat,
And thick or thin, and toss and turn, and tots and toddlers, this-or-that.

There’s tarts and tortes, and truck and trailer, sugar-spice and top and tail,
And vice and virtue, vim and vigor, wax and wane, and weep and wail,
And wash and wear, and wild and woolly, warp and woof, and where or when,
Within-without, and whys and wherefores, watching-waiting, wild and woolly, yearn and yen.

This song represents the third set of parody-lyrics in a cycle dealing with word-pairs.

You crave more patter-songs in the style of Tom Lehrer???
T.L. inspired a whole platterful of songs related to our interest in (i) grammatically paired words, including binomials and reduplications, and (ii) Latin loanwords. And, you should have your foot in the door, having mastered the complexities of singing and playing our above offering "Alliterative Binomials".  So, enjoy singing and playing these as well !!!     

HOT LINKS to the SONGS in the WORD-PAIR CYCLE (Updated, 2021)  

Uke-friendly versions here on "Silly Songs and Satire"

Pairs

Alliterative Binomials, part #1

Alliterative Binomials, part #2

Rhyming Binomials, A to L

Rhyming Binomials, M to Z

Reduplications - Lesson

Reduplications - Lexicon A to K

Reduplications - Lexicon L to Z

Legal Doublets

of the original songs in our parody suite about word-pairs
7/9 pay tribute to the work of Tom Lehrer

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Limerick-Uke-Saga: "AEGEAN CAT", a fixture of Greek travel for hellenophiles

UKE-SONG, derived from limerick lyrics.


MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.


ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS: Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, following a trip to Greece in Nobember 2017. After undergoing their rigorous collaborative editing process, these have been published as a "brief saga", a poetic entity of three or more stanzas, on the poetry website OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form); they have then been displayed as poetry lyrics on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE to review Giorgio's blogged poem.


SETTING WORDS TO MUSIC: Readers might be interested to know that of more than 1000 short poems that we have published, only 50 or so would qualify as "brief sagas". Although almost any limerick verse (e.g. the "Nantucket limericks") can be set to music, we were particularly interested in exploring this transitiioning for these multiverse poems that warrant the time to pick up your ukulele.

The tunes we have exploited in this effort include, not surprisingly "The Limerick Song". On certain occasions we have also used "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime", "Santa Lucia" and Shania Twain's "Up" (minor modifications to scansion are required for some of these).


SONG-LINKS: If interested, you could check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with travels in Greece, most of which involve the conversion of limerick-based poems to singable format. These include "Acropolis", "Cyclades Islands", "Dodecanese Islands", and "Singable Limericks: Using Greek Words". (There are also many shorter illustrated verses, remaining under the poetry rubric that can be found on "Daily Edifying Nonsense", although these, too, are singable).

 

first stanza:/ Learned so much touring Greece, such as that/ There’s a native Aegean-type cat./ It’s his most fervent wish/ That you order up fish/ And leave leftovers right where he’s at.

second stanza:/ While you ponder the menu, he’ll hover;/ There are ‘Specials’ he yearns to discover./ Never ask his advice;/ He’s immune to the price — / He’ll expect you to be a cat-lover.

third stanza:/ Late at night, walk past any Greek bin —/ Your skin crawls (something brushes your shin!/ Inky forms make a beeline/ For a sign, Greek and Feline,/ “Seafood Spa: vermin OUT, cats are IN.”

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s,o) Uke-Song: " X66X" -- a bidirectional re-exploration of 'Route 66'

PARODY-LYRICS consisting of PALINDROMES

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Route 66", written by Bobby Troup, 1946, performed by Nat King Cole, covered by Perry Como, Chuck Berry, Bing Crosby, Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer, John Mayer etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 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. 

Palindromes are highlighted here in green font and italicized (Warning! Some of these contain adult material). A tip of the hat to Weird Al Yankovic who invented the concept of singable palindromes with his spoof "Bob". See also our previously posted palindrome-song "Gnats Stang; Gnus Sung" , and various other posts highlighting palindromes.  

John Mayer's rollicking version of the original song is found on YouTube HERE.

X66X  

(to the tune of "Route 66")

If you're the type not vexed by 'Joy of Lex',

Get your fix by fax or telex or Express.

The best letter is rated 'XX'.

It's boxed in the slot before 'Y',

Sly x-axis, it seldom rides high,

Best letter is rated 'XX'.   

Now there's, No 'x' in Nixon

No 'xx' - Exxon

No 'x' Al, knit on; toot no tin klaxon

"Laid Fixes" - sex, if dial

Max. esteem meets exam

Sex-aware era waxes

Six axons, no x-axis.

Mix a maxim. No 'x' - a Saxon.

The Bible of word-play

Just flex to the nexus of this text,

Your next exit past Texas and New Mex,

Best letter is rated 'XX'.

The best jest is  "Xerox, O Rex."

Best letter is rated 'XX'.

        

Not 'UF', not on futon!

No 'yarn' in rayon

Un nu?  No! it's a bare-era bastion

Lapse - porno on ropes, pal

Llama - nix in a mall

Sex at my gym taxes

Six at my gym? Taxis!

Sod-lid dildos. Sex-elf flexes.

   

Get relaxed with the moxie of this text,

More exotic than Texas or New Mex,

The letter that ends "Joy of Lex".

That letter is rated 'XX'.

The best letter is rated 'XX'.

Puzzling palindrome,used in Weird Al's song "Bob"

Link between 'x' and NO

The original XX rating

Self-promoted X+ rating

Performing Notes

C9 = 0201; G6 = 0202

Intro: D7, C9, G6, D7 

If [G6] you're the type not [C9] vexed by "Joy of [G6]  Lex", [G7]

Get your [C9] fix by fax or telex or Ex[G6]press

The best [D7] letter is [C9] rated 'X[G6]X'. [G7]

It's [G6] boxed in the [C9] slot before [G6] 'Y', [G7]

Sly x-[C9]axis, it seldom rides [G6] high,
Best [D7]  letter is [C9] rated 'X[G6] X'. [D7!]   

               

Now there's, [G6!]No 'x' in Nixon

[G6!] No 'xx' - Exxon

[G6!]No 'x' Al, knit on; toot [G7] no tin klaxon

[C9]"Laid Fixes" - sex, if dial

[C6] Max. esteem meets exam

Sex-a[D7]ware era waxes
Six [C9] axons, no x-axis.
[G6] Mix a maxim. [D7] No 'x' - a Saxon.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

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Adage of the week:  (Egad! an adage!) 


English is simple:

flax, flakes, flicks, phlox, folks, fox, flukes.   

Ignore the spelling.

GioLio

W-I-P points :

v2 L3; No k in Nikon??