o) Uke-Song: "SUBURBS' GUY" -- theme for a mayoral procession

Hallowe'en reveller, 2013
at a Toronto tavern

PARODY-LYRICS with ukulele chords

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" , Hank Williams, 1952.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013. Click HERE to see a photo of the song being performed at a ukulele jam.


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 Post ""

 SUBURBS' GUY

(to the tune of "Jambalaya")

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

To play the original song Jambalaya, check out Corktunes, the songbook of the Corktown Ukulele Jam here. 
A highly recommended parody-song on this topic is found at: video of B.MacC.'s Rob Ford parody

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Related Palindromes


Now Roy, am I mayor won. 

Call - I'd a Cadillac.

Toronto - got no rot.

Dr. of trams - smart Ford !

Yaw, Bus Civic  - Subway !

Dr. of Borrow, or Rob Ford ? 

Rise to vote, sir.

Elect, Cele

Not so, Boston.

No Rob on ten-alp planet No-Boron.

HOTLINKS TO CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

An Alien Heading South

Big Rob Rehab Clinic

Canadian Reunion

Canoeing Lesson

I've Got Anagrams, Eh?

Flight of the Loonie

FOP-Shop Wine

Mergerwocky

Off-Patent Drug #19

Prattle of New Orleans

Suburbs' Guy (see below)

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.

Uke-Song: OVERVIEW of Coupled Words: "PAIRS"

PARODY-SONG with UKULELE CHORDS
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Words", Bee Gees, 1968.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. updated 2018 and 2020.
 To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", where you can find lots of illustrated poems, wordplay and photos (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

EXPLANATION: This song resulted from our interest in the linguistic phenomenon Word-Pairs, and eventually resulted in the development of extensive lists ('compendia]) of various types, and in the development of nine parody-songs about this fascinating form of wordplay. If you go to our 'full-service' blog "Edifying Nonsense", you can find this instructive material. 

For a more didactic take on this topic, check out the Wikipedia article HERE.

PAIRS

(to the tune of "Words") 

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). 

Pairs -  binomial phrases. There's  (bi-NOAM-yuhl)
(Compared to single entities)
Flair, as seen in "wear and tear",
Where pairs submerge identities. 

Two nouns joined with conjunction --
AND serves that "form and function", sometimes OR.
Verb-pairs and adjectives unite;
And "fish" and "fowl" with NEITHER/NOR. 

"Shouts and murmurs": such a phrase
Explains the "ins and outs" to me.
With "back to front" I'm in a daze,
Enhancing "fears and doubts" to me. 

I cringe at "one and only" words,
No single words I voice ...
So "near and dear",
Word-pairs are what can make all "guys and dolls" rejoice. 

This submitted song is the first in a cycle of 10 parody-lyrics dealing with word-pairs.  

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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

Limerick-Uke-Saga: "LIFE AS A LOON"

 

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. 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 Giorgio's other song-posts dealing with avian wildlife, most of which involve the conversion of limerick-based poems to singable format. These include "The Cormorant Rookery", "Avian Digestion", and "Evolution of the Domestic Turkey". (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:/ I confess I’d give up rather soon/ If compelled to live life as a loon./ In cold lakes I’d deep dive, / Swallow fish half-alive,/ And keep wailing that same plaintive tune.

second stanza:/ Every day honing skills as a swimmer/ (My Linnaean name Gavia immer);/ Heavy-boned, I’d ride low/ On lakes’ surface. You know,/ Flight’s too tough, and my prospects grow dimmer.

third stanza:/ But, In Canada, so opportune-y/ (Whether named Li, Lemoine or Mulrooney),/ I’ll be rich and well-known/ On my avian throne — / I’ll embellish their coin called ‘the loonie’.

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s,o) Nordic Uke-Song: "ÍSLAND (ICELAND) IN THE SUN"

PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Island In the Sun", Harry Belafonte 1957. The original song has been covered in versions in German and Swedish, but not as far as we can tell in Icelandic.

 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2015.

PARODY-LINK: To see the lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE.

EXPLANATION: This song developed during a family trip to Iceland in June 2015. Our few days there were packed with wonderful sightseeing excursions. The weather was as good as it gets in Iceland (only minimal rain, not interfering with our travels). The highlight of the trip was the recently opened IceCave adventure; after a palpitating ride by giant truck over a huge ice-field, we walked into a system of tunnels in the glacier itself, led by an excellent informative guide.
The Icelandic language, a venerable tongue which has apparently changed little since the first settlers came to the island in the 9th century, seems challenging to learn. Fortunately for us, the friendly locals we encountered, at least in Reykjavik, all spoke English quite well.

Ísland = Iceland , pronounced eess-lant. 
góðan daginn = good morning, hello, pronounced goh-than die-in.
Eyjafjallajökull (j's pronounced as y)  = Island-Mountain-icecap, the subglacial volcano whose brief eruption caused the Icelandic ash problem in 2010; the volcano has now been considered dormant for 5 years.
    

ÍSLAND (Iceland) IN THE SUN

(to the tune of Belafonte's "Island in The Sun")

This year we flew with Icelandair

Europe-bound and stopped halfway there.

We left TO, our kids from DC,

A meet-up trip for our family. 

Oh, Ísland, land of sun

Nights stay bright for the month of June;

Four full days, awesome sights to praise

Geysers, glaciers, volcanoes

IceCave, Langjökull

And Blue Lagoon.

A neat idea, break our trip

Meet at hotel-suite in Reykjavik.

Restos coped with vegg-necessity

And one kid GF lactose-free.

Didn’t know, but they’re eco-smart

Geo-thermal at system’s heart

Hot water piped everywhere you see

Heat all home and greenhouse for free.

Oh, Ísland, northern light

Eyjafjallajökull
eruption March 2010

Four full days touring awesome sights

Hotel choose, or your sleep you’ll lose

Weekends downtown bars

Never close at night.

Recent attraction, not to skip

Monster truck, glacier Ice-Cave trip

Bundle up, walk though colored ice

View crevasse, bottom-up is nice. 

Oh, Ísland, isle of fun

Nights stay bright for the month of June

Four full days, awesome sights to praise

Glacier overlying
 dormant volcano, 2013

Close with steamy bathing

At Blue Lagoon.

I'll greet old friends - “góðan daginn”, soon

When we go back some year in June

Next time stay longer, get my fill - 

Climb, and say, “Eyjafjallajökull”.

Oh, Ísland, isle of sun

Nights stay bright for the month of June;

More full days, awesome sights to praise

Geysers, glaciers, volcanoes

And Blue Lagoon.

tourist-party atop the glacier

 'night'-time hike down volcano
 to a steamy bathing spot

Performing Notes

[D] This year we flew with Ice[G]landAir

[A7] Europe-bound and stopped [D] halfway there.

[Bm] We left TO, our [Em] kids from DC,

[D] Meet-up trip for our [A7] fami[D]ly. 

[D] Oh, Ísland *, [G] isle of sun

[A7] Nights stay bright for the [D] month of June;

[Bm] Four full days, awesome [G] sights to praise

Geysers, [A7] glaciers, volcanoes

And [D] Blue Lagoon.

* pronounce as  'eess-lant'

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