* Uke-Song about Word-Pairs: "PAIRS"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

ORIGINAL SONG: "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.

BACKGROUND INFO ON THIS TOPIC: 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). 

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

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

Pairs (see above)

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

Uke-Song: "ICELANDIC SUMMERTIME SAGA", a faux Gershwin-era folk-aria

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

 (Reposted from January, 2018 post#164)

ORIGINAL SONG: The melody for the spiritual ballad "Summertime" from the George Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess".

LIMERICK VERSE:  Original verses composed by Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio 2017, updated in January 2018. Several of the verses also appear, mildly modified, in the online limerick dictionary OEDILF.com. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Ukulele chord-charts were adapted from an excellent version at "Dr Uke".

SONGLINK: A calypso-style song about a visit to Iceland in June 2015 was composed for this website under the title "Nordic Journal: Island in the Sun".                                  

CONTENTS:
Underpinnings: "Summertime"
1. Iceland / Ísland: dry land
2. Geysir
3. Eyjafjallajökull (E15)
4. Second-Hand Geyser
5. Stopover in Reykjavik (not a limerick)

ICELANDIC SAGA

(to the tune of "Summertime") 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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

A7s = 0200;  A7 = 0100;  Dm7 = 2213;  Gm = 0231;  D7s = 2233;  Gm7 = 0211; 
Bb7 = 1211;  A7+5 = 0110;  Fdim7 = 1212

Island* pronounced as EES-lahndt.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS

Limerick-Uke-Saga: "FLUORIDATION" W-I-P

Heavenly Uke-Song: "MY BLUE SIT-ON"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

ORIGINAL SONG: "My Blue Heaven", W. Donaldson (music), G.A.Whiting (lyrics), 1928. Performed originally by Gene Austin, covered by almost 100 other bands and soloists, from Marlene Dietrich to Norah Jones.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, May 2015, post updated May 2018. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications), and treat yourself to pile of wordplay, illustrated poems and nature photos, click HERE.

 

Shem Creek, SC
foreground: sit-on kayak
background: trawlers

MY BLUE SIT-ON

(to the tune of "My Blue Heaven")l

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, too!)

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

Specifics for C-tuned ukulele):
F7 = 2310 (or 2313);  Bb6 = 0211;  Bb = 3211;  Cm7 = 3333;  Fdim7 = 1212;  Bb7 = 1211;  Eb = 0331 . 

final harmonic = 7565

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
(click on any chart to enlarge and scroll between versions of the song)

o) Canadian Uke-Song: "CANOE, CANOE, CANOE, CANOE, CANOE", homage to ABBA and Pierre Berton

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", ABBA, 1975.

PARODY COMPOSED:  Giorgio Coniglio, March 2013. 

PAODY-WORDLINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe", Pierre Berton, eminent Canadian journalist, editor, historian and author.

CANOEING LESSON

(to the tune of "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do")

HOTLINKS TO OTHER CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

An Alien Heading South

Big Rob Rehab Clinic

Canadian Reunion

Canoeing Lesson (see below)

I've Got Anagrams, Eh?

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 (see below)

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.