Uke-Song: "REFLUX ROMP", decaffeinated brew

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Java Jive", The Ink Spots, 1940. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014, originally posted on this blogsite January 10, 2014 as post #12. Thanks to Steve McNie of Corktown Ukulele Jam / Toronto Ukes for providing chord charts and other help!

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REFLUX ROMP

(to the tune of "Java Jive")

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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

 F#dim7 = 2323;  Fdim7 =1212;  Gm7 = 0211;  E6 = 4444;  F6= 5555
Bb6 = 0211;  Bbm6 = 0111;  C5+7 = 1001;  Bb7 = 1211;  Bb9 =1213 

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS: JAVA JIVE

Cope with Sanka, it's decaf

It cuts the acid burn down by half.

If you can't purge that Java-jive urge

Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

Craving chilies cheery hot ?

Doc's got them jotted in the "ought not" slot!

Lesson you'll note in the back of your throat

Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

I love wine while dining fine

Wait! a late dinner-date at eight or nine!

When I recline and that wine is supine

Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

So hoist up the head of the stead of that bed

We'll slide out she said, bet we'll sled 'til we're dead.

A dose of Zantac whacks the acid.  Flaccid!

Function, function, G-E junction *.

Cope with Sanka, it's decaf

It cuts regurgitation down by half
If you can't purge that Java-jive urge
Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

Coffee urn! Gas burn!
Acid burn! Can't learn.

You know I've no control, sell my soul
To spurn prohibitions to caffeine. 

Your tongue may be furred from refractory GERD *

Your breath, in a word can deter a whole herd.

Confer with surgeon - a well-trained one, famed one!

Sphincter sloppy, lap'roscopy!

Cope with Sanka, it's decaf
It cuts the acid burn down by half.
If you can't purge that Java-jive urge
Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux !

*  Readers might want to review our lengthy (20-line) poem that explains the GE (gastro-esophageal junction) and GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease); click HERE ! 

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Related Palindromes:

Decaf-level faced.

Deficit-song. Aid diagnostic. I fed.

Lived on Decaf, faced no Devil.

o) Uke-Hymn: "The MAPLE LEAF AD INFINITUM", updated version

PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "The Maple Leaf Forever", by Alexander Muir, 1867

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013. 

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PHOTOS: from GoogleImages, several derived from the wonderful blogsite "Toronto Then and Now".

HISTORICAL EXPLANATION:

  The original anthem proposed themaple leaf as Canada’s national symbol, and acted for decades as the unofficial anthem of (English) Canada; it was officially replaced in 1980 by “O Canada”. The old tree which had presumably inspired the original lyrics was destroyed by a storm in July 2013.
   As pointed out in the blog "City in the Trees", the version we sang long ago in school evoked a Canada that extended from Cape Race in the east to the Pacific. In fact, at the time Muir created the song, Newfoundland and British Columbia were separate colonies, and the new country had only 4 provinces.  
   Research into the song's historic underpinnings, as portrayed here, as well as personal experience, evolved into the nostalgic piece "Canadian School Reunion" - see my prior post highlighting this parody-song.

"Maple Cottage" Leslieville,
(now part of Toronto)
Muir's residence  

1867: A fragile line

FURTHER SONGS ON THE SAME THEME: For other nostalgic takes on Canada's national hymns, you can view (and sing along with) ...

post #6 (December 2013) Canadian Reunion  

post #65 (January 2015)  Flight of the Loonie

post #181 (June 2018)  Something to Groan About

THE MAPLE LEAF ad Infinitum

(to the tune of Alexander Muir's "Maple Leaf Forever")

Robert Stanley Weir
 lyricist

Calixa Lavallee
 composer

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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Uke-Song: "LET US DO IT" (after Cole Porter) lyrics by Guest Parody-Artist Al Silver:

Cole Porter, composer

PARODY-LYRICS: GUEST-ARTIST

ORIGINAL SONG: "Let's Do It" 1928, Cole Porter 

PARODY COMPOSED: Al Silver, 2013, with permission. Al has been a frequent contributor to the AmIRight song-parody website.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: Return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (you can view Al's delightful lyrics along with some commentary, without images or chords displayed HERE, or as originally displayed on the website at AmIRight.com Post "Let's Do IT"

Irene Bordoni,
 French chanteuse
star of Porter's musical
 "Paris", 1929

LET US DO IT 

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

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] Birds [F] do it, [Gm7] bees [C7] do it;

[F] White House [F7] interns on their [Bb6] knees [Bbm6] do it;

[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Dm] [Gm7] 

On [C+5] grocery [F6] shelves [F] Keebler [Gm7] elves [C7] do it;
[F] Clergy [F7] praying by them[Bb6]selves [Bbm6] do it;

[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

[A7+5] Insects in [Dm] flight  late at [Bb6] night do it, [Am7]

But they raise such a [Cm] din. [F7]

[Bb*] Leno can't [Eb7] quite do it,

[Ab] 'Cause he uses his [Gm7] chin.  

[C+5] Seigfried and [F6] Roy [F] boy on [Gm7] boy [C7] do it;

[F] Quakers with a [F7] minimum of [Bb6] joy [Bbm6] do it;

[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

Compare this with the original......

[F6] Birds [F] do it, [Gm7] bees [C7] do it;
[F] Even [F7] educated  [Bb6] flees  [Bbm6] do it; 
[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Dm] [Gm7] 

In [C+5] Spain the [F6] best [F] upper [Gm7] sets [C7] do it; 
[F] Lithu[F7]anians and [Bb6] Letts [Bbm6] do it; 
[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

The Dutch in [Dm] old Amster[Bb6]dam do it, [Am7]

Not to mention the [Cm] Finns. [F7]

[Bb*] Folks in Si[Eb7]am do it,

[Ab] Think of Siamese [Gm7] twins. 

 [C+5] Some [F6] Argen[F]tines without [Gm7] means [C7] do it;
[F] People say in [F7] Boston even [Bb6] beans [Bbm6] do it;  
[F6] Let's [F] do it, [Gm7] let's [C7] fall in [F] love. [Gm7] [F]

Uke-Song: "DARK SCHEMES" (Ochi Chornye) -- hacking, as extolled by the Red Army Choir

PARODY-ONG with UKULELE CHORDS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS (music): "Ochi Chornye (Dark Eyes)", poem written in Russian by Ukrainian poet Hrebinka in 1843, set to music in 1884; recorded by Al Jolson, Django Reinhart, Louis Armstrong, Red Army Choir, Fyodor Chaliapin, Ivan Rebroff etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2018. 

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SONGLINK: The same original song was used some time ago as the musical base for "PARASIT-ody", a bit of puffery in which the lyrics for an original song are substituted into a second song's tune. See "Ochi Chornye (Brown-Eyed Girl").  

 

DARK SCHEMES (RUSSIAN HACKING)

(to the tune of "Dark Eyes" ("Ochi Chornye")

UKULELE FRIENDLY VERSION (and guitar, too!)

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

Chord specifics for C-tuned uke:

D7 = 0202 or 2223;  Gm = 0231;  Cm = 0333 

At this point you might wish to return to the post 'Singable Lyrics: Novel Melodies for Limericks' HERE. 


ORIGINAL SONG
(Russian version per Chaliapin, and English translation)
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