A Swing-Era Iconic Tune ("Satin Doll") Reborn: "LATIN CAT'S STRUT"

Post #145
PARODY LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Satin Doll". Music written in 1953 by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my satin doll."  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2017. 


TECHNICAL NOTES: The call 'switcherooney' at the end of the chorus has become an indispensable part of the lyrics of this song which appears to switch keys, but was written to end in the key of C.
For ease of singing, I have transposed it up a half-octave. The present version also shows the embellishment of the chords (9th to 7th) at the end of each verse, and has a few other chord enhancements.

SONG LINKS:  A 4-verse poetry collage in limerick form, originally published at OEDILF.com by Giorgio provided the thematic basis for this song. Transposed to music, the singable limericks are found on the present blog at post #138,  "The Delights of Anglo-Latin". 

For Giorgio's other songs about Latin, see post #26 and post #91.  

Wordplay Song for Canada Day: THIS LAND HAS ANAGRAMS

Post #144

PARODY LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "This Land Is My Land" 1956, The Travellers, with Canadian lyrics adapted from Woody Guthrie's 1940 American-based protest song.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2017.
WORDPLAY LINKS: The imaginary Canadian place-names derived from anagrams are found in 2 collections of Scramble-Town Maps on our sister-blog "Edifying Nonsense".
 "Real and Funky vs Imaginary Names" are tabulated separately for ... 
   Atlantic Canada, post #56
   and Western Canada, post #58 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Steve McNie, at torontoUKES.com, for guidance in chordcharts. Check out the TU songbook for his charts on "This Land Is My Land" (Canadian version), and his cyclist's parody-song "This Lane is My Lane". 

KEYWORDS: wordplay, Canada, goldenoldy

Background Considerations:

"The Rock" is a nickname for Newfoundland.

A synthesis of these factors leads to this cartographic formulation, which can't help but invoke a parody-song ... 

The Original Song (Canadian version)

Look at the bottom of this blogpost for singable powerpoint slides of the Travellers' version of the lyrics.

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

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.

THIS LAND HAS ANAGRAMS      

Alternate title:  "OUTLANDISH NERDPLAY"

(to the tune of "This Land Is My Land"). 

Performing suggestion: Get some of the ensemble to call out the 2-letter abbreviations (distinguished by larger-sized font) for the town-names in each version of the "Chorus" .

FOLLOW-UP NONSENSE

If you enjoyed the wordplay involved in these song lyrics, you can find further examples posted on our sister blog, "EDIFYING NONSENSE", as demonstrated here.