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"

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", click HERE (You can also find a simpler version of the parody-lyrics displayed without the 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.

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 !!!     
1a. "Alliterative Binomials, part#1"

(1b. "Alliterative Binomials, part#2")

2a. "Rhyming Binomials, part#1"

2b. "Rhyming Binomials, part#2"

3.  "A Lesson about Reduplications" (not a patter-song)

4a. "Reduplications, part#1"

4b. "Reduplications, part#2",

5.  "No Elements", 3rd declension Latin nouns

6.  "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", Latin adjectival listing

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.

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS:

A limerick: a verse that is singable

(If the diction's not flagrantly flingable);

Brings a humorous note

To a view you'd promote -- 

And it rings, like a bell ding-alingable.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

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). 

 

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