Saturday, 29 May 2021

Palindromic Uke-Song: "OTTO" ("Gnats stang; gnus sung")


PARODY-SONG with ukulele chords

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Bob" 2003, by Weird_Al_Yankovic, itself a parody of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean_Homesick_Blues", 1965


PARODY COMPOSED: by Giorgio Coniglio, February 2014.

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 view these lyrics and commentary (without images or chords)  displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Gnats Stang; Gnus Sung"



Weird Al Yankovic
Odd Al - Lad, do !






Weird Al took the lines of the original Dylan song, and made each one home to one or two PALINDROMES, i.e. phrases that can be read backward as well as forward. The  title "Bob" is a simple one-word palindrome, but his video satire of Dylan's song, (click the link for You-tube) with carefully selected palindromic phrases is masterful. 
There are a few hundred other examples of palindromic phrases; many are of the wrong length, grammatically bizarre, or seem politically incorrect. Strained, or even incorrect spelling is sometimes used,  e.g. pavillion, and may even enhance the humor.
With optimism, I assumed that there were enough good palindromes left over after Al had culled the most singable selection. I composed half of the palindromes chosen here for my own parody, took the others from published lists. My selection was directed by rhyming, admiration for the iconic Panama-canal classic, and  by freedom to pick more adult themes than those in W.A's opus. 




OTTO

(to the tune of "Subterranean Homesick Blues")

A man, a plan, a canal–Panama 
Uvula. A’ luv U;    Toronto–got no rot
Dennis, Madam, sinned;    Odd Al–Lad, do!
Amen, enema;    Wets dab noses on bad stew
Amor, a dab, bad aroma;    
1/38 palindromes in the "Bob" video
A Dan, a clan, a canal Canada?

Name tame mate, man;    Dog-doo! good God
To pseudonym enemy, no due spot      
A D-N-A, prefer panda
Wed on level, no dew;    Able ere Elba !
Drown in Word;    A yap, a Papa-papaya
Hair, a plain arc, cranial pariah

No ill, I’v a pavillion;    Llama, nix in a mall 
Diaper repaid;    Far again, Niagara F(alls).
Eh (Can.), a panache;    You boy! Yo, buoy!
I, Nina, place a caecal panini

Eh, çva, la vache!;     A lob, a rap-parabola
A dog, a plan, a canal - pagoda.
4 more years? Please no.

Flee to me, remote elf;    No levers revel on
Egad, no bondage;    Now, Roy, am I mayor won
Sex at noon taxes;    Elle, canal 
à nacelle
Lewd did I live, evil did I dwel'
Dammit, I’m mad;     A Santa deified at NASA
A tan, I plan a banal piñata.


Wontons–not now;  Trats stressed desserts, start!
Dr. of trams, smart Ford;   Draw eel leeward    
Zeus sees Suez;    Call–I’d a Cadillac. 
Came curt war, now I won raw truce, Mac
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
A Nan, a brat, a gnat stang a tar-banana !



Cadillac SUV, famous driver




Performing notes

[G7] A man, a plan, a canal–Panama 
Uvula. A’ luv U;    Toronto–got no rot
[C7] Dennis, Madam, sinned;    Odd Al–Lad, do!
[G7] Amen, enema;    Wets dab noses on bad stew
[C7] Amor, a dab, bad aroma;    
 A Dan, a clan, [D7] anal Cana[G]da


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Wednesday, 19 May 2021

s,o) Ranchers' Uke-Song: " STEM CELLS, DON'T LET YOUR DAUGHTERS GROW UP AS MEATLOAF"


PARODY-SONG with ukulele chords

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys", 1975,  (covered by) Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2013. 

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




STEM-CELLS, DON’T LET YOUR DAUGHTERS GROW UP AS MEATLOAF
(to the tune of "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys") 








 












Performing Notes

Enjoy chord-charts and lyrics at the Corktown Ukulele Jam songbook:
Corktunes: Stem Cells.....



[C] Cow-cells in vitro don’t moo, but they ain’t hard to [F] clone.
[G] Myocytes  can be lined up, much like neurons or [C] bone.  
Conveyor-belt ‘Dolly’s, on packing-house trolleys might [F] frighten consumers like you.  
PETA [G] surely will grouse if calves have to die young
To make BSE-free beef Ra[C]gú.

[C] Stem-cells, don’t let your daughter-cells grow up as [F] meatloaf;
Don’t [G] let ‘em be Big Macs or mulligan stew,
Make them be sirloins or prime ribs ‘au [C] jus’.
Stem-cells, don’t let your bovine genes morph into [F] burgers;
They’d [G] sure land up bunned, and likely be shunned by

Lovers of côtelettes-de-[C]-veau.








Sunday, 9 May 2021

Limerick-Uke-Saga: "METHYLATED SPIRITS", a singable "toxic vignette"


UKE-SONG, derived from lyrics of a multi-verse limerick

ORIGINAL POETRY VERSES: Verses composed by Giorgio Coniglio, October 2017. These have been poetically published under the rubric "Toxic Vignettes"  on the collaborative poetry website OEDILF, and on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as a "brief saga".  Click HERE for more sbout the brief saga.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: These verses can be sung to the tune of "Summertime" from the opera "Porgy and Bess" by Heyward and Gershwin, as per YouTube HERE 

To return to our blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense" for further explanation of the context and details of the song, or to see the lyrics without the chord designations, click HERE.

METHYLATED SPIRITS

(to the tune of "Summertime")










Authors' Note:  This tragic story is typical of events from Prohibition times in the U.S.A., but might still occur today.
Several different chemicals, 'denaturants', primarily toxic solvents, have been used by manufacturers to comply with regulations by taxation authorities and prevent the drinking of industrial ethanol. Frequently the latter is called 'methylated spirits', owing to the addition of the most commonly used denaturant, methanol, which is indistinguishable in appearance from ethanol, but routinely induces a life-threatening metabolic acidosis. The mixture may also be labelled as 'wood alcohol’ or ‘methyl hydrate’. Drinking denatured alcohol can still result in death or blindness in persons seeking an untaxed surrogate for consumer alcohol.
  Readers might be surprised to learn that Giorgio, now long retired, had been a fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology during the earlier part of his career, and retains some interest, if not expertise, in this rather obscure area. 


ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS for "Summertime", the recipient (host) song.
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).









Here's a surprise that may delight some readers. We located the chord-and-lyric charts for our earlier attempt to bring music to this poetic story. We think the effort using the Gershwin operatic tune was more successful, but you can compare them, and makeup your own mind.