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

PARODY-LYRICS

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

PARODY COMPOSED: by Giorgio Coniglio, February 2014.

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, ça va, 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

Uke-Song: "EVEN MORE TWISTED VERSE"

PARODY-LYRICS, based on classical poetry (limericks), a continuation of earlier posts.

ORIGINAL SONG: "Simple Twist of Fate" Bob Dylan 1975; covers by Diana Krall and Sean Costello are recommended.
ORIGINAL POETRY: For this post the underlying poetic works were taken from a variety of authors, with lyrics 'enhanced by Bob Dylan'.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2016. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE. 

CONTENTS: (see earlier posts for verses 1-7) 
8. "There was a young lady of station" - Lewis Carroll 
9. "A wonderful bird is the pelican" - Dixon Merritt 
10. "There was a young lady named Bright" - Reginald Buller
11. "There was an old man of Peru" - Edward Lear 
12. "There was a young fellow of Wheeling" - traditional 
13. "Hickory dickory dock" - traditional
14. "People say it makes them sick" - Giorgio Coniglio


(Yet Another) SIMPLE TWIST OF VERSE

(to the tune of "Simple Twist of Fate": Lyrics by Bob Dylan, modified from the classic versions)

8. “I love Man” – sole exclamation 
Of a young lass high in station 
(“Isle of Man” her explanation); 
“You flatter”, men believed,  
And yes, they were deceived. 
“No matter” if she flirts,
As she asserts in this Lewis Carroll verse.  

9. A wondrous bird – the pelican
His bill holds more than his belican 

I’m damned if I see how the helican 

Take all that in his beak -  

Food enough for a week;  

I guess the bird rehearses   

Weekly for this simple twist of verse. 

10. A lady traveller named Miss Bright 

Exceeded ‘c’, the speed of light, 

Returned from trips the previous night  

That she’d started the next day 

In a relative way.  

That’s Einstein’s universe  

Reflected in a simple twist of verse.

11. There was an old man of Peru;
One day his young wife made a stew. 

Folks thought she knew just what to do, 

Cause from their house she ran.  

He was found in their stewing pan;  

Which triggered some alerts 

For older guys in this simple twist of verse. 

12. A sensitive young guy from Wheeling
Found the coach-door sign revealing. 

So he jumped, spat on the ceiling; 

Rather than the floor,  

As instructions did implore:  

Train signage known for terseness   

Spoofed in this twisted lim’rick verse.

13. Hick’ry dick’ry dick’ry dock
A timid mouse ran up the clock. 

The time had come for taking stock; 

So when the clock struck ten,  

He ran down the clock again,  

For better or for worse;   

As Dylan sang in this twisted nursery verse. 

14. People say it makes them sick
To hear too many limericks; 

I fear it has become my shtick 

But now I’ve lost the knack, 

With no good jokes to crack –  

A tendency perverse; 

Stick the blame on a simple twist of verse. 

HOT LINKS TO "SONGS ABOUT LIMERICKS"
Dark Schemes (Russian Hacking)
Novel Melodies
Simple Twist of Verse
(Another) Simple Twist of Verse
(Yet another) Simple Twist of Verse
Verse!

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

see Post #127