Uke-Song: "DARK SCHEMES" (Ochi Chornye), as might be sung by the Red Army Choir

Political parody
ORIGINAL SONG (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. Click HERE to return to the current post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", and to see the lyrics displayed without the chord indications.

SONGLINK: The same original song was used some time ago as the musical base for "PARODYSITISM", a bit of puffery in which the lyrics for an original song are substituted into a second song's tune. See post #74, "Ochi Chornye (Brown-Eyed Girl)" from 2015.  

 

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)
Click on any slide to enlarge and to move back and forth in thumbnail mode.

(FEB 9, 2023) singable saga: "NEWFOUNDLAND POTATO FAMINE" W-I-P

 

ORIGINAL  POETRY-LYRICS: The lyrics were originally composed in limerick format and submitted to OEDILF, an online humour dictionary, by Giorgio Coniglio in 2023, and can also be found published as a blogposted poem on, "DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE". Click HERE.