Dante's Inferno, Canto#1b: "THE TOUR GUIDE KNOWN AS 'VIRGIL' "

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "The City of New Orleans" Steve Goodman, 1970, as performed by Arlo Guthrie (also covered by Woody Nelson, many others)
OIGINAL POEM: "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, April 2015. To return to the current post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE. 

Virgil and Dante
"The Onlookers"
A-W Bouguereau

"The Thinker" from "The Gates of Hell"
 by Rodin may represent Dante 

THE TOUR GUIDE KNOWN AS 'VIRGIL'

(to the tune of "City of New Orleans", Guthrie version)

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT: 

(Click on any chord-chart slide to advance to 'presentation/singalong' mode.)

Uke-song: "EWE-YEW-YOU", medley from the musical "The Sound of Homonyms"

PASTICHE WITH PARODY SONG-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Do-Re-Mi", as performed by Julie Andrews and the cast of von Trapp children in the 1965 film version of the musical hit "The Sound of Music". The song was composed by Rogers and Hammerstein for the stage version of the iconic American musical, which premiered in 1959 featuring Mary Martin in the lead role of "Maria". 

PARODY COMPOSED: To see Giorgio's parody-lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE.  

 PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.  To return to the current post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.