o) Uke-Song: "(Still) UNDER MY OWN STEAM", part #2, continuing geriatric odyssey

PARODY-LYRICS, a reprise

ORIGINAL SONG: "I've Been Everywhere", by Lucky Starr, covered by Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Stompin' Tom Connors, and others. 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: see part #1 of this parody-song by Giorgio Coniglio, June 2013. Further verses were added, to create this reprise in December 2015.

 

PARODY WORD-LINK:  To see the lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE.


  This song is dedicated to the memory of my father. Apart from a fierce determination to retain independent mobility, he was a highly responsible family man and bore little resemblance to the footloose and perhaps rascally hero of this piece. He was however an ardent admirer of rhyming patter, and would likely have enjoyed this song.

  You can view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Under My Own Steam"

STILL UNDER MY OWN STEAM, part #2

(to the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)

I like doing this song with progressive key changes, as in the Lucky Starr versions of the song; or if you like you can keep it simple like Johnny Cash did, and leave it all in the key of C.

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o) Divine Comedy, Inferno: Canto#2, "BEA WANTS TO KEEP HER EYE ON YOU"

Beatrix Beata,
 by D.G. Rossetti

UKE-SONG: PASTICHE WITH PARODY SONG-LYRICS.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad, "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.

ORIGINAL SONG: "I Only Want To Be With You", Hawker and Raymonde, as recorded by Dusty Springfield, 1964.

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

BEA WANTS TO KEEP HER EYE ON YOU

(to the tune of "I Only Want to Be with You")

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

The ukulele chord pattern is shown for the verses and for each 'chorus', although the lyrics change for each instance of the chorus-pattern.
Gm7 =0211;  Abdim7=1212.

INTRO: |chords for last 2 lines of verse| 

Compare with the original.......

I [F] don't know what it is that makes me [Dm] love you so,
I [F] only know I never want to  [Dm] let you go
'Cause [Bb] you started [C] something, oh [Gm7] can't you [C] see 
That [F] ever since we met you've had a  [Dm] hold on me
It [Gm7] hap[Am7]pens [Gm7] to [Abdim] be [C] true, 
I [Gm7] only want to [C] be with [F] you [Bb], [C7]

chorus: 
[C#] You stopped and smiled at me, and [F] asked me if I  [Bb] cared to [F] dance,
[C] I fell into your open [Am] arms, and [Dm7] I didn't stand a [G7] chance,
Now listen honey….…

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Limerick-Uke-Saga: "ANAGRAM SWARM"

 

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

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS: Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, November 2016. 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 (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 transitioning 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". But on occasion we have also used (minor modifications may be required)  "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime", "Up", and "Santa Lucia".

SONG-LINKS: Check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with brief sagas. 

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