PARODY-LYRICSORIGINAL SONG: "The Twelve Days of Christmas", traditional carol, of English or possibly French origin, published in its current known form by Frederic Austin 1909.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January, 2016. To see Giorgio's parody-lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE.
This parody-song is just in time for Christmas-tide (the Twelvetide).
Recently there has been some emphasis on the excessive use of
multi-vitamin supplementation pills in the general population. But, many of our processed foods are already enriched with these essential chemical nutrients, and freedom from
vitamin-deficiency diseases (avitaminoses), such as rickets, beriberi and
pellagra is a gift for all mankind.
The pronunciation of the chemical names
is a bit difficult, and for some of them, alteration from the usual format was
necessary to fit the meter of the original song; these instances have been flagged by capital
letters indicating the vowels which require unusual emphasis; e.g. ribOflavin, pEllagra.
The bracketed material
is included for edification and for comparison with the original
lyrics, and is not meant to be sung. In the second verse, (?)indicates cases in which a clinical deficiency state is not certain.
THE AVITAMINOSES
(to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"- final verse)
(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)
Avitaminoses (see below)
...AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS
Singable Limerick-Medley #17: Nuclear Cardiology
Singable Limerick-Medley #20: Medical Imaging
