Uke-Song: "BABY JAMES SUITE", homage to James Taylor

PARODY-LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Sweet Baby James",  by James Taylor. The song was presumably composed during a winter car-trip that Taylor made from Boston to North Carolina for the christening of Baby James, his nephew, and the first of a new generation in the Taylor family. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013 (despite its name it contains only a single song). It was added to Giorgio's original blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" as his fourteenth parody-song. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

BABY JAMES SUITE

(to the tune of "Sweet Baby James") 

Uke- Song: RETURN TO "SURRENDER" (Stuck on Elvis)

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Torna a Surriento"; E. DeCurtis(music), G. DeCurtis(lyrics), 1902 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February, 2013. the thirteenth song posted on "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies", the original parody-blog.
To see the lyrics displayed more concisely without the chord-indications (and to return to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"), click HERE.  


The wonderful original song, written in Neapolitan, has been recorded by Caruso, Lanza, Pavarotti, and Bocelli among others. Its famous English knock-off, "Surrender" written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman in 1961 was widely popularized by Elvis Presley.
For this parody, the difficult words in Neapolitan have been replaced by names of Presley songs and movies.
The few remaining words are similar to modern Italian and readily understood. 
e = and
guarda = see
io = I

ma = but
'o = the 
tu dice = you say

STUCK ON ELVIS

(to the tune of "Torna A Surriento" - Return to Sorrento)

Performing Notes

[Gm] Vide ‘o movie Blue Hawaii 

[Cm] Moonlight Swim e Aloha [Gm] ‘Oe….

One [Cm] Night, e Hawaiian [Gm] Wedding

[D] Io Can’t  Help [D7] Falling In [Gm] Love

[G] Guarda, gua’ Viva Las [Am] Vegas:

[D] Santa Lucia, Tutti [G6] Frutti,

[G] Bello Yellow Rose of [Am] Texas,

I [D] Need Somebody to Lean [G] On

[G] E tu dice ‘Please Sur-[Am]-render ’
[B7] Stuck on You e Love Me [Em] Tender,(ma)

Girls, Girls, [Cm] Girls, It's Now or [G] Never

You [D] Gotta [D7] Stop  Your  Cheating [G] Heart

  

Ma [GM7] Don’t [G6] Be [Am7] Cruel [Am]
[D] All  Shook Up  [D7] Cryin’ in the [G6] Chapel !

Re[Cm]turn To [G5+7] Se-e-en[Gm]der……

[D] Heart[D7]break  Ho-[Gm]-tel !

"Surrender"  (original song)

Gm
When we kiss my heart's on fire
Cm                                        Gm
Burning with a strange desire, 

          Cm                          Gm
And I know each time I kiss you

D                D7                     Gm
That your heart's on fire too.

G                                          Am

So, my darling please surrender............

"Torna a Surriento" (original song)

Gm
Vide ‘o mare quant’è bello
Cm                       Gm

Spira tantu sentimento, 
              Cm                  Gm

Comme tu a chi tiene mente
D         D7                    Gm

Ca scetato ‘o faje sunà. 

G                                       Am
Guarda, gua’ chistu ciardino.

D                                    G6
Siente, sie’ sti sciure arance:
G                                 Am
Nu profumo accussi fino
D                                  G

Dinto ‘o core e se ne va.

G                                  Am   
E tu dice “I’ parto, addio!”
B7                            Em

T’alluntane da stu core
     Cm                        G

De sta terra de l’ammore,
D             D7                   G

Tiene ‘o core e nun turnà?

     Gmaj7         G6    Am7  Am
Ma nun  me lassà !
D           D7                 G6       G

Nun darme stu turmiento 
Cm                G5+7  Gm

Torna  a  Sur-rien-to,
D           D7    Gm
Famme cam-pà !