o) Uke-Song, Denial Laiden: "BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC"

PARODY-LYRICS, reappearing after a decade ...

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" Harry McClintock 1928, also recorded by Burl Ives, Johnny Cash etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2014.

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

Of interest, the original song is a described as a folk music song about a hobo's version of paradise, a modern extension of the medieval concept of "Cockaigne".

BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC

  

(to the tune of "Big Rock Candy Mountain")

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Uke-Song: anthem for limericists; Shania Twain's "VERSE!"

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

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Up!"  is the lead song in the eponymous album recorded by Shania Twain in 2002. The song, in a light country/western format, is notable for its use of a limerick-like rhyme, AABBA, in its five-line verses. As the scansion of "Up!" doesn't fit perfctly with the anapestic (x-x-X) triple-rhythm of limericks, some changes were required to modify the traditional limerick stories recounted in this parody.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2018. 

PARODY-LYRICS LINK: To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE. 

"VERSE!"

(to the tune of "Up!" by Shania Twain)


UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT (and guitar, too)
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ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
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HOTLINKS TO OTHER CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

An Alien Heading South

Big Rob Rehab Clinic

Canadian Reunion

Canoeing Lesson

I've Got Anagrams, Eh?

Flight of the Loonie

FOP-Shop Wine

Mergerwocky

Off-Patent Drug #19

Prattle of New Orleans

Suburbs' Guy

The Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum 

This Land Has Anagrams

TTC Voices

Vancouver's Isle

..AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS

Shania Twain's "Verse": An anthem for limericists. See below.

Canada Day 2015 (singable limericks)

Limericks About Chemainus, B.C.