JUN 20, singable satire: "SKITTISH DOLL"

 

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "Satin Doll"  is a jazz ballad with music written in 1953 by Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer, recorded subsequently by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my Satin Doll."

So, could it hurt if she spoke Yiddish?  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July, 2017. The song was revised and performed recently (2025) a the Ukes of York ukulele-jam. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "SKITTISH DOLL" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

Couple dancing, 1958,
at their son's Bar Mitzvah party.

SKITTISH DOLL      

(to the tune of "Satin Doll") 

Chicken soup served with gold ladles,
Live band, ice sculpture, sweet tables;
Speaks Yiddish, my skittish doll.

Cousin's Bar Mitzvah, ... wire lift dress,
Built kind of zaftig -- a 'princess',
Speaks Yiddish, my skittish doll.

Uncle Seymour is right:
When I'm near, she's uptight as can be;
Cause she's noticed me drool
And she ain't cool 'bout fooling with me
(kenahora!).

After the dinner, candle lighting,
Alone in the corner, looks inviting,
Fingers wander, but that is all.
Slaps hand back, my skittish doll.
Can't mess with ... my skittish doll.

This piece was submitted to "Medium", November 2025.

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