PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.
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| Occasional binomials show alliteration (e.g. one and only) |
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the third of nine in the series on Word Pairs. You can find the links to the lyrics of the previous songs at the bottom of the post.
CHORD-CHARTS etc. As is usually the case with song-lyrics, we have simultaneously provided suggested chords for ukulele, guitar or whatever-stringed-instruments for the parody and for the original lyrics on our music-buff site "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE".
To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "ALLITERATIVE BINOMIALS #2" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
phrases include some of the most colorful expressions in English. There are probably a thousand binomial expressions in the English language. To enhance the singability, I have skewed my selection of binomial pairs here, to emphasize those that have alliteration of the 2 elements.
For discussion of binomials, see the recent post HERE; there is a also an earlier post that honors our previous exploration of these intriguing expressions, and is entitled "The Allure of Word-Pairs: Alliterative Binomials (compendium)".
UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". Click HERE to proceed to this site.
There's bag and baggage, belles and beaus, and Beauty/Beast, and do or die
And cliques and clans, and dark and dank, and dungeons/dragons, flee or fly;
Head over heels, and mine and mill, and kith and kin, and two for tea
And cliques and clans, and dark and dank, and dungeons/dragons, flee or fly;
Head over heels, and mine and mill, and kith and kin, and two for tea
And mind and matter, dear departed, flew through flue, the fly and flea.
There’s vim and vigor, pain or pleasure, fast and furious, slow but sure
And watching/waiting, safe or sorry, walking wounded, kill or cure
And grins and giggles, hems and haws, and his and hers, guys/gals (or dolls)
And quake and quiver, black and blue, right/wrong, St. Peter's and St. Paul's.
And watching/waiting, safe or sorry, walking wounded, kill or cure
And grins and giggles, hems and haws, and his and hers, guys/gals (or dolls)
And quake and quiver, black and blue, right/wrong, St. Peter's and St. Paul's.
There’s stress and strain, and short and stout, and scratch and save, and shirts and shorts
Shoes/socks, and art and artifice, and toil and trouble, tarts and tortes
And read and write, bold/beautiful, and beg or borrow, this-and-thats
Moon o'er Miami, baked and battered, where or when, and heads and hats.
Shoes/socks, and art and artifice, and toil and trouble, tarts and tortes
And read and write, bold/beautiful, and beg or borrow, this-and-thats
Moon o'er Miami, baked and battered, where or when, and heads and hats.
There's prince and pauper, prim and proper, pots and pans, and put-upon
And drunken and disorderly, warp/woof, wrack/ruin, and AlAnon.
The order of paired elements - important? yes, no, may-aybe;
Be careful not to throw out the bathwater with the ba-aby.
Yet, slip and slide, not hair nor hide, the definition gets defied,
Like 'Prejudice' before the 'Pride', so 'side by side' is classified
With home sweet home, rose is a rose, eye for an eye, and nose to nose -
These phrases pose the gap to close that spaces poetry from prose.
There's Jack and Jill, from dusk 'til dawn, bumper to bumper, inch by inch,
And first and foremost, hand in hand, with spice and sugar, just a pinch.
"What's right is right, what's fair is fair", said more and more by Mo-other,
From sea to shining sea, if it's not one thing, it's ano-other.
And, for those interested, here's how you find the lyrics-only-version
of the nine songs that make up this cycle. If you would like to accompany yourself on ukulele or guitar, find relevant chord charts by following the links that will take you to the versions in our blog "Silly Songs and Satire".
1. PAIRS, to the tune of "Words" in the style of the Beegees
... the following songs in the style of "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer
9. LEGALISTIC DOUBLETS, in the style of "Supercalifragilistic..." from the musical "Mary Poppins"
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