OCT 30, singable satire: "LATIN CAT'S STRUT"

PARODY LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Satin Doll". Music written in 1953 by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer. Recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my satin doll." 

 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2017. In the first instance, some ideas for a discussion of Anglo-Latin resulted in the multi-verse limerick poem "Anglo-Latin (and Anglo-Greek)".

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "LATIN CAT'S STRUT" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

EXPLANATION: Words and expressions of Latin origin permeate English terminology used in law, medicine and biology, the arts and philosophy. The pronunciation of scholarly 'Anglo-Latin' differs from and is more complex than that of classical Latin; e.g. flatus (Anglo-Latin FLAY-tuhs; classical Latin FLAH-toos) is a medical term for bowel gas. Anglo-Latin expressions for 'and others' - et cetera, and et alia (eht AY-lee-ya, as here) both have several pronunciations.

LATIN CAT'S STRUT

(to the tune of "Satin Doll")

Schema for using Anglo-Latin:
Flaunt in, or chant in, ... or just chat in;
Chew-the-fat in ... flat you won't fall.

A lingua that swings with...  regalia,
Geranium, amici ... genitalia,
Et alia; ... flat you won't fall. 

Lends a scholarly bent
To whatever you've meant, Q.E.D. !
Fungi and foci and loci and algae (AL-gahy), or al-DJEE?
(Nota Bene!)

Euphonious tweak: tones... smooth as satin,
Pick Anglo-Greek, peer of Latin, 
Name a frat in. Flat you won't fall.

Hang onto your hat now, if 
Scattin' in Latin's your biz.
Cause it's strictly ad hoc to list
Classical schlock using viz.
(videlicit)!

The angle is that: use ... Anglo-Latin,
Flatus you're venting; ... don't flatten !
Cool cats, you .. won't have to crawl.

a few further verses can be found with on the blogsite "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE!