JUN 30, singable satire: "UNDER MY OWN STEAM", part #2

 

PARODY-LYRICS, a reprise

ORIGINAL SONG: "I've Been Everywhere", by Lucky Starr, covered by Hank Snow, Johnny Cash et al. 

PARODY COMPOSED: see part #1 of this parody-song by Giorgio Coniglio, June 2013; it was eventually posted here on this blog in June 2022 further verses were added, to create this reprise in December 2015.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "UNDER MY OWN STEAM, part 2" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.


  This song is dedicated to the memory of my father. Apart from a fierce determination to retain independent mobility, he was a highly responsible family man and bore little resemblance to the footloose and perhaps rascally hero of this piece. He was however an ardent admirer of rhyming patter, and would likely have enjoyed this song.

STILL UNDER MY OWN STEAM, part #2

(to the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")

A couple o' years went by, and I landed back in town;

There'd been some friendly people working there, so I thought I'd mosey down;

I found  another nice person, the Geriatric resident.

She said, "Take your time, Pops", and so I thought that I could vent;

I told her that this time she'd need take more extensive notes

Because I'd left out a lot ot ways that I got 'round to sow my oats.

Chorus:
I’ve gone every way, Doc

Traveling is my play, Doc  

Need to get around, Doc   

‘Til I’m in the ground, Doc

I’ve lived out my own dream, Doc

Under my own steam.

   

I’ve swayed sashayed, ricocheted, ambled gambolled, rambled scrambled,
Trekked meandered, tramped traversed, roamed and wandered, shuffled shambled,

Strolled patrolled, promenaded, marched and sauntered, strutted swaggered, 

Vacillated, drifted wavered, faltered halted, stumbled staggered,   

Lurked and skirted, sneaked and slunk, vamoosed cowered, skipped skedaddled,

Fled absconded, disappeared, undulated, tailed and shadowed.

Chorus:

I've danced pranced, waltzed and balanced, jogged advanced and ants-in-pantsed,

Reeled gyrated, posed paraded, demonstrated, held-my-stance,

Lumbered rhumba-ed, blundered scuttled, stowed squatted, plunged marauded,

Pitched yawed, soared floated, bounded teetered, padded trod,

Hastened braked, decelerated, dragged lugged, barged and dredged,

Pursued escaped, hunted shunted, zigzagged bee-lined, rounded edged.

I’ve gone every way, Doc

Traveling is my play, Doc  

Need to get around, Doc   

Til I’m in the ground, Doc

I’ve lived out my own dream, Doc

Under my own steam .

Crept and scooted, wobbled toddled, tiptoed frolicked, jived cavorted,

Pussyfooted, hopped and bounced, bellyflopped, dived escorted,

Glided slid, skidded skied, schussed toboganned, sledded slipped,

Stamped slogged, plodded dodged, limped hobbled, trudged and tripped,

Skated waded, deviated, pirouetted, navigated, 

In memoriam, N.H.

Circulated, ambulated, dawdled doddered, terminated.

I’ve gone every way, Doc

Made it every day, Doc  

Deserted, seldom stayed, Doc   

Breezed past, mosied, strayed, Doc

I’ve lived out my own dream, Doc

Under my own steam.   

Under my own steam!