DEC 30 (2023), singable satire: "POLYVINYL for MILLENIA"

SATIRICAL LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Carolina in the Morning" written 1922, best-known version is performed by Al Jolson.

PARODY COMPOSED:  Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014. The initial accompanying photos are borrowed from various online websites; the final pair are attributable to Giorgio and his trusty cellphone camera.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "POLYVINYL for MILLENIA" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

POLYVINYL for MILLENIA


(to the tune of "Carolina in the Morning")



What could be more drastic than our seas awash in plastic for millenia?
Plastic junk accumulates and traps or blocks the GI tracts of fauna.
Landfills are offenders; poly-bags wind blown,
Threatening fragile creatures in the intertidal zone.

Vortices of sea-dumped trash, like "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" keep growing;.
Astronauts can even spot them from their place in space; up there, they're showing.
If we had Aladdin's lamp and only one wish, 
We'd ask, not me, but seals, whales and fish - 
Every Jane and Michael, it's not hard, so please recycle all your pla-a-astic. 

What could be more drastic than our seas awash in plastic for millenia?
Particles accumulate, then hydrocarbons degradate in fauna.
Population's highest, polluting near the shore.
Altering constitution of the worldwide ocean floor.

Jellyfish get jealous of those gels the plankton relish for their vinyl,
Seasoning our seafood and inciting crude reactions that are final.
If we had Aladdin's lamp and only one wish, 
We'd ask, not me, but seals, whales and fish,

Every Jane and Michael, it's not hard, so please recycle all your pla-a-astic. 

real-life brown pelican
 perched on a post 

Pete, the  plastic pelican