MAR 30, singable satire: James Taylor sings "BABY JAMES SUITE"

    a) Reprise of material posted on March 30 in previous years ...

2020: pandemic poetry, the infirm (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, a Toyota's a Toyota (illustrated poem) 
2022: singable satire, Macadamias (parody lyrics)    
2023: singable satire, Reflux Romp (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 30, 2024):  

SATIRICAL (and wistful) LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Sweet Baby James",  by James Taylor. The song was presumably composed during a winter car-trip that Taylor made from Boston to North Carolina for the christening of Baby James, his nephew, and the first of a new generation in the Taylor family.   

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013 (despite its name it contains only a single song). It was added to Giorgio's original blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" as his fourteenth parody-song.

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

BABY JAMES SUITE

(to the tune of "Sweet Baby James") 

A young lonely ranch-hand takes shape in James’ mind 

As he slows behind snow-ploughs, quick-naps at a Daze-Inn;

Then he steers through clear traffic, babe-nephew to christen,

And blows past green road-signs to North Carolin’.

  

While musing o’er hues in his faux-cowboy’s scarf

Far-off plays this tune which we all know as fine,

A choir, disembodied, seems mainly to laugh,

And he ponders, horse-powering across the state line

As the moon starts her upward incline.

Slow-down for road construction,

Day-dreaming beer and old flames.

Surgical blues aren’t the colors to choose -

We’re glad he must have stopped for caffeine:

Deep Greens/Blues,
fiber-art, courtesy  R.C.H.

His fans adore Sweet Baby James.

Now the Great Lakes on Monday were dreary with snow,
And so per my e-mails were D.C. and Boston;

Lord, their Dad’s prone to SAD by account of our offspring,

Most worklife behind me, a few winter months to go.

There’s an earworm that plays when I’m stuck in the sigh-way

 A sad song contrived on a drive by “JT”,

A song we’ll escape where old fogeys retire,

We’ll unsaddle that song and its two puzzling themes

When we take to our place near the sea.

So Ciao, frozen char from the Arctic

Hey there! fresh flounder and grits.

The earworm is shared by a workmate named Shaun

Who helps shake me out of my sad fits:

We’re both great fans of Sweet Baby James.

MAR 29, Carolina lowcountry: early spring in coastal Carolina

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 29 in previous years ...

2020: mammalian wildlife, Geebo's angawantibo (illustrated poem)
2021: culinary verse, gyozas (potstickers) (illustrated poem) 
2022: binomial phrases, birds and bees (illustrated poem)
2023: homophonous verse, deserving (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 29, 2024): 

 

MAR 28, American satire: MAGAciousness

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 28 in previous years ...

2020: personal history, anniversary saga (illustrated poem)
2021: savoir-faire, chevre, goat cheese (illustrated poem) 

2022: California excursions, Berkeley (photo-collage)
2023: ambulatory verse, hop to it (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 28, 2024): pending 

 

Authors' Note:

 -some (SOHM, sometimes ZOHM): Greek suffix for an 

intracellular body, or organelle, e.g. chromosome or lysosome

-phagia, or -phagy: Greek suffix for eating, or consumption

lysis: term of Greek origin for destruction or disintegration

lysosome: cellular organelle adapted to the destruction of extracellular material which has been internalized

autophagosome: membranous organelle that entraps targeted intracellular components, later merging with lysosomes for degradation and recycling of these components; their role in cell defence and in disease causation is under investigation

 And, HERE's a verse about autophagia explaining use of the term to describe a rare and gruesome phenomenon. 

Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.

MAR 27, special events: visit to Brookgreen Gardens, SC

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 27 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, gazebos (illustrated poem)
2021: oncologic verse, facial nerve malfunction (poem) 

2022: death and afterlife, Will's last testament ( poem)
2023: reconstructive attitudes, starting point (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 27, 2024): 

 

The largest sculpture garden in the United States, Brookgreen Gardens  was founded in 1931; it has on display some 1500 outdoor sculptures in an incredible natural setting located at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. 

visit to Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina

"The Saint James Triad", bronze sculpture 1997,
Richard McDermott Miller 

"Torse de Femme", limestone sculpture 1989,
David Klass

"Time and the Fates of Man", bronze 1939,
Paul Manship

visitor admiring Spanish moss

a quiet, floral corner

"Pegasus", granite 1954,
Laura Gardin Fraser

"Girl with Squirrel", 
Sylvia Shaw Judson

"Diana of the Chase", bronze 1922,
Anna Hyatt Huntington

Other Brookgreen Gardens statuary has been used to illustrate a number of verses and song-lyrics on this blog-site. Interested readers might want to review. ..

"Egad! No bondage!" verse, Terminal (poetic) exclamation  

"Three Bears in our Hot-Tub", parody-song lyrics 

"Leda and the Swan", verse, Mythed opportunities

"Aurora and Tithonus", verse, Mythed opportunities.

MAR 26, postal places, Canada: Whistler, BC

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 26 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, springtime excursion (photo-collage)
2021: mammalian wildlife, woodchucks (illustrated poem) 

2022: bar-fauna, the Lizards' Lair (illustrated poem)
2023: defining opinion, hopeful (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 26, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note: BC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of British Columbia in which the resort-municipality of Whistler, permanent population 14,000, is located. Two million tourists visit Whistler annually for winter alpine sports, and for the summer pastimes of hiking and mountain biking.

Prior to European settlement, the site was the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations. Trappers and prospectors were gradually attracted, but completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 provided easy access from Vancouver, and brought logging and escalating tourism. The resort-city is named for the call of the hoary marmot, a ground squirrel dwelling at high elevations. The Whistler-Blackcomb area served as a major venue for "Vancouver 2010", the twenty-first Olympic Winter Games.

 

You can read more about the hoary marmot in another of our verses HERE.

At one swell foop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

 

MAR 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #8

    a) Reprise of material posted on March 25 in previous years ...

2020: holidays, Greek evzones (illustrated poem)
2021: lovers of classic languages, Greek (illustrated poem) 

2022: at heart, atrial fibrillation (poem)
2023: palindrome submitter, Melonia (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 25, 2024): 

 

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

MAR 24, Olympic sport: track relay

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 24 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, creeping fig saga (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, sex of foxes (poem) 

2022: California excursions, Oakland (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials L (wordplay)

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Greek natives, members of the diaspora and general enthusiasts might also enjoy our collection of illustrated verses on the subject of "Hellenophilia".  

b) Today's Offering (Mar 24, 2024):   

Olympic sport

track, relay

MAR 23, defining opinion: honorifics

 a) Reprise of material posted on March 23 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, little blue herons (illustrated poem)
2021: doctors and practices, colonoscopist (poem) 

2022: poetry of healthcare, treatment compliance (poem)
2023: saving the planet, last free lunch (photo + didactic)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 23, 2024): 

Authors' Note:  As pointed out by our comic interpreter and apocryphal city politician Dr. Al, titles and honorifics are often used in comic routines, such as those of the "Three Stooges" and "Monty Python", and in performers' pseudonyms like Dr. Demento and Dr. John.

 Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.

MAR 22, life in Palindrome Valley: politics

    a) Reprise of material posted on March 22 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #11 (wordplay)
2021: classic palindrome, madam, I'm Adam (illustrated poem) 

2022: organic brain poetry, non-organic vs organic (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, no D, no L -- London (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 22, 2024):  

You can review other illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'Life in Palindrome Valley' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

MAR 21, Olympic sport: tennis

  a) Reprise of material posted on March 21 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, tractor-seat plant (illustrated poem)

2021: commercial product, Dust, furniture protector (poem) 

2022: reptiles, anole pole-dancer (photo-collage)
2023: non-sequitur, far-flung family (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 21, 2024):                                                                 

              

       

Olympic sport       

tennis, singles 

                    

                                                        

MAR 20, singable satire: Elvis sings "RETURN TO 'SURRENDER' "

    a) Reprise of material posted on March 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, Canoe, Canoe, Canoe Canoe (parody-lyrics)
2021: singable satire, CALIfornia (parody lyrics) 

2022: singable satire, The Animals' Jabberwocky (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 20, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Torna a Surriento"; E. DeCurtis(music), G. DeCurtis(lyrics), 1902 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February, 2013. the thirteenth song posted on "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies", the original parody-blog.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Return to 'Surrender' " on your favorite instrument, click HERE.


The wonderful original song, written in Neapolitan, has been recorded by Caruso, Lanza, Pavarotti, and Bocelli among others. Its famous English knock-off, "Surrender" written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman in 1961 was widely popularized by Elvis Presley.
For this parody, the difficult words in Neapolitan have been replaced by names of Presley songs and movies.
The few remaining words are similar to modern Italian and readily understood. 
e = and
guarda = see
io = I

ma = but
'o = the 
tu dice = you say

STUCK ON ELVIS

(to the tune of "Torna A Surriento" - Return to Sorrento)

Vide ‘o movie Blue Hawaii 

Moonlight Swim e Aloha ‘Oe….

One Night, e Hawaiian Wedding

Io Can’t Help Falling In Love.

Guarda, gua’ Viva Las Vegas:

Santa Lucia, Tutti Frutti,
Bello Yellow Rose of Texas,

I Need Somebody to Lean On.

E tu dice "Please Surrender"
Stuck on You e Love Me Tender,(ma)

Girls, Girls, Girls, It's Now or Never.

You Gotta Stop  Your Cheating Heart.

  

Ma Don’t Be Cruel;
All Shook Up,  Cryin’ in the Chapel !

Return To Se-e-ender……

Heartbreak Ho-tel !