) Review of material posted on December 30 in previous years ...
2020: singable satire, And No Birds Sing (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, In Days of York (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Carolina Winter Morning (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Auld Lang's Sine, song version (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Auld Lang's Sine, song version (parody lyrics)
b) Today's Offering (Dec 30, 2024):
ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" is a song composed by Harry McClintock in 1928, also recorded by Burl Ives, Johnny Cash etc.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2014.
EXPLANATION:
The original song is a described as a folk music song about a hobo's version of paradise, a modern extension of the medieval concept of "Cockaigne".
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" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions.
To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
EXPLANATION:
The original song is a described as a folk music song about a hobo's version of paradise, a modern extension of the medieval concept of "Cockaigne".
BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC
On a private flight
To escape from sight,
A burly mayor sat drinking.
“Who’d shoot video
Here in Chicago?
It could get a guy to thinking."
This song he sang
As he dreamed he’d hang
In a land with no detection,
Where a mayor’s rants get a second chance,
Then go home for the Election.“Oh-ohhhhhhhhh!
The buzzing in my brain,
Pass that bottle once again
Soon we’re going to show those cynics.
It’s so easy to fly straight
I’ll get fit and lose some weight,
At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
“In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic
They’ve ashtrays if you smoke.
Staff will be compassionate
When you step outside to toke.”
“The landscaped grounds are lush with flowers,
With surveillance cameras blind.
No reporters spy,
You can still get high.
You can smoke some crack
On the pond out back
In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
Some workout in the gym,
Go to chapel, sing a hymn,
Double-double chez Tim Horton.
Guess the coke has got to go
Like my town, Etobicoke,
No more pics of pipes or snortin’.”
You shouldn’t pass a roach,
There’s quite a few big-screen TVs
And the waiters call you Coach.”"When there’s a Big Game on the air,
They postpone Group Therapy.
In your room there’re snacks,
With no charge or tax;
So you’re in control
And not on the dole
In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
“Ohhhhhhhhhh!
Some workout in the gym,
Go to chapel, sing a hymn,
Double-double chez Tim Horton.
Guess the coke should really goLike my town, Etobicoke,
No more shots of pipes or snortin’.”
“In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic
You text or yack ad lib,
They don’t approve the one ‘Big Lie’,
But there’s lots of little fibs.”
“I know that More Responsible ’s
An option to select - at
A later date.
Make Ford Nation wait?
They need spending pruned
And more subways soon
- Maybe, once I’m re-elected.”
“Ohhhhhhhhhh!
The buzzing in my brain
Pass that bottle once again
Soon we’ll finger-sign those critics. (GESTURE!)
It’s so easy to fly straight
I’ll get fit and lose some weight,
At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.
At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
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