DEC 10, singable satire: "SATURDAY"

a) Review of material posted on December 10 in previous years ...

2020: holidays and celebrations, Chanukah (OEDILFian limericks)  
2021: birdlore, avian digestion (poem - 'brief saga')

2022: braincheck, hemianopsia (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: singable satire, Avitaminoses (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 10, 2024): 

The Beatles' "SATURDAY NIGHT", with Thanks to Elton John and a Nod to Oscar Wilde

ORIGINAL SONG#1:  "Yesterday", Beatles song written for the album Help!, Paul McCartney, 1965. 

ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin, 1973. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2015.

Note on the Parody lyrics: Among Oscar Wilde's most famous sayings, “Work is the curse of the drinking classes”

SATURDAY NIGHT as sung by the "Beatles" 

(to the Beatles' tune, "Yesterday")

Getting late

Wanna little action on my plate

Ma, your discipline just aggravates

I wanna rock; where are my mates?

Sis looks cute

Hair all greased up, in her dancing-boots

Seven bells, my old man’s really juiced,

That monkey; Ma don’t give a hoot.

Saturday

It’s alright for fightin’; play that game!

I’ll be oiled as a diesel train

A beer-filled belly; why refrain?

Set this dance alight

It’s alright; we’re gonna fight.

I’ll do something wrong,

Then be strong to set things right!

Stubbornly

I’ll use muscle to get what I need

Find some dolly hanging over me,

From shadows shout out, “She’s with me!”

Party night

It’s a night whose sounds I really like 

Like a switchblade and a motorbike

Wilde’s ‘drinking class’ – I’m just its tyke.

Saturday’s the night I like!

Mm mm, mm mm, mm mm-mm.

 

(to the Elton John tune)

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night’s alright.

(back to the Beatles' tune)

Saturday's the night I like.