DEC 20, singable satire: Shania Twain sings "VERSE"

a) Review of material posted on December 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, Reduplications A to K (parody lyrics)  

2021: singable satire, Clothing-Moth Hat-Dance (parody lyrics)

2022: singable satire, Global Roasting Can Be Set Aside (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Nifty Ways to Leave your Mukluks (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 20, 2024):  SINGABLE SATIRE

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS  

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Up !"  is the lead song in the eponymous album recorded by Canadian pop-singer Shania Twain in 2002. The song, in a light country/western format, is notable for its use of a limerick-like rhyme, AABBA, in its five-line verses. As the metrical scansion of "Up!" doesn't quite fit with the anapestic (x-x-X) triple-rhythm of limericks, some changes were required to modify the traditional limerick stories recounted in this parody.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2018. The song ws performed at the Corktown Ukulele Jam in Toronto.

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  "VERSE!" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

"VERSE!"

(to the tune of "Up!" by Shania Twain)

| I'm hooked on verse| x4

Seems things have gone from bad to worse:
Can't be effusive, must be terse, 
I found an online limerick site,
That would accept my poems alright,
And now I'm hooked on 5-line verse. 

Spend all my time in writing 'lim's.
Don't socialize with hers or hims. 
My brainscan shows a funny bulge  
Where I store and I indulge
All my versifying whims.

Limn, limn, limn -  
A verb for 'suffuse with light'.
Lim, lim- 
Great poem if your scansion's right 
Lim, lim'rick - 
A lulu, it's out of sight. 

Out on Nantucket lived a man;
Kept all his cash hid close at hand, 
Until the day when Nan his daughter
She eloped, she shouldn't oughter,
Then she ran off with his can. 

A flee and fly inside a flue
They didn't know just what to do.
The flea opined that they should fly
The fly declined, I don't know why;
They couldn't find the flaw, can you? 

A lady traveler named Miss Bright
On trips made time faster than light.
One day with relatives (poor lass)
Converted energy to mass,
Then she returned the previous night. 

Limn, limn, limn -  
A verb for 'suffuse with light'.
Lim, lim -   
Great poem if your scansion's right 
Lim, lim'rick  - 
A lulu, it's out of sight.

AABBA 
AABBA
AABBA
... yeah  

On limerick verse here is my slant:
No question if you should or shan't. 
If you just take aim and edit
And don't rant; that's to your credit
Once you shoot, you can't recant.

So, I'm addicted: writing lims.
Don't socialize with hers or hims.
My brainscan shows a funny bulge  
Where I store and I indulge
All my versifying whims.

I'm hooked on verse;
On 5-line verse;
| I'm hooked on verse| x2

AABBA 
AABBA
AABBA

Yeah ! 

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