ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:
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.
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 chord-charts to help you accompany
"Saturday Night?" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
You can also view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website where they were first developed at AmIRight.com Post
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?
These lyrics have been moved, along with ukulele chord suggestions, to a posting on our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire".
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