Lyrics for Singable Satire: The Irish Rovers sing "VANCOUVER'S ISLE"

  

PARODY LYRICS

Rainbow over Ladysmith Harbour
  brief break from several days of intense rain.

ORIGINAL SONG: "Black Velvet Band" traditional Irish pub song, as arranged by the Irish Rovers 1967. Of note, the Irish Rovers' 50th and putatively final tour took place 2 years ago, ending with St. Patrick's Day concerts in Vancouver and Nanaimo BC. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January, 2018. 
SONGLINK: On our song-blog you can find the lyrics and chord-charts for Giorgio's parody of the original song. While there, you might also want to check out an earlier posting entitled "Singable Limerick-Medley#3: A Visit to Chemainus, B.C."

The IRISH ROVERS ended their 50th world
ANNIVERSARY TOUR with a concert in Nanaimo B.C.

 PARODY SONG-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "" by Oscar Brand, 1963. You can listen to the well-known version by The Travellers on YouTube by clicking here.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, April 2018, in preparation for upcoming Canada Day 2018.

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VANCOUVER'S ISLE

(to the tune of "Black Velvet Band")

From that oversized town called Toronto

Retirees take pains to be gone;

What with prices as lush as the co-ondos,

And in May, frozen slush on the ground.

I booked tickets by air to Vancouver,  

To the West Coast I thought we might move;

You can fly A.C.*, Westjet (not Porter)

Your relations are bound to approve. 

I'd go straight on to Vancouver Island,

And there I'd explore for a while.

I'd spend time with my bro in Nanaimo

August weather's sublime - that's my style.

But bad misfortune overcame me, 

Paid a penalty, rebooked my flight.

I did land in October, and so did a sober-

ing storm on the very same night.

It can rain on the plains and the prairies.

And in Banff, it can rain there a while.

There's no rain that's a pain, it's not hard to explain,

Like the rain out on Vancouver's Isle.

Spent ten days hunkered down in Nanaimo,

Tried to drive around, poured every mile,

Had to run from the car to the tavern door --

That's a sport out on Vancouver's Isle.

In a bar not too far from Chemainus

A guitar-man sang out this refrain,

"Frequent downpours and drizzle abolish life's sizzle.

Cherish sunny climes? Get on a plane."

"When you fly here with Westjet (not Porter),

Can't extinguish the anguish most vile.

There's no rain that's a pain, it's not hard to explain,

Like the rain here on Vancouver's Isle."

I've retired now to South Carolina --

Coastal mornings are mostly quite fine.

Folks complain should it rain; it's so flat - doesn't drain;

They've got nothing about which to whine.

It can rain on the plains and the prairies;

Banff and Jasper - it rains there in style.

There's no rain that's a pain, it's not hard to explain,

Like the rain out on Vancouver's Isle.

*  A.C. = Air Canada. Westjet is a competitor on flights across the country. Porter provides more local service from Toronto Island Airport to destinations in Eastern Canada and the East Coast of the U.S. 

Chemainus: shuh-MAY-nuhs

Nanaimo: nuh-NIE-moh

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POETS' CORNER #1

Authors' Note: The mental disorder in which sufferers (including the author) feel endlessly compelled to write limericks might be dubbed limerrhea, hyperlimerosis, or more simply, limerick addiction. 

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Authors' Note:    In the above limerick verse,   neologisms include dehiscitude (reminiscent of 'dehiscence'), remissitude (reminiscent of being 'remiss' in the sense of 'culpable'). 

Wound dehiscence, or 'failure of primary (wound) closure', is a feared surgical complication, found mostly in the province of abdominal surgeons and trauma surgeons; it seldom affects the professional practice of psychiatrists or limericists.

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American Satire: A TERM OF ENDIREMENT #4

This post provides a follow-up to 

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #1"

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #2"

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #3"

Authors' Note:  The fiefdoms of major American political parties are frequently identified on political posters and maps by color coding, Republicans being depicted as red, and Democrats as blue. The relatively conservative southern state of Georgia had traditionally voted Republican in federal presidential elections for several decades until, in November 2020, Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by a relatively small increment of twelve thousand votes statewide, a difference of less than 1%.

  After the 2020 election, the transcript of a phone call between the President and his lawyers and Georgia's Secretary of State (the state official in charge of elections) was obtained by the media. In the phone call, the federal parties derided the state's procedures, suggesting that a significant number of Democrat votes had been cast by dead persons. They asked that this unfair situation be redressed by "finding" just enough previously unrecorded Red votes to alter the outcome.

Authors' Note: The above verse reflects the workings of democracy as perceived by a vocal minority, sometimes labeled 'conspiracy theorists', following the 2020 US presidential election. See also grift.

Authors' Note: U.S. Senator J. Hawley of Missouri played a major role in the constitutional events at the Washington Capitol on January 6, 2021, the day of the insurection directed at the accession of joe Biden to the presidency. 

Authors' Note:  In the United States, the Inauguration, a ceremony to mark the commencement of the four-year term of a new president takes place on the January 20th following the November election.

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