Soulfege: an Irregular Reggae...Plus Additional Eggcentricity

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DO..., singin'
DO-RE..., singin'
DO-RE-MI...
SI-MI-DO-DO what sing
DO-RE-MI...?

Queen LA-TI-FA singin' MI-FA
love MI-DO-DO what sing
DO-RE-MI...
Franklin's FA-LA: he sing LA-LA...
he de LA-FA smoke de RE-FA...
eat FA-LA-FA wid MI-DO-DO what sing
DO-RE-MI.

SI-SI-LA-TI singin' FA-TI,
DO-SI-DOin' on de SO'-FA,
read Fo' DO-LA to MI-DO-DO what sing
DO-RE-MI...
SI G. SOL-TI, singin' DO-TI...?
Play de LA-DO wid Ms SI-LA,
eat RE-SO'-DO wid MI-DO-RE
an' LA-RE-DO...? He SO'-SO'-RE
tellin' all de lad an' LA-SI
'bou' MI-DO-DO what sing DO-RE...
'bou' MI-DO-DO what sing
DO-RE-MI.

DO-SOL-DO-SI sing SOL-SOL-SI
feel SOL-SOL SOL singin' FA-DO
DO-RE-LA-DO-DO-RE-LA-DO...
Auxerre's RE-MI sing DO-TI-MI
go fo' SOL-LA out in SI-MI
TI-LA-TI-MI-LA-SI-MI-MI...
Boheme's MI-MI singin' SI-MI
bus' de SI-SOL she SOl-MI-TI
SOL-FA-SI-TI-FA-SOL-TI-TI...
Roscoe FA-TI sing FA-LA-TI
eat de SI-TI swat de TI-TI
SI-LA-SOL-FA-MI-RE-DO

SI Juan TI-SOL he no DO-MI
TV FA-SI hug his LA-MI
G DO-RE who etch a pitcha
fo' de Uris novel MI-LA
Marshal TI-DO jus' say SI-SI
who say RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA
Even LA-SI singin' FA-SI
wid fren' TI-MI singin' SI-MI
fresh from skiin' on Lake TI-TI
twirl de LA-SO -- very RE-SI
everybody love MI-DO-DO wha' sing
DO wha' sing DO-RE
everybody love MI-DO-DO wha' sing
DO-RE-MI!

For the linguistically challenged, 
a rough transliteration:

"Do...," singing
"do-re...," singing
"do-re-mi":
see my dodo who sings,
"do-re-mi..."?                                            (5)

Queen Latifah, singing "Mi-fa...,"
loves my dodo who sings,
"Do-re-mi..."
Franklin's Fala, singin,' "La-la..." --
(he's the laugher smoking reefer), --           (10)
eats falafal with my dodo who sings,
"Do-re-mi..."

See C. Lahti, singing, "Fa-ti,"
"do-si-do"ing on the sofa?
Reads "Fo' Dollah" to my dodo who sings,    (15)
"Do-re-mi."
See George Solti singing, "Do-ti"?
Plays the Lotto with Ms Sela,
eats risotto with Midori
and Laredo (he's so sorry!),                       (20)
telling all the lads and lassies
'bout my dodo who sings,
"Do-re..." -- 'bout my dodo who sings,
"Do-re-mi."

Dosso Dossi sings, "Sol-sol..." He               (25)
feels "so-so," so's singing fado:
"Do-re-la-do, do-re-la-do!"
Auxerre's Remi sings, "Do-ti-mi..."
Goes for solar out in Simi:
"Ti-la-ti-mi, la-si-mi-mi!"                           (30)
"Boheme"'s Mimi, singing, "Si-mi...",
busts the see-saw (she's so meaty!):
"Sol-fa-si-ti, fa-sol-ti-ti!"
Roscoe (Fatty), sings, "Fa-la-ti...",
eats the ziti, swats the tse-tse:                   (35)
"Si-la-sol-fa-mi-re-do!"

See Juan Tizol? (he's no dummy)?
TV's Fozzi hugging Lamby?
G. Dore, who etched the picture
for the Uris novel "Mila..."?                         (40)
Marshall Tito (just say "Si, si...")
who says "Re-mi-fa-sol, la-si!"?
Even Lassie (singing, "Fa-si...")
with friend Timmy (singing, "Si-mi..."),
fresh from skiing on Lake Titi...,                  (45)
twirl their lassoes (ver-r-r-r-ry racy!):
Everybody loves my dodo who sings,
"Do...", who sings, "Do-re..." --
everybody loves my dodo who sings,
"Do-re-mi!"                                               (50)


Notes (literary, not musical)

3 The first three solfege syllables
4 A bird -- extinct elsewhere -- who lives with 
me
6 A former rapper
9 FDR's terrier
10a One who laughs -- i.e., any family pet who 
giggles while smoking dope.
10b Reefer -- i.e., marijuana in cigarette form
11 A kind of mideastern sandwich
13 The film actress Christine
14 Do-si-do, a square-dance step
15 "Fo' Dollah," a Michener story and source 
for Broadway's "South Pacific."
17 The Hungarian-British opera conductor
18a A regional lottery game played with 
scratch-off tickets
18b The actress Sela Ward
19a Risotto, a tasty rice dish
19b The famous violinist
20 The pianist Jaime Laredo
25 The Renaissance painter Giovanni de Luteri's 
professional name
25 The mournful Portuguese music genre
28 The Carolingian music theorist
29a An alternative energy source -- i.e., solar, 
wind, etc.
29b The southern California bedroom community
31 The principal soprano role in a famous Puccini 
opera
32 A playground device
34 The silent movie star Roscoe Arbuckle, known 
as "Fatty"
35a A variety of pasta
35b The tse-tse fly, a disease-carrying insect pest
37 The famous Duke Ellington trombonist
38a The jokester Muppet bear
38b A child's plush toy
39 The illustrator Gustave Dore
40 Leon Uris's novel Mila 18
41 The Yugoslav revolutionary
43 A (TV) dog and...
44 ...his (TV) boy
45 Lake Titicaca borders Bolivia and Peru
46 A lariat
50 And again, as in the beginning, the first three 
solfege syllables 

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