Aura Lee Easy Ukulele Song- 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way

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"Aura Lee" (aka "Aura Lea") is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (words) and George R. Poulton (music).  The Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender" (lyric by Ken Darby) is a derivative adaptation of this song. A later Presley recording for the film The Trouble with Girls entitled "Violet (Flower of N.Y.U.)" also used the melody of "Aura Lee"



The television western The Young Riders used the song in its series finale, which took place in 1861 and showed how the American Civil War was affecting its characters' lives.



There is also a version of "Aura Lea" called "Army Blue" associated with the U.S. Military Academy. In "Army Blue," lyrics specific to the academy, written by George T. Olmstead, an 1865 graduate of the academy, are sung to the original melody. It is the running theme music in the background of the 1954 John Ford film The Long Gray Line.



The 1983 film Trading Places includes Ivy League stockbrokers at their racquet club singing a sexualized parody of this song about their college days and their fraternity's conquest of various women on locations at campus, with the refrain changed to "Constance Frye."



The television show How I Met Your Mother 2009 episode (season 5 episode 22) "Robots Versus Wrestlers", features Ted Mosby at an upper-class party singing the Trading Places "Constance Fry" version along with film director Peter Bogdanovich and New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz.



In Revenge of the Nerds, Betty Childs and the other girls from her sorority sing a parody (though not the exact tune) to the Tri-Lambs.









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