POST #140
Singable Limericks
Singable Limericks
ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube here.
LIMERICK VERSE: Original lyrics composed and set to music by Giorgio Coniglio, November 2016.
EXPLANATORY NOTES: Many of these verses have also been published at the online humor dictionary OEDILF , as noted. In some cases, the title of the verse shown below has been modified from the "defined word" listed at OEDILF.com.
WORDPLAY LINK: You might enjoy some postings on our wordplay blog "EDIFYING NONSENSE". In particular with respect to the great outdoors, you might enjoy a collection entitled "Reverse Strokes: Limericks about Canoeing".
CONTENTS:
1. Stinkhorn Fungus (Red Basket Fungus)
EXPLANATORY NOTES: Many of these verses have also been published at the online humor dictionary OEDILF , as noted. In some cases, the title of the verse shown below has been modified from the "defined word" listed at OEDILF.com.
WORDPLAY LINK: You might enjoy some postings on our wordplay blog "EDIFYING NONSENSE". In particular with respect to the great outdoors, you might enjoy a collection entitled "Reverse Strokes: Limericks about Canoeing".
CONTENTS:
1. Stinkhorn Fungus (Red Basket Fungus)
2. Bee Stings
3. Caterpillars
4. Geysers
5. Muskoka (Summer Breaks)
6. Urban Green Spaces
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
3. Caterpillars
4. Geysers
5. Muskoka (Summer Breaks)
6. Urban Green Spaces
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
(To the tune of "The Limerick Song". Display of the lyrics has been condensed to 4 lines for each verse, with internal rhyming in line 3, rather than the more customary 5-line limerick format.)
1. Is it plausible aliens brung us
That bizarre life-form, red basket fungus?
2. For most 'bee stings' the bees take the fall,
That bizarre life-form, red basket fungus?
How I wish we could ban it,
send it back to its planet,
But alas, it has settled among us.
Nature’s nerf-ball, it’s named for its stench --
Your eyes water and teeth want to clench.
Your eyes water and teeth want to clench.
It's designed, no surprise, to attract swarms of flies
To its home near your new garden bench.
… which could put off a swain or a wench.
Though it isn't the bees' fault at all;
Vespine pests, yellow jackets undertake an attack; it's
3. We'd converse there on any old matter-fillers.
"Aren't you glad they don't have they don't have rowdy caterpillars.
Chew the fat, shady yard, though of hearing we're hard,
Unperturbed by loud vermiform patter-killers."
4. An old Yellowstone Park tour-adviser
Could predict like a geezer much wiser:
It's magma's heat driving that geyser."
5. So, Muskoka has rock-rimmed blue lakes,
Worth the effort that getting there takes.
6. You would fret about where canines pee
And go poop if, like me, you're a tree.
Vespine pests, yellow jackets undertake an attack; it's
A typical day's ER call.
3. We'd converse there on any old matter-fillers.
"Aren't you glad they don't have they don't have rowdy caterpillars.
Chew the fat, shady yard, though of hearing we're hard,
Unperturbed by loud vermiform patter-killers."
4. An old Yellowstone Park tour-adviser
Could predict like a geezer much wiser:
"Pressure rises in chasms; vapour gushes in spasms —
5. So, Muskoka has rock-rimmed blue lakes,
Worth the effort that getting there takes.
Leave the grimy hot city — Woods and wetlands so pretty,
For our otter-loon-perch summer breaks.
And go poop if, like me, you're a tree.
Our curbside green zone, pesty pets, leave alone!
"Owners, help keep our walks urine-
free!"
UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT
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