Singable Limerick-Medley: SONG FOR THE MORNING AFTER (the U.S. Presidential Election)

Leaders Unified for the Transition

POST #137 

SINGABLE LIMERICKS

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses were originally conceived to be sung to  "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube here.

LIMERICK VERSE:  Original poetry was composed by Giorgio Coniglio, and compiled in November 2017. Many of the poems have been published at the OEDILF website (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form) by Giorgio Coniglio, 2016-2017. The OEDILF identifying number (#) and the Author's Note accompanying each poem, where relevant, are shown following the first verse. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2016.

CONTENTS: 
1. Anagrams (D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P)
2. Cleveland, 2016
3. Taking Liberties
4. Democracy

SONG FOR THE MORNING AFTER


(to the tune of "The Limerick Song")

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Singable Limerick-Medley: DELIGHTS OF THE GARDEN

laneway scene
beyond a Charleston garden

POST #135        
SINGABLE LIMERICKS ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to  "The Limerick Song", as in "The Flea and the Fly". See sactoGranny's recording on YouTube here.

ORIGINAL LIMERICK VERSES: Many of the verses have been published at the OEDILF website (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form) by Giorgio Coniglio, 2016-2017. The OEDILF identifying number (#), the "defined word", and the Author's Note accompanying the poem, where relevant, are shown beneath the chord-chart slide.

WORDPLAY LINK: Green-thumbed readers as well as wannabees can now

CONTENTS
1. The Charleston Garden (Loutrel Briggs)

2. Creeping Fig

3. Tractor-Seat Plant 

4. Japanese Yew

5. Gazebos

6. Indica Azaleas 

Hotlink to Wikipedia: "Azaleas"

Hotlink to Wikipedia: "Vidalia onions"

Singable Limerick-Medley: THE SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE

sactoGranny, singing
 clean limericks

Post #134
PARODY-SONG with GUEST ARTISTS  (various authors contributing limerick verses)

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to  "The Limerick Song" as in "The Flea and the Fly". See sactoGranny's recording on YouTube here.
PARODY COMPOSED: Edited by Giorgio Coniglio, June 2016.KEYWORDS: wordplay, poetry, traditional.

MOTHER EMANUEL A.M.E. WorldView 
Folks visiting Charleston are weepful
Contemplating our roof and our steeple
Nine brave souls blown away.
But just trust NRA,

vigil, Charleston SC
 June 2105

Who claim, "Guns don't, but people kill people".

(This verse was written in honour of the victims of the massacre at Mother Emmanuel Church in June 2015, and in tribute to the response of the City of Charleston, S.C)

ORLANDO CAUSATION  Dr Giorgio Coniglio dec
The press thought it incredibly lame - 
The retracted 'fact' spewed by McCain
(Not to mention the Trump
Whose tweets honor a dump-
-ster): That Obama's 'directly' to blame.

REVERENT ASSASSINATION      Bunk'n
A church-going hitman named Pluggitt
Taught young thugs this key Sten-gun nugget,
"After gun-swept pew: snug!
Wrap the corpse in a rug,
And be sure to pray after you've dug it."

TRUNCATED  Schort Schrift
A world where each person is armed
Is a world where no good guy is harmed
(Sounds of automatic gun-fire) ...........
...
...

SIBLING RIBALDRY  Soupbone
A duck-hunting dad from Nantucket
Stashed his ammo in daughter Nan's bucket,
'Til bad-apple son Frank

American made - AR15.

Robbed the Pawtucket bank
And as for Nan's bucket, Frank tucket.


ANGER'S BYSTANDERS  Giorgio Coniglio
A bee and bat trapped in a bore
Could foresee what sad fate lay in store.
Said the bat, "Let it be!"
Said the bee, "No doubt that
We'll get zapped if they trigger a war!"

FAILED LEGISLATION  Mrs. Konopka
The grand drama of Chris' filibuster
Brought Democrat pols to the muster
But on-stage, GOP
In their entirety*
Turned in a performance lackluster. 
* an alternate version using the word 'hypocrisy' is possible, but not  recommended.



EDITOR'S NOTE  Giorgio Coniglio
On limerick verse, here's my slant:
Not for mannerly banter or rant
Stanzas stand to your credit;
Just be terse, aim and edit. 
You can't fire off-the-mark, then recant.

(also appearing in OEDILF #95326) 

HEAVY HARRY's CARRY  Lime Rickey
When Harry went forth to meet Mimi
A gun filled his trousers' inseamy
But this concealed carry
Was so big for Harry
Said Mimi, "You're too glad to see me."

UNPREDICTABILITY (MONTREAL)   Mickey Anderson
Big guns are akin to pit bulls
But it's guns has the trigger you pulls.
Folks can state, "By and large,
Careful owners in charge"
But their victims might call those folks, "Fools."


OPEN AGENDA   Pil'
The chief of P.R. NRA,

the frontier of  belligerence

Called for openly arming all gays. 
As for bi's and transgenders,
The new weapons they'd tender
Were designed to discharge either way.

RETORT   Pooganagger
An old hunter and jester named "Rand"
Placed his shots with the best in the land,
Now he'll face this dillemer - 
He's developed a tremor
And his pacing has got out of hand.

 
CANADIAN VIEWPOINT  George O'Canuck
1). We Canucks await a yuuge migration,

From our trigger-loose neighboring nation.

When the Trump rules that land

(NRA in command)

They’ll head North for a gun-free salvation.

     ..................

2). GOP will create a new order;

Gun-control – they prefer to abort ‘er.

“Where’s Cape Breton?” “Up North”.

Yanks give thanks and go forth,

Weapons-stashes must stay at the border.

     ....................

3). “Make America Great Again” – stating

Mandates Second Amendment updating. 

Gun sales mount; must you choose

To shoot whatever moves?

It’s a habit we find rather grating.
     ..................

BUGS' EPITAPH    Trooper
Elmer Fudd, no dim-sighted fanatic,
Wasn't techno- or -logically static,
"I'll ewadicate wabbits
And their wascally habits
With my gun-show semI-automatic."

Singable Medley: Limericks for Halloween "MURDER AND MAYHEM"

POST #133             

SINGABLE LIMERICKS, inspired by a Hallowe'en ukejam theme-night with songs dedicated to "Murder and Mayhem"

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to  "The Limerick Song", as in "The Flea and the Fly". See sactoGranny's recording on YouTube here.
LIMERICK VERSES set to music:  Giorgio Coniglio, October 2016. 

CONTENTS: 

1. Firepower

2. Scary Upshot

3. Dispatch

4. Concealed Carry

5. Grisly/Grizzly

6. Cimetiere

7. Untimely Demise

8. By Halves

9. Cemetarians/Zombies

AUTHOR'S NOTE: In general, I am not into black humour. But it is Hallowe'en after all!

MURDER AND MAYHEM

(to the tune of 'The Limerick Song', uncannily transposed to a minor key. 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.)  

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Singable Limerick-Medley: "In the Shadow of THE SANKATY HEAD LIGHT"

POST #128
SINGABLE LIMERICKS inspired by the classic Nantucket limerick (see below)  

Sankaty Head Light
Nantucket, Massachusetts
photo: denimadept

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as in "The Flea and the Fly". See sactoGranny's recording on YouTube here.
ORIGINAL LIMERICK VERSE: The iconic first verse first appeared in the Princeton Tiger in 1902. Subsequently, further verses have appeared extending the story of the old man's bucket of cash.
PARODY COMPOSED: The limerick verses by Giorgio Coniglio have been web-published as indicated at the OEDILF website (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form).
Musical collage by Giorgio Coniglio, October 2016.
CONTENTS:
1. Classic Clean Nantucket Limerick
2. Cape Cod Codger
3. Dale, the Bay Stater
4. Old Flynn
5. Parent of Wild Child
6. Chuck, the Canuck
7. Poet from Nanaimo
8. Older Man from Nanking
9. The Moeurs of Nantucket

The Sankaty Head Light is a symbol of the island of Nantucket, MA. As the classic limerick verses provide inspiration to limericists, OEDILF uses the logo shown here. This major work-in-progress meticulously edits the original contributions of hundreds of authors, and now covers the alphabet from A to Ge, with over 96,000 limericks dedicated to word definition and entertainment. Completion of the dictionary is estimated to require at least 3 more decades. Learn more about this unusual limerick-dictionary at Wikipedia. 

KEYWORDS: wordplay, poetry, traditional

IN THE SHADOW OF THE SANKATY HEAD LIGHT

A LIMERICK MEDLEY

(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. There once was a man from Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

But his daughter, named Nan, /  ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nan-tucket.

2. An old codger who lived on Cape Cod

Tended assets in fashion quite odd.

He could spend as he'd wish / (often smelling of fish)

From his cache in his bucket of scrod.

3. Dale, a Bay Stater out by the water,

Hid his lottery-prize from his daughter.

Later cops spotted Gail / rowing off with his pail.

She's in jail with no bail, now they've caught'er.

4. Martha's Vineyard's home isle for Old Flynn,

Who felt guilt that he'd loaned out his PIN.

Card's account drained, wild Nell / at that Vegas hotel,

Used his cash for her dash into Sin. 

5. Asked an entrepreneur from 'the Sault',
"I've a wild child, so what can I do?"
He invented the 'Tucket, / an encrypted e-bucket.
Get online and he'll sell one to you.

6. Old Chuck was a feisty Canuck

Who treasured his mask, stick and puck,
Til his daughter's vile crime -- / stole Dad's team's on-ice time.
Lost in ruckus: Chuck's puck -- such bad luck.

7. When a poet grew pot quite sublime
For compassionate use in Nanaim-
-o, son Sasha, a nurse, / stole his cash stash and verse.
Note to self: Rhyme 'Nantucket' next time.

8. A rich older man from Nanking
Took  tender young thing on a fling.
He behaved rather nice / and proposed once or twice,
Then she dumped him, and hocked all his bling.

9. Your discourse on the moeurs of Nantucket
Yields tut-tuts and a curse; you can't buck it.
In the mind of a prude / most terse verses are crude --
So concluding, suggest that they chuck it.

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