Limerick-Uke-Saga: "AEGEAN CAT", a fixture of Greek travel

UKE-SONG, derived from limerick lyrics.

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS:

A limerick: a verse that is singable

(If the diction's not flagrantly flingable);

Brings a humorous note

To a view you'd promote -- 

And it rings, like a bell ding-alingable.

Giorgio Coniglio. 

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, following a trip to Greece in Nobember 2017. After undergoing their rigorous collaborative editing process, these have been published as a "brief saga", a poetic entity of three or more stanzas, on the poetry website OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form); they have then been displayed as poetry lyrics on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE to review Giorgio's blogged poem.

SETTING WORDS TO MUSIC: Readers might be interested to know that of more than 1000 short poems that we have published, only 50 or so would qualify as "brief sagas". Although almost any limerick verse (e.g. the "Nantucket limericks") can be set to music, we were particularly interested in exploring this transitiioning for these multiverse poems that warrant the time to pick up your ukulele.

The tunes we have exploited in this effort include, not surprisingly "The Limerick Song". On certain occasions we have also used "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime", "Santa Lucia" and Shania Twain's "Up" (minor modifications to scansion are required for some of these). 

SONG-LINKS: If interested, you could check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with travels in Greece, most of which involve the conversion of limerick-based poems to singable format. These include "Acropolis", "Aegean Breezes", "Dodecanese Islands", and "Singable Limericks: Using Greek Words". (There are also many shorter illustrated verses, remaining under the poetry rubric that can be found on "Daily Edifying Nonsense", although these, too, are singable. 

THE DELIGHTS OF ANGLO-LATIN 

(to the tune of "The Limerick Song") .  

SONG-LINKS: Check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with the use of Anglo-Latin and other classic language remnants, including "Latin Cat's Strut", "No Elements", "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", and "Singable Limericks: Using Greek Words".

THE DELIGHTS OF ANGLO-LATIN 

(to the tune of "The Limerick Song")