Limerick-Uke-Saga: "HERBICIDES", creative anachronism"

UKE-SONG, derived from lyrics of a multi-verse limerick.


MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: For this post, we will use the melody for the iconic song "Summertime" from the hit Gershwin musical "Porgy and Bess". 

 

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS: Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, October 2023. 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 (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 transitioning 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". But on occasion we have also used (minor modifications may be required) "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime" (as here) and a few others.

first stanza:/ Crew-boss Adam, chief gardener was heedin’/ The rules in the Garden of Eden./ But, with herbicides banned,/ He had secretly planned/ To try chemical weedin’ and feedin’.

second stanza:/ Weedy fairways and greens crew were tendin’;/ Off their tractors, their backs they were bendin’./ Satan gave him a call,/ Tempted, “After the Fall/ This organic phase, Adam, is endin’.”

third stanza:/ Adam feared for his soul, yet did grapple/ To import the new app on his Apple;/ Now serenely extolling/ “The Serpent”, controlling/ The spraying? A single good tap’ll.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
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