Limerick-Uke-Saga: "The ATHENS ACROPOLIS"

 

UKE-SONG, derived from limerick lyrics.

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: This poetic piece, with 3 stanzas and 15 lines, can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, following a trip to Greece in November 2017. After undergoing their rigorous collaborative editing process, the work has 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", based on lenghand format. Although almost any limerick verse (e.g. the "Nantucket limericks") can be set to music, we were particularly interested in exploring this reformatting 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 "Aegean Cat", "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. 

Authors' Note: 

* properly, the Panathenaic Way.

The worst blow to the monument was in 1687 when Venetians attacked the Turkish-held site, and gunpowder stores caused an explosion that damaged all the buildings. The greatest part of the existing frieze marbles from the Parthenon, taken by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, are currently found in the British museum. The Beulé Gate near the Propylaia at the entrance was discovered by a French archeologist in 1852.

Other verses discussing our appreciation of Greece and things Greek can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE.