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| Harlech castle, Wales |
PARODY-LYRICS
MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Men of Harlech", traditional Welsh hymn
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2013.
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| Charlotte Church, child diva sings "Men of Harlech" |
PEN of RABBITS
(to the traditional tune of "Men of Harlech")
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| Welch rare-bit / "rabbit?" |
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Singable Introduction:
[1] Charlotte Church aged 13, recorded the traditional ‘Men of Harlech’ 1998.
[2] Ogden Nash’s 2-line poem, ‘The Rabbits’
[3] Dr R. Brasch discusses the origins of ‘Welsh rabbit’ in ‘How Did It Begin’ , MJF Books, 2006.
[4] herbivorous mammals in a zoologic order which includes rabbits and hares.
[5] Best-known spoof - a Boy-Scout song based on the ancient British tradition of fighting naked in woad dye - by Eton housemaster W. Hope-Jones, ‘HoJo’, published 1921.
[6] Coniglio = rabbit (Italian)
Performing Notes
Enjoy chord-charts and lyrics at the Corktown Ukulele Jam songbook:
Corktunes: Pen of Rabbits
Cambria ’s national dish.
Some meat-shunners might eschew it
Sadly, elsewhere, butchered rabbit
Hard life in the burrows,
Performing Notes
Enjoy chord-charts and lyrics at the Corktown Ukulele Jam songbook:
Corktunes: Pen of Rabbits
PEN of RABBITS
(to the tune of "Men of Harlech")
Dominating YouTube searches -
Startling, stirring [1],
Steals your breath away.
Here’s a song about Welsh Rare-bit,
Squarely dealing with the hare-bits --
Seen on fare-bills quite a fair bit,
Patrons seem perplexed.
Rabbit Welsh –- offensive nomen-
-clature used by Saxon foemen ?
“No Welsh eats, but cheese and dough, man,
‘less they poach some game.” [2]
Meat-free choice? (Just ask your hostess.)
Beer-and-cheese-melt over toast; its
Celtic fans applaud and boast, it’s
Some meat-shunners might eschew it
Thinking it a hunter’s stew –- but
It lacks lagomorphs [3], that’s true –- Bugs
It lacks lagomorphs [3], that’s true –- Bugs
Outwits Elmer Fudd!
Rare-bit search is Brasch’s [2]
Hare terse-verse is Nash’s [4]
‘HoJo’ wrote the spoof ‘Woad Ode’ [5]
Coniglio [6] penned some flashes.
Hail a dish that harms no hopsters;
Hail a dish that harms no hopsters;
Not how Newberg hassles lobsters,
Fwycassees can fweak out sqwabsters --
Free the Cornish hen!
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| Easter rabbit hunt, New Zealand |
Satisfies game-lovers’ habits;
Easter special –- Braised Brunch-Basket:
Bunny-love abused.
Hard life in the burrows,
Where bereavement’s thorough.
Peters sad, their mom or dad
Got skewered for lunch ‘al burro’ [7].
Hail a world that harms no hopsters,
Fricassees make quail no squabsters,
Peace in field and warren !
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