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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A Rollicking Irish Ballad About the Key Role of South Carolina: "ELECTION-RACE ANAGRAMS"

POST #122

CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHY and PARODY LYRICS
WORDPLAY LINK: Creative cartography derived from anagrams is highlighted and explained on our companion blog, "Edifying Nonsense". See Wordplay post #16 for an explanation of the derivation of the anagrams, and the development of the "anagram sister-city initiative".

ORIGINAL SONG: "Black Velvet Band" traditional Irish song, as arranged by the Irish Rovers 1967. Of note, the Irish Rovers' 50th and putatively final tour has just ended with St Patrick's Day concerts in Vancouver and Nanaimo BC. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2016.

KEYWORDS: wordplay, cartography, goldenoldy

Logo for
Irish Rovers'
50th Anniversary Tour 

ELECTION-RACE ANAGRAMS

(to the tune of "Black Velvet Band") 

In that neat southern town they call CHARLESTON
(Which unscrambles to Northlea SC)
A WAR ravages South Caroli-ina - 
It's that raw anagram rivalry.

With just eight electoral ballots
She's hardly the queen of the land
But what makes a great STATE (try teats, testa- )
Is a taste for some great anagrams. 

Her 'I's help polish REPUBLICANS
While DEMOCRATS host 'O' and 'T';
What distinguishes South Caroli-ina - 
All the partisans have 'S' and 'C'.

If electoral maps you do ponder
'Cause November is not very far
The battle's 3 critical RA-(A)CES
Are CA and SC and AR.

Well, the Blues have locked up the Seaboard
From MainE's Sodcart to Coaster MD
Very few Republican voters
Until Usable Rip in NC.

The Central view is quite different - 
There Democrats won't do too well.
Reds carry the day in Bunslicer PA,
Puce's Barn and Spun Brace in IL.

Out West, Democrats are sure winners
(A fact that's astounding to know)
With Arse Doc in MT and Catmore SD
And Rest Dam and St Madre CO.

The South presents a mixed picture - 
Blues unrivaled in Redcoat MS 
While in LA and AL-aba-ama
Reds are victors -  there's no need to guess.

The swing states include CAlifornia
Whose anagrams tilt to'ard the Red 
So in Burplines and Burnspiel there's Nil Superb 
What was once a Close rAce is now dead.

That leaves us with South Carolina
The queen of both sides' anagrams.
There's Tea Dorm, Art Mode and Red A-atom  
 Mod'rate, Teardom, Meat Rod and Tore Dam.

Her 'I's help polish REPUBLICANS
While DEMOCRATS toast 'O' and 'T';
What distinguishes South Caroli-ina ? 
All partisans have 'S' and 'C'.

Now come all ye Palinrube voters
Take Bluer Pain warning by me
Whenever you're out at the Lineup Bar
Look for Alpine Rub in SC.
There's Unripe Lab, Urban Pile, Prunebail
And Burial Pen - can't you see
With each Nubile Rap, ev'ry Alien Burp
There are great anagrams in SC. 

 Her 'I's help polish REPUBLICANS
While DEMOCRATS host 'O' and 'T';
What distinguishes South Caroli-ina - 
All partisans boast 'S' and 'C'.




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INCONTINENT WORDPLAY (part A2): MORE U.S. ANAGRAMS

Post #121
PARODY-LYRICS: Continuation of post #119

INCONTINENT WORDPLAY: 
U.S. ANAGRAMS (part #2)

 (to the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")



Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Jane
Fish off ONSLIDE RAMP, Jane
With INSOLER DAMP, Jane 
Seek out SINDALE ROMP, Jane 
Towns like SMOLDERPAIN, Jane 
In the PRIMSOD LANE! 

And then there's:
Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", guy
There's also:
And then there's: 
Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Dear
To wrap up:
Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Jane
Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Ron

Dimperson, Sermon Dip, Misponder LA;
Drole Snip, Plod Rinse and Noël's Drip MA;
Slim Drone, Mole Risn'd, Resinmold PA
(Nearpolis MD isn't very far away);
MS has Pole Drain, Alien Prod, Drop-A-Line,    
Oprieland, Linearpod, Alpine Rod and Old Rapine.

You'll get SPINDLE ROAM,  guy
Also NIL-RAP DOMES, guy
Along with IN-LARD POEMS, guy
Dig the RED-SPIN LOAM, guy? 
Shake up PALINDROMES.

Slander-Op, Darn Slope, Pas-le-Nord MI
And Sled Apron, Penal Rods, Lord Aspen grows so high;
Spendrail, Linerpads, Spiral End - MO won't fail
Dire Plans, Lardspine, Pals' Diner, Nerdpails;
Mares' Pond, Demonrasp, Modern Spa IL
Spend Amor, and Dampnoser; that's a lot - Hell's bells!  

Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", man
You'll get MEDAL PRISON
Even a PLAID SERMON
By a SPIRAL DEMON 
Dress in POLAR DENIMS
Near ALPENSOD RIM.

Melonsdip, Simple Nod, Lisp Monde AR;
Damn Spiel, Medal Pins and Mind's Leap- very far;
And Damsel Nip, Midpanels, Dinsample OR;
San-del-Mio, De-Molinas, Limón-ades  PR
Isla-de-Mon(o), Sandimole, Snail Dome
Dismal One, Mineloads, Manse Lido, almost home!  

Fish off ALMONDS' PIER,  Dear
With a LIMP SON DEAR, here
ND's Lipo Smear, here
MD's Lionspear, here
Shake up PALINDROMES.

Polarside, Pas-de-Loir, Silo Drape, Plier Soda
Oilspread, Diapersol MN - that's Minnesota
Idler Soap, Roadpiles and Polarised - names might seem fake;
NM convinces - with Operalids, Parodies L(ake).
Olé Rapids, Rio d'Alpes, Las' Period, El Pisador
Dali's Rope, Old Praise, Soil Padre,  many more!    

You'll get ONSLIDE RAMP, Jane
And INSOLER DAMP, Jane
Seek out SINDALE ROMP, Jane
Towns like SMOLDERPAIN, Jane
In the PRIMSOD LANE.

You'll get PALSIED NORM, Ron
View the PINE-ROD ALMS, Ron
Sleep in ALPINE DORMS, Ron
Check out SIMPLE RADON
Click on MAIL RESPOND.
Shake up PALINDROMES.
Shake up P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S !
Shake up "P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S", Jane

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