Musical Limericks [3]

Subject: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 11:56 AM

There was a young man named McNameter
Whose mistress kept calling him amateur.
Says she Your technique
Is too rough and antique
And your rhythm's iambic pentameter!

They don't have to be dirty or clean, just peripherally about music. I got into a singing thing about limericks at a party recently and could only come up with a very few that were at all musical. There must be more! And no nitpicking on whether rhythm is music or poetry...

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: MMario
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:27 PM

One of my favorite ren-faire groups (Wench Works) has done "The limerick Song" for years....basically just about any limerick, strung together with:

"That was a very nice verse
Sing me another one
Just like the other one
Boom pecker, pecker
Boom pecker, pecker

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:28 PM

from a search:

Musical limericks

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:35 PM

Wolfgang, not bad, but very few... come on catters, there must be more! And MMario, we string ours together with the old Oscar Brand Ayayayay, in china they do it for chili, so here comes another verse that's worse than the other verse, so waltz me around again, Willie!

Reminds me of the connection between the identical verses of the old Henry the Eighth song about the "wider next door (she's been married 7 times before, and every one was a Henry...): Second (or Third, or whatever) verse, same as the first! A little bit louder and a little bit worse!

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: Mbo
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:41 PM

Hey! Hermit's Hermits! I love those guys!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST,Mrr-with-one-eyebrow-raised
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:45 PM

Mbo? Context? And a limerick, please?

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: Mbo
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:51 PM

Geez, Mrrz! You know, Herman's Hermits, '60's British Invasion group, sang "I'm Henry The Eighth, I Am," "There's A Kind of Hush," "Into Something Good," "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat?" "Mrs.Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter"...ah...HH rulz! Sorry, no limericks from me...except the tune, la la la!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 12:56 PM

Ah, bon. I knew that song because my sisters sang it to me, I had no idea who'd actually done it! There's a kind of hush - isn't that by the same people who did Winchester Cathedral? All sounds very 50's to me, before my time... but surely you can come up with a limerick or two, it doesn't have to have been PUBLISHED -

There once was a trekkie named Mbo
Whose musical talent was so
Amazingly grand
It would span the whole land
If he'd only get out there and GO!

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: pastorpest
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 01:20 PM

An angel with gossamer wings/ Said, "I've done a few terible things."/ But I don't think they will carp/ 'Cause I am good on the harp/ Abd I got here by pulling some strings.

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 02:20 PM

Once at a musical bash
An old crone made up songs in a flash
But whenever she sang,
Her one central fang
Slashed her lip in a terrible gash

(You didn't say they had to make sense)

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: Bert
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 03:26 PM

Here's more

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 03:38 PM

Didn't anybody like the one I made up about Mbo? (sorrowfully kidding)...

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: Lanfranc
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 06:28 PM

OK, Mrr, it's a bit sycophantic, but a comradely sentiment for all that.

I can only think of one folk song that's in limerick metre, and that is "Poverty Knock" - can anyone add any others?

When the luthier Christian F Martin From his mentor, Herr Staufer was partin' He said "I'm away to the U S of A Where in Nazareth an new shop I'm startin'"

Subject: RE: BS: Musical Limericks
From: GUEST,Paddy(1)
Date: 12 Jul 00 - 09:04 PM

An original

A piper from far Inverness Played instrumentals while wearing a dress, For three-four he looked great, But while piping six-eight Both chanter and shift looked a mess.

Goodnight

Paddy(1)