Parody, thanks to Peter T.

Subject: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 12:19 PM

Since there are threads on sex songs (sort of) and parodies, it seems like a good time to take up Peter's suggestion.

Son of Broken Token
(Tune: John Riley, etc.)

As I roved out one fine May morning,
A lark did sing--I thought it wept--
And there I met a fair pretty maiden.
She looked as though she hadn't slept.

I'm always ready in the morning,
I've been that way most of my life.
She drove me wild, and what I told her
I now forget, but it ends with "wife".

She said, "Oh no, I loved a sailor
Who I met last night, but he fled arrest.
He took my ring, made a broken token."
She drew it out from between her vests.

I felt around within my pocket,
Found the half a ring I keep in it.
We matched them up--it was not perfect.
Said I, "So what? We'll make them fit."

That morn I proved my honour long, boys.
We worked with main, we worked with might,
With elbow grease and lots of patience.
Within an hour it fit just right.

Come all fair maids, heed well my warning:
When the token fits, take action soon.
Love that feels strong on a sunny morning,
It may turn weak ere the clock strikes noon.

Copyright 1998 by Jerry Friedman. I hereby place these lyrics in the public domain. If anyone is so tasteless as to sing them, I'd appreciate credit.

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 12:41 PM

Jerry, Fine work (in all senses). It isn't often we have three new songs of such peerless quality coming from one thread. I noticed you avoided amulets. I have been thinking about this (instead of working). I suppose one of the problems with amulets is that nothing rhymes with amulet - omelette? Also, of course the problem with having the other half of the same ring is that you are likely to be brother and sister! So maybe it is best to go for someone with half of a different ring/amulet. Cuts down on the odds of your child ending up as a banker.

I remember Woody Allen once wrote an update of mythical animals, and the best was a creature whose top half was a lion, and whose bottom half was a lion -- but a different lion!! Makes you think.

Do you have a tune?

Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 12:43 PM

Whoops, sorry, missed the John Riley note.

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Mo
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 02:34 PM

Amulet might almost work better as it would remind you of the girl/boy "you met" (Dodgy Rhymes Inc.)! It's a beggar to scan though... Mo (damn, I now seem locked into doggerel!).

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 23 Oct 98 - 01:41 PM

Thanks, Peter! For the rhyme, try "Capulet".

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: BSeed
Date: 23 Oct 98 - 01:57 PM

How about parapet? --seed

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Oct 98 - 02:54 PM

Gee, thanks, I only got "rivulet"! Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Barry Finn
Date: 23 Oct 98 - 10:45 PM

This thread has gone to the toilet. Barry

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Mo
Date: 24 Oct 98 - 06:47 AM

Well, if it has, I wouldn't fret....

Mo

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Animaterra
Date: 24 Oct 98 - 08:02 AM

....Peter T's right. There really *isn't* a rhyme for amulet!

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Dan Calder
Date: 24 Oct 98 - 08:27 AM

So maybe you should just forget... You could think of something else, I bet. Perhaps your hero's name was Rhett, Or maybe we are just all wet.

Dan

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Barbara
Date: 24 Oct 98 - 09:15 AM

No rhymes to amulet?
"...damn, you let
me down again, 'Cats..."

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Mo
Date: 24 Oct 98 - 07:00 PM

Barbara, dear heart,don't get in a sweat If it don't perform send the 'Cat to the Vet!

Mo - next?!

Subject: RE: Parody, thanks to Peter T.
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Oct 98 - 11:44 AM

Though they never fitted together seal or token
Or matched up each other’s amulet,
Was their love not true, and just as truly unbroken? --
Romeo Montagu, and Juliet Capulet.

Just thought I'd give it a whirl -- boy, dactyls sure don't work too well in English.

Yours, Peter T.