Rapaire, thanks for your two attempts.

You helped inspire my own creation which I hereby name
"Hey Diddle Diddle-o" [the "o" is to distinquish this composition from that other "Hey Diddle Diddle" masterpiece. **BG**]:

Azizi is my name.
It is my claim to fame.
Singin "Hey Diddle diddle.
I ain't got no fiddle.
Singin Hey diddle diddle-o".

[For those who care about proper English-the 4th line can be changed to "I haven't any fiddle"-but IMO in doing so you'll wreck the rhyme's flow. Not that it really matters, but I'm just sayin...

Of course, many folks songs are open-ended. Subsequent verses of this song follow the same pattern and immediately flow from the preceding one.

So..in recognition of the theme of this thread and mindful of Mark Cohen's hyper-sensitivities on this subject, I will add this verse:

Blynken is his name.
It is his claim to fame.
Singin "Hey Diddle diddle.
He ain't got no fiddle.
Singin Hey diddle diddle-o."

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and PS. to Rapaire:
It's Pittsburgh and not Philly..but I'll give you some props for composing rhymes using my name and some more props for remembering that I live in Pennsylvania and I try to make my living as a storyteller.

And then I step off into the sunset singin:

Rapaire is his name.
It is his claim to fame.
Singin "Hey Diddle diddle.
He ain't got no fiddle.
Singin Hey diddle diddle-o".


And since this is a music forum- my apologies, Rapaire if you actually do have a fiddle.

LOL!


Azizi Powell