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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: John MacKenzie Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:24 PM Your lips were like wine (if you'll pardon the simile), The music was lovely and quite Rudolf Friml'y*. Tom Lehrer The Weiner Schnitzel Waltz Giok |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: pdq Date: 15 Sep 06 - 01:10 PM ...more great Tom Lehrer rhymes: "Smut" Give me smut and nothing but A dirty novel I can't shut If it's uncut And unsubt- Tle I've never quibbled if it was ribald I would devour where others merely nibbled As the judge remarked the day that he Acquitted my Aunt Hortense "To be smut it must be ut- Terly without redeeming social importance" Especially dividing "ubsubtle" and "utterly". Amazing. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: rhyzla Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:41 PM Who put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp? Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong? Who put the bop in the bop sh-bop sh-bop? Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip? Who put the c*nt in Scunthorpe? Anyone else heard this - or just me? Sorry , it's got bugger all to do with rhyming! BTW, Lehrer is king!! |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Murray MacLeod Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:46 PM Most of these rhymes are quite brilliant. I would unhesitatingly cast yet another vote for Neil Diamond's crass, cringeworthy, vomit-inducing " songs she brang to me ". Nothing will ever come close to that for sheer ineptitude, imo. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 Sep 06 - 07:59 PM And the final lines of the "Puffin Song" - inspired by 2 pictures om my Gp's wall. "But if you leave it later on, Instead of seeing puffin, You'll find they've gone and flown the nest, And so you'll just see.............Nuffin" |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Sep 06 - 08:49 PM I think that Lorenz Hart had entirely too much fun with "Mountain Greenery" (1926): While you love your lover, let Blue skies be your coverlet
Ception in a beanery Bless our mountain greenery home!
S'matter boy? 'Atta boy! -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: DoctorJug Date: 16 Sep 06 - 02:51 AM Imagine: "You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one. Perhaps one day you'll join us And the world will live as one". Cunning, rhyming "one" with "one". The rest of the song sucks too. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,sailorboy Date: 16 Sep 06 - 04:45 AM Living in the countryside is very nice Looking in the hedgerow I see mice From the Noel Redding solo album. Sometime Jimmy Hendrix bass player. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: chazkratz Date: 16 Sep 06 - 09:41 AM A couple of Ogden Nash's finest: Little gamboling lamb Do you know where you am? In a patch of mint I'll give you a hint Scram, lamb. When called by a panther Don't anther But what bugs me is when people use the indicative pronoun "I" in the objective, for the sake of a rhyme: From "Aragon Mill," an otherwise fine song: I'm too old to change and I'm too young to die There's no place to go for my true love and I Particularly when there's a perfectly good option: We've no place to go, my true love and I Charles |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,thurg Date: 16 Sep 06 - 04:45 PM I would not assume 'the indicative pronoun "I" in the objective' is for the sake of rhyme; many if not most people do not know the correct use of "I" and "me", and furthermore, many if not most don't really care. And then there are certain dialects in which "I" is generally used rather than "me" in the objective (e.g., "Oh, never mind, I'll go and try,/Perhaps she might but fancy I"). I would think the bulk of traditional folk lyric would be painful for anyone who's disturbed by non-standard or just plain bad grammar. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 16 Sep 06 - 05:43 PM What Murray said. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 16 Sep 06 - 05:58 PM chazkratz, you just zeroed in on one of my pet peeves where rhymes are concerned: the resorting to bad grammar just to force the rhyme. Neil Diamond's "brang" is a prime example, but almost forgiveable, because almost everyone knows it's wrong. But Paula Cole's hit song that starts "Open up your morning light And say a little prayer for I ..." is actually even worse, to me, because it reinforces an all-too-common error. And it STILL doesn't rhyme! LOL Sometimes, even if your lyrics mostly have a rhyme pattern, it's better to throw in a non-rhyming couplet than force the rhyme in a contortionist way that butchers your language. But "mirror" paired with "clear," "beer," "cheer," etc. is fine with me, as in Dan Fogelberg's "Only The Heart May Know": "... Silent tears, yesterday's mirrors, Where are the summers, oh, where are the years?" And I still adore the inventive, comical not-quite-rhymes and groaningly forced rhymes of such composers as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, E Y Harburg, Johnny Mercer, etc. E.g., another from "If I Only Had A Brain" (Harburg/Arlen): "But I should show my prowess, be a lion not a meowess ..." "And perhaps I'd deserve you and be even worthy erv you, If I only had a brain. " |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Matt_R Date: 16 Sep 06 - 06:38 PM THis one is lame and insulting: Hot gingerbread and dynamite, Boy, I drink nothing but that each night, Back in Nagasaki where the fellows chew tobaccky And the women wicky-wacky-woo! Aw, man, how they entertain, I mean, they hurry a hurricane. Back in Nagasaki where the fellows chew tobaccky And the women wicky-wacky-woo! Fujiama, got a mama, Then your troubles increase, boy! It's a bottle in a, bottle in a, bottle in a, bottle in a, bottle in a Nagasaki! They hug and kiss each night, By jingo, boys, worth that price! Back in Nagasaki where the fellows chew tobaccky And the women wicky-wacky-woo! Back in Nagasaki where the fellows chew tobaccky And the women wicky-wacky-woo! |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,RolyPoly from Oly Date: 17 Sep 06 - 01:01 AM I was playing a song on my radio show one night about fifteen years ago, a serious love song about Mexico. Whoever it was doing the vocals dropped "cherish" on top of "mujeres". I stopped the song at that point and said that though my show was not all that serious, I wasn't about to allow that! Maybe somebody else heard it too, and can tell me who it was, because he had other rhymes that were just as awful before I pulled the plug. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: alanabit Date: 17 Sep 06 - 02:54 AM "The cit's clamour could never spoil The dreams of a boy and goil..." was definitely not one of Lorenz Hart's better efforts. I know it is a take off of a New York accent, but it was beyond even Ella Fitzgerald to make it sound right. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Snuffy Date: 17 Sep 06 - 07:11 PM But "mirror" paired with "clear," "beer," "cheer," etc. is fine with me, as in Dan Fogelberg's "Only The Heart May Know": So is "red" rhymed with "blue" OK with you as well? |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 17 Sep 06 - 09:09 PM Only if "red" and "blue" are pronounced as rhymes in the common parlance of a lot of people. Some say "love" doesn't actually rhyme with "of," either, but the way a lot of people talk, it does. I'm used to pronouncing "whales" and "wales" decidedly differently. People in some regions don't. Anyway, as several people have acknowledged, near-rhymes often work just fine in songs. I certainly don't mind "little" being coupled with "middle." |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,Jim Date: 18 Sep 06 - 12:15 PM Genie said (s)he doesn't mind near rhymes and I agree. Some times bad rhymes make a good song work. Fred Eaglesmith is one songwriter who puts the story ahead of the rhyme and it works (for me). The song HAROLD WILSON comes to mind. I had me a place on Thunder Ridge in a doomsday shack My wife she left and took the kids a couple of years back And I spent most of my mornings just thinking about that And my afternoons tryin' to figure out what to plant. While "shack" and "back" are rhymes, "that" also seems to work fine. ****************************************************** They sold that farm to some fool for six cents on the dollar. I saw him out ther last week; I's on the way to visit my daughter. Works for me. ******************************************************* The government cheques come down the pike as regular as rain. I sit out here most every night 'cept when the June bugs drive me in. Also works for me. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 18 Sep 06 - 12:56 PM Good examples, Jim. Let's not forget that it's been common in song and poetry for a long time to couple ending words that are SPELLED as though they'd rhyme but DON'T actually - at least not in contemporary practice. E.g., we Yanks think nothing of pairing "rain" with "again," even though we who live south of the Canadian border don't pronounce them as rhyming words. Going back to the Chris Williamson thing of "rhyming" the words "warrior" and "bore ya," while I think that may be the weakest line in "Song Of The Soul," the way Chris sings it -- the way most of us often talk -- it DOES rhyme. Leonard Cohen, for example, uses all sorts of 'rhyming slang' (and near-rhymes) all the way through his (IMO) masterpiece "Hallelujah! E.g., "before I knew ya," "someone who outdrew ya," etc. What did annoy me and grate on me is when some people reprinted Chris Williamson's lyrics as: "Come to your life like a warrior. Nothing will bore YER." Now THAT is gawdawful!! |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: 282RA Date: 18 Sep 06 - 01:16 PM I think the band America was a study in horrible lyrics: "I understand you've been running from a man who goes by the same of the sand man/ He rides the sky like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned" I mean, come on! And that became a hit! "I been through the desert on a horse with no name it felt good to be out of the rain/ In the desert you can't remember your name cuz there ain't no one for to give you no fame" GAG! "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't, didn't already have/ And cause never was the reason for the evening or the Tropic of Sir Galahad" Whaaaaaaaat??? Go through the lyrics of any America song, if you dare, it's all like that. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: 282RA Date: 18 Sep 06 - 01:28 PM Has anyone ever attempted to rhyme "postcard" with "coast guard"? |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Murray MacLeod Date: 18 Sep 06 - 04:02 PM Rhyming "mirror" with "cheer, beer, fear, tear etc is not so strange once you have watched any of Anne Maurice's "House Doctor" programmes. "Well, Alasdair, we're going to put a huge meer above the mantelpiece to create the illusion of space " |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Severn Date: 18 Sep 06 - 04:41 PM The members of America all met going to school in Britain, didn't they? A friend claims to have been to school with a few of them. Real Americans don't use English like that! Uniformly horrible stuff. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young as programmed by Reader's digest, but with bad grammar. "Asta never gave nothin' to the Thin Man that Sir Galla hadn't already had", indeed. ...Or whatever the Hell that drivel was.... |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST Date: 18 Sep 06 - 05:31 PM The Hash (rugby, too?) version of "Bicycle Built for Two" has an extremely force one:
Daisy, Daisy! Give me your answer true Obviously it needed a second verse for Daisy's reply. So I wrote one ... with just as bad a rhyme in the same place:
Henry, Henry! Here is your answer true. Sorry, I know I'm sick and twisted! *BG*
BB, |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Matt_R Date: 18 Sep 06 - 06:10 PM I like America, and yes, a lot of their songs have goofy lyrics. But most don't and are excellent. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Joe_F Date: 18 Sep 06 - 09:46 PM He was a sawmill proprietor, And she a young maid yet unkissed. One evening he winked his glass eye at her, But she said, "Nay, nay, sir! Desist!" -- "Vera" |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: RobbieWilson Date: 19 Sep 06 - 05:46 AM Tw'as there in the bakery surrounded by fakery As sung by E Clapton in " Sign Language" ( you talk o me in sign language while I'm eating a sandwich" It's not the sounds, tonal quality, matching syllables that make a crap rhyme it's the use of a completely inappropriate word in the context soley because it rhymes which makes the rhyme crap. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 20 Sep 06 - 02:38 AM I pretty much agree, Robbie. I'm sick of certain overused, unimaginative, "easy" rhymes, such as "I'll keep waiting, Anticipating ... " and bad grammar done just to force the rhyme, e.g. "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. O no, no, no you can't disguise ... " or "Hungry Eyes, One look at you and I can't disguise ..." (Disguise WHAT!!??) or "Hungry Eyes, I feel the magic between you and I ... " |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Snuffy Date: 20 Sep 06 - 09:12 AM If we're going by the standard that it's the use of a completely inappropriate word in the context solely because it rhymes which makes the rhyme crap, then this must qualify as one of MacColl's less glorious efforts: The old ways are passing and soon will be goneAs for rhyming "platic with "baskets", any comment of mine would be superfluous. Farewell to the blossom and besoms of broomI don't think either of these were intentionally bad, but even the greatest writers have their off days. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 20 Sep 06 - 12:13 PM Yeah, snuffy, they could've at least tried to work in a word like "gasket" instead. ;) Of course, the vocabularily-stumped* would-be rhymer can always fall back on the clever device used by many a troubadour and by Paul Simon in "Mrs. Robinson": And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. Jesus loves you more than you should know Oh oh oh What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Joltin Joe has left and gone away Hey hey hey. I actually love this song, including that sort of 'cheap rhyme', but it probably only works in a song that's a bit tongue-in-cheek. *OK, I made that word up. Sue me. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Genie Date: 05 Nov 06 - 01:44 AM It just occurred to me today that one of my favorite CCR songs has this 'rhyming' gem: Dinosaur Victrola Listening to Buck Owens ... Yup, that rhymes! LOL |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Declan Date: 05 Nov 06 - 05:31 AM It never rains in California, but girl let me warn ya I once wrote a song that never saw the light of day about a particular night out in Dublin. There was a very drunken man reciting "poetry" on the night in question. The verse went something like: "The poet was stretched out all over the table, To recite his poetry, he barely was able, His poem spoke of women, It seems he'd his bed full, I quite liked his verse, but his rhyming was dreadful" |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Darowyn Date: 05 Nov 06 - 06:49 AM I don't think that anyone should whinge about what I call regional rhymes. Rhyming mirror with beer would be terrible if I did it, but if it was a song from say Kentucky or Tennessee, it would probably be a genuine rhyme. You'd prbably get away with rhyming squirrel with girl too. In "I want to hold your hand", the Beatles rhyme "I think it's only fair" with "apologise to her". That is a true rhyme in Liverpool to this day. In my own house, my wife Wendy could rhyme book with spook, where coming from the opposite side of the Pennines, I would rhyme book with luck. I add my disdain for Neil Diamond's "brang", and as an example of the way in which perfect rhyming can be destructive and unintentionally comic, Billy Braggs lines go:- "I've always heard it said that love is based on understanding, Until that's true you'll find your stuff all stacked out on the landing " (Actually it might not be entirely unintentional here) Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland Date: 05 Nov 06 - 06:54 AM this is about Scots whisky Leave Us Our Glens (George Donald / Buff Hardie) I love Scotland's glens, and whatever else we lose Please leave us our glens, our glorious glens Our mountains as grand, Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond too You can have all those bens, but leave us our glens Glenfiddich, Glendronach, Glenlivet, Glen Grant Can you do without them? If you must know, I can't Put a drop in the glass of Glen Spey or Glen Drotter It's a perfectly bearable way to drink water I'd willingly lose our culture, or most of it Including that mess they call 'full Highland dress' With the whole ethnic bit of haggis and Hogmanay I'd gladly dispense, but leave us our glens Glenfiddich, Glendronach, Glenlivet, Glen Fall I once knew a man who had sampled them all Glenisla, Glenugie, Glenkinchie, that's plenty He looked sixty-five, but in fact he was twenty Take our Highlands scottische, take our marches, strathspeys and reels Take our old Scottish waltz, but leave us our malts You can take, if you wish, our ladies' conveniences And our gentlemen's - but leave us our glens Glenfiddich, Glendronach, Glenlivet, Glenfyne Was great at communion when we ran out of wine Glenisla, Glenugie, Glenkinchie, Glenmorangie I prefer them to Quantro which I find too orangey Oh breathe there a Scot whose aims and priorities When laid on the line, are different from mine Take our homes, take our jobs, take anything else you will Wife, family and friends, but leave us our glens (as sung by Iain MacKintosh) Susanne´s Folksong-Notizen [1987:] Buff Hardie (lyrics), George Donald (music). Written in 1975. (Hardie / Robertson / Donald, Scotland the What? Collected sketches and songs, Gordon Wright Publ., Edinburgh) [1995:] Glenmorangie [...] has a special kind of floweriness, a delicate yet unmistakeable fragrance, that I find extremely attractive. It is bottled at 70°, ten years old, and [...] is what I would call an all- purpose whisky. It is equally good as a pre- prandial and as a post- prandial drink, and I confess I have drunk it at many other times as well. There is a Glenmorangie which I have drunk at the distillery which is older and more full- bodied than that which is available bottled, possessing more richness and less delicacy than the latter. It goes for blending, of course [...]. At its best, Smith's Glenlivet combines a teasing subtlety of flavour with a distinctive 'nose' and fullness. These are not always sufficiently in evidence when bottled too young, but the firm's own bottling, twelve years old at 80°, gives one everything that could be desired in this noble whisky. I have tasted a Glenlivet put in cask in 1941 and bottled (by Berry Brothers & Rudd) in 1958, and the only note on it which I entered in my whisky scrap- book after the first glass was simply 'a superb whisky'. But later experience of comparing different ages and proofs leads me to believe that additional age over twelve years does not add all that much in quality and (within limits, of course) a twelve- year- old at a higher proof tastes better than an older whisky at a lower proof. But the twelve- year- old is decidedly better than anything younger. [...] How does Glenlivet compare with Glen Grant? In general character they are not dissimilar: each has that smooth integration of peatiness, softness and full sweetness (or almost sweetness) that needs age to bring it out. Like Glenlivet, Glen Grant is conspicuously better at ten or, better still, twelve years old than at, say, five (and it is available at five years old). There is a sharpness about a young Glen Grant that belies its true potential. [...] A well- matured Glen Grant has a splendid smoothness: it is not, perhaps, such a complexly patterned whisky in the combination of 'nose', taste and after- taste that is found in Glenlivet at its best, being a more single- minded whisky, as it were. [...] Glenfiddich [...] has a pleasing dry fragrance [...]. Glenkinchie, which so far as I know is not available as a single whisky but of which I have a sample bottle from an Edinburgh blending firm [...] is a very agreeable whisky, slightly sweeter and perhaps just a trifle sharper than Rosebank. (Daiches, Scotch Whisky. Its Past and Present 170ff) [1998:] Written for 'Scotland the What?' 'Glen Drotter' is probably a made up name in order to get the rhyme. (Pr. comm., ICM) Quelle: Scotland L-Index |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Darowyn Date: 05 Nov 06 - 09:07 AM Oops- it's "She Loves You" not "I want to Hold Your Hand" Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Nov 06 - 09:14 AM Both from the Turtles - although I do believe they did it on purpose. Or should that be on porpoise? Oh , never mind. I realy think you're groovy Lets go out to a movie further along Your lips intoxicate me even though your folks hate me and, the chorus. Not strictly a rhyme but the worse example of fitting a meter in badly Elenor, gee, I think your swell and you realy do me well you're my pride and joy etcetera They don't write 'em like that any more. :D (tG) |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Charley Noble Date: 05 Nov 06 - 09:57 AM From my song "Cowardly Act": The truth would surely challenge the most bizarre criteria – That cow'd been rustled by Russians from her pasture in Siberia. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Flash Company Date: 05 Nov 06 - 10:54 AM Johnnie Mercer was responsible for this one, so politically incorrect you couldn't sing it now:- The other girls can go to Europe, and mix in high society, And they can wed a Count or Marquis, Or a Russian, or a darky, But when I get married, and settle in Brooklyn, He may be a hobo, a hick or a rueben, But he has to be a Cuban! FC |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Nov 06 - 11:06 AM Several distinct reason why people say somethings a "bad rhyme". One is where the words in question just don't rhyme. But sometimes this criticism is misplaced, because in English there are a wide variety of varieties of rhyme, and the "perfect rhyme" is only one of these - and not always the best one to use. A too perfect and predictable rhyme can in fact come across as trite. And in fact some of the examples of "bad rhymes" offered up in this thread fall into that category - perfect but trite. And there are perfect rhymes which are in a way the opposite of that - they are so unexpected they come across as forced and over artificial. Which is OK as a comic device, but lianbkle to be disastrous in other contexts. And there are rhymes which work in some accents/dialects, but not in the one used by the critic. (I'd say that "warrior" and "bore ya" probably fall that category, since many Americans do seem to pronounce "warrior" as "wore-ya" where the English would say worr-ya.) .................. One way of getting away with a rhyme using an unusual word, when you don't want it to sound comic, is to use the unusual word first, and the common word as the rhyme, rather than the other way round. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: curmudgeon Date: 05 Nov 06 - 11:37 AM Tequila Sheila by Shel Silverstein -- "I never thought you were a squeeler, Sheiler" Linn (Bat Goddess) forgot to change from Tom's cookie and don't have time now |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 05 Nov 06 - 06:49 PM McGonigal has already been mentioned. That should have killed the thread.... |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,frogprod Date: 05 Nov 06 - 07:02 PM on the subject of America's lyrics: while it has nothing to do with rhyme, it IS one of the worst lines of all time - "the heat was hot" |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Nov 06 - 07:13 PM Unless "the heat" meant "the police". (I'm not saying it does in that line, since I don't know the context - but sometimes words aren't that straightforward.) |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,frogprod Date: 05 Nov 06 - 07:47 PM well, the words all seem to refer to weather and nature, so I presume it refers to temperature rather than police... and, come to think of it, there is at least one very bad rhyme in there - "clouds" and "sound"... it's from A HORSE WITH NO NAME On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: JennieG Date: 05 Nov 06 - 09:31 PM I'm with Genie above - I reckon Leonard Cohen's rhymes in 'Hallelulia' are execrable. They make me grit my teeth and flinch whenever I hear them. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: johnross Date: 05 Nov 06 - 10:57 PM From "The State of Illinois" (or as it appears in Sandburg's "American SOngbag," El-a-noy) Away up in the northward, Right on the border line, A great commercial city, Chicago, you will find. Her men are all like Abelard, Her women like Heloise; All honest, virtuous people, For they live in Illinois. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: leeneia Date: 05 Nov 06 - 11:08 PM From "As we march-ed down to Fenario" -- I love you most of all, Captain Willie-o, I love you most of all, Captain Willie-o, I love you most of all, but your fortune is too small. I'm afraid that my mother would be angry-o. Eh? I have folk-processed this abject lack of rhyme to a merely clumsy rhyme by changing Willie to Danny. How much you wanna bet it was Danny originally? |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: Barbara Date: 06 Nov 06 - 12:35 AM Tom Lehrer: "I love her and she loves me And happy are the both of we" Of course he is spoofing Gilbert and Sullivan's style. It's from the song where he sings "Clementine " in the manner of a number of famous composers. Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: leeneia Date: 06 Nov 06 - 08:02 AM Whether he's spoofing or not, Barbara, you're right that that is an awful rhyme. |
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Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever From: GUEST,SqueezeMe Date: 06 Nov 06 - 08:37 AM Used to play in an Aussie bush band who opened their show with a song containing the immortal lines: "We play our music to entertain ya The songs and music of Austra-ya" Shear poetry! MC |
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