This blogpost is dedicated to P.H., with best holiday and BIRTHDAY wishes, December 2017.
SINGABLE LIMERICKS inspired by a recent visit to Vancouver Island's appealing east coast.
SINGABLE LIMERICKS inspired by a recent visit to Vancouver Island's appealing east coast.
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. Additionally, it was realized that with a few mild modifications, the same lyrics could be sung to the ballad "Black Velvet Band" as sung by the Irish-Canadian band The Irish Rovers. ballad. A number of verses are displayed using this chord-sequence as well - WIP.
ORIGINAL LIMERICK VERSE: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2016.
ORIGINAL LIMERICK VERSE: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2016.
LIMERICKS ABOUT CHEMAINUS, B.C.
(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.)
He snarfed heavenly Stars, / Milky-Ways and Mars bars,
But his fave nighttime site was Uranus.
(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.)
The industrial base of Chemainus
Its historical murals explain us
Its historical murals explain us
A few ancestors thrived / (logging barely survived) --
Their respect for the land was disdainous.
Their respect for the land was disdainous.
On Mt. Sicker o’erlooking the brine
Lived a miner with child Clementine.
She ran off with a logger / (as retold by this blogger),
Took his liquor, and shoes number nine.
Gord, an eco-wise man near Chemainus,
Panned for gold, an old tale to entrain us.
But it’s not as you think -- / he adored tin or zinc,
But the ore he deplored was uranous.
Rex, a royalist chap from Chemainus,
Thought that monarchists’ views should constrain us.
In his note to the Queen / He expressed why he’s keen,
“Visit! Come over soon, for you reign us.”
An astronomy buff from Chemainus
Suffered craving for chocolate most heinous.
Suffered craving for chocolate most heinous.
But his fave nighttime site was Uranus.
In a bar, not too far from Chemainus,
Sang a man with guitar to refrain us.
"From your face wipe that grin! / townfolks' patience grows thin:
Your poor verses do not entertain us."
Sang a man with guitar to refrain us.
"From your face wipe that grin! / townfolks' patience grows thin:
Your poor verses do not entertain us."
Authors' Note: For ecological reasons, the mining of uranium has been banned in British Columbia for several decades. Uranium has been extensively extracted from pitchblende ore at sites elsewhere in Canada, and is present in the reduced or 'uranous' chemical state.
In the late 1890s, copper, gold and silver were discovered at Mt. Sicker on Vancouver Island. A gold-rush ensued, and mines were operated profitably in the area until 1909.
Today, the town of Chemainus (sheh-MAYN-uhs) is best known for its extensive exterior wall-murals which depict the history of its once-thriving resource extraction industries.
The Dominion Astrophysical Laboratory, site of many important discoveries about the Milky Way, is located 70 km south, in Saanich BC.
The saga continues ... See part #2 for the second half of this intriguing adventure. Click HERE.
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