PARODY SONG-LYRICS
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| Occasional binomials show alliteration (e.g. one and only) |
There’s latitude and longitude, and lads and lasses, lemon — lime,
And lend or lease, last (but not least), and lords and ladies, mock and mime.
And live and learn, and mind o’er matter, mounts and molehills, lock and latch,
And over — out, lewd and lascivious, love or leave it, mix and match.
There’s meek and mild, and name and number, now or never, men and mice,
Out and about, it’s odds and evens, one and only, on thin ice.
There’s prince and pauper, prim and proper, pen and paper, peas in pod,
And pig in poke, and poems and prose, and pots and pans, and poke and prod.
There’s “Pride” and also “Prejudice”, and publish — perish, parcel post,
(In Britain, they’ve been smitten with odd variants like “rule the roast”),
And pain and pleasure, quake and quiver, quirks and quarks, and rant and rave,
And rough and ready, right or wrong, no rhyme or reason, scratch and save.
There’s rock and roll, repair — reset, and rest and rehab, rod and reel,
And rags to riches, rules and regs, and search and seizure, sign and seal.
And signs and symptoms, short but sweet, and sink or swim, and run- arounds,
— From sea to shining sea there’s stress and strain amid the sights and sounds.
The Stars and Stripes, once spick and span, show slow but steady slip and slide;
With toil and trouble, trials and tribulations, trick or treat, and tried
But true (that’s cause to sue), sticks — stones, unfit — unable, tit for tat,
Through thick or thin, and toss and turn, and tots and toddlers, this-or-that.
There’s tarts and tortes, and truck and trailer, sugar — spice, and top and tail
And vice and virtue, vim and vigor, wax and wane, and weep and wail,
And wash and wear, and wild and woolly, warp and weft, and where or when,
Within — without, and whys and wherefores, watch and wait, and yearn and yen.
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