MAY 20, singable satire: Bob Dylan sings "A FICKLE TWIST of VERSE", part #2

  PARODY-LYRICS, based on traditional poetry (limericks)

ORIGINAL SONG: "Simple Twist of Fate" Bob Dylan 1975; covers by Diana Krall and Sean Costello are recommended.
ORIGINAL POETRY: At Wikipedia (click HERE), you can find a discussion of limericks dealing with the 'man from Nantucket'.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, July 2016, followup to an earlier post.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "A Fickle Twist of Verse" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

PRIOR OFFERINGS: (as per the initial post of April 10, 2021)
1. "There once was a man from Nantucket" (clean version) - 3 verses, unattributed.
2. "There once was a man from Nantucket" (dirty version) - cleaned up by G.C.
3. "A dozen, a gross and a score" - Leigh Mercer

4. "There was an old miser named Clarence" - Ogden Nash

5. "There was a brave girl of Connecticut" - Ogden Nash 
6. "There was a young belle of Old Natchez" - Ogden Nash

 Chorus. "People say it makes them sick" - Giorgio Coniglio

CURRENT CONTENTS: (more limericks from the classic repertoire, as interpreted by Bob Dylan.)

7. "A flea and a fly in a flue" - author unknown, often attributed to O.N.

8. "There was a young lady of station" - Lewis Carroll 
9. "A wonderful bird is the pelican" - Dixon Merritt 
10. "There was a young lady named Bright" - Reginald Buller
11. "There was an old man of Peru" - Edward Lear 
12. "There was a young fellow of Wheeling" - traditional 
13. "Hickory dickory dock" - traditional
 Chorus. "People say it makes them sick" - Giorgio Coniglio

A FICKLE TWIST OF VERSE, part #2

(to the tune of "Simple Twist of Fate")

7. A flea and fly within a flue

Felt flustered, they were in a stew; 

Didn’t know just what to do 

And finally they saw -  

The flue had a flagrant flaw 

To flee or fly – no worse, than 

To fuss with a fickle twist of verse. 

8. “I love Man” – sole exclamation

Of a young lass high in station 

(“Isle of Man” her explanation); 
“You flatter”, men believed,  
And yes, they were deceived. 
“No matter” if she flirts,
As she asserts in this Lewis Carroll

 verse.  

9. A wondrous bird – the pelican    
His bill holds more than his belican 

I’m damned if I see how the helican 

Take all that in his beak -  

Food enough for a week;  

I guess the bird rehearses   

Weekly, for this simple twist of verse. 

10. A lady traveller named Miss Bright

Exceeded ‘c’, the speed of light, 

Returned from trips the prior night  

That she’d started the next day, 

In a relative way.  

That’s Einstein’s universe  

Reflected in a fickle twist of verse.

11. There was an old man of Peru;

One day his young wife made a stew. 

Folks thought she knew just what to

   do,

Cause from their house she ran.  

He was found in their stewing pan;  

Which triggered some alerts 

For older guys in this simple twist

  of verse. 

12. A sensitive young guy from

  Wheeling 
Found the coach-door sign revealing. 

So he jumped, spat on the ceiling; 

Rather than the floor,  

As instructions did implore:  

Train signage known for terseness   

Spoofed in this twisted lim’rick verse.

13. Hick’ry dick’ry dick’ry dock

A timid mouse ran up the clock. 

The time had come for taking stock; 

So when the clock struck ten,  

He ran down the clock again,  

For better or for worse;   

As Dylan sang in this twisted nursery verse.

 

CHORUS: People say it makes them sick

To hear too many limericks;
I fear it had become my shtick,
But now I've lost the knack,
With no good jokes to crack --
A tendency perverse;
Blame it on a fickle twist of verse.

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