JUN 30, singable sesquicentennial satire: CANADA DAY 2017 FRQ

PARODY-SONG with GUEST ARTISTS (various authors contributing limerick verses)

ORIGINAL SONG: These verses can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as in "The Flea and the Fly", or various versions of the Nantucket limerick. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Contributions to the lyrics were made by a number of web-authors. These were collated by Giorgio Coniglio, originally in June 2015. In 2017, to commemorate the Sesquicentennial, improved chord-charts, two new final verses and a few new illustrations were added.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To see the powerpoint-type presentation, and find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Canada Day 2017" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

CONTENTS:
1. INTRO: Confederation
2. British Columbia
3. Alberta
4. Saskatchewan
5. Manitoba
6. Ontario
7. Quebec
8. New Brunswick
9. Nova Scotia
10. Prince Edward Island
11. Newfoundland
12. Nunavut
13. Northwest Territories (NWT)
14. The Yukon
15. Canadian Diaspora: Expat on Nantucket
16. Sesquicentennial

CANADA DAY 2017

A LIMERICK MEDLEY

(to the tune of "The Limerick Song")

 To make the limericks look more like singable verse, lines 3 and 4 of the traditional 5-line format are compressed so that a four-line stanza (with an internal rhyme in the third line) results. 

Original lyrics by G.C. are noted here:

2. New to British Columbia? Rain

Won't extinguish the anguish and strain.

Frequent downpours and drizzle cause incentive to fizzle.

Cherish sunny climes? Get on a plane.

8. For your ode to the spell of New Brunswick

It bodes well that you threw in some puns, Rick;

For the Tidal Bore run daily spews through Moncton,

And the fine view of Fredricton stuns, Rick.

10. Those who cross to petite P.E. Island

Would concur there's no way it's a dry land;

Its calm temperate seas host some great seafood sprees:

Sunday church-dinner, lobster and pie land. 

14. Kim Jong Un, please don't dare drop a nuke on

That magical place called 'The Yukon'.

Visit soon, bring kimchee; our soil's rocky, you'll see,

And so cold that you can't grow a cuke on. 

15. Nan, an expat Canuck on Nantucket

In that land, with man Stan, had got stuck,"It 

Upsets me - bland beer - can't stand what they swill here.

Stan will head back up North, or I'll chuck it."

16. We're approaching our sesquicentennial

Each year, eh? we've a party perennial.

This year's crowds, coast to coast, John A's vision will toast;

Count on thirty mill. celebrants, many will.

John A. MacDonald - first Prime Minister of Canada