FEB 30, (28c), singable satire: "PEN OF RABBITS" (non-hunters' martial melody)

Harlech castle, Wales,
web-photo

 Today's Offering, Feb 30 (28c): SINGABLE SATIRE

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Men of Harlech", a traditional Welsh hymn

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2013; performed at the Corktown Ukulele Jam.

Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions. 

 To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "PEN OF RABBITS" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

You can also view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website where they were first developed at AmIRight.com. 

Charlotte Church, child diva
 sings "Men of Harlech"

PEN of RABBITS

(to the tune of "Men of Harlech")

Welsh 'rarebit';
no rabbits harmed 

Singable Introduction:
Still today caer Harlech perches,

Dominating YouTube searches - 

Startling, stirring [1], song of Church's

Steals your breath away.

Here’s a song about Welsh Rare-bit, 

Squarely dealing with the hare-bits --

Seen on fare-bills quite a fair bit,

Patrons seem perplexed.

Rabbit Welsh –- offensive nomen-

-clature used by Saxon foemen ?

“No Welsh eats, but cheese and dough, man,

‘less they poach some game.” [2]

Meat-free choice? Just ask your hostess,

Beer-and-cheese-melt over toast; its

Celtic fans applaud and boast, it’s

Cambria’s national dish.

Some meat-shunners might eschew it

Thinking it a hunter’s stew –- but 
It lacks lagomorphs [3], that’s true –- Bugs

Outwits Elmer Fudd!

Rare-bit search is Brasch’s [2]

Hare terse-verse is Nash’s [4]                 

‘HoJo’ wrote the spoof ‘Woad Ode’ [5]

Coniglio [6] penned some flashes.

Hail a dish that harms no hopsters;

Not how Newberg hassles lobsters,

Fwycassees can fweak out sqwabsters --

Free the Cornish hen!

Easter rabbit hunt, New Zealand

Sadly, elsewhere, butchered rabbit

Satisfies game-lovers’ habits;

Easter special –- Braised Brunch-Basket:

Bunny-love abused.

Hard life in the burrows,

Where bereavement’s thorough.

Peters sad, their mom or dad

Got skewered for lunch ‘al burro’ [7].

Hail a world that harms no hopsters,

Fricassees make quail no squabsters,

Calves should escape escalope, sirs !

Peace in field and warren !

[1] Charlotte Church aged 13, recorded the traditional ‘Men of Harlech’, 1998.

[2] Dr R. Brasch discusses the origins of ‘Welsh rarebit/rabbit’ in ‘How Did It Begin’ , MJF Books, 2006.

[3] herbivorous mammals in a zoologic order which includes rabbits and hares.

[4] Ogden Nash’s well-known 2-line poem, ‘The Rabbits’

[5] Best-known spoof on the song: a Boy-Scout song based on the tradition among ancient Britons of fighting naked in woad dye, by Eton housemaster W. Hope-Jones, 'HoJo', 1921

[6] Coniglio: name derived from the Italian word for rabbit 

[7] culinary term in Italian for 'prepared in a butter sauce'

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