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; the curent collection is a followup to earlier posts (part #1) and part #2.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "A Fickle Twist of Verse" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
prior offerings: (initial post of April 20, 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
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
prior offerings: (followup post of August 30, 2021)
5. "There was a brave girl of Connecticut" -- Ogden Nash
6. "There was a young belle of Old Natchez" -- Ogden Nash
6. "There was a young belle of Old Natchez" -- Ogden Nash
7. "A flea and a fly in a flue" -- author unknown, often attributed to Ogden Nash
8. "There was a young lady of station" -- Lewis Carroll
"A wonderful bird is the pelican" -- Dixon Merritt
CURRENT CONTENTS: (more limericks from the classic repertoire, as interpreted by Bob Dylan.)
"There was a young lady named Bright" -- Reginald Buller
"There was an old man of Peru" -- Edward Lear
"There was a young fellow of Wheeling" -- unattributed
"Hickory dickory dock" -- traditional
Chorus. "People say it makes them sick" -- Giorgio Coniglio
(to the tune of "Simple Twist of Fate")
9. A wondrous bird – the pelican
His bill holds more than his belican
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.
Wheeling
Found the coach-door sign revealing.
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.
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.
