You will now sing every new limerick you hear for the rest of your life.
There was a young woman named Bright.
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night!This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.
Enough. At first I was like, “Yeah, I love Alphaville!” However, upon further reflection, it occurred to me that I had confused Alphaville with two separate Austin-based bands, Alpha Rev and Storyville.
I’d did check out that album and sure…
There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket.I’d always assumed the lyrics to this were far obscene :/
Oh, they are. That’s a clean version.
There was a young lady called Jean
Who fell in a washing machine
She tumbled around
Till she almost drowned
But she came out remarkably clean
I couldn’t remember the tune to Home on the Range, so I used Piano Man, and that worked.
Yeah that is a limerick
No idea what that even is, so no wörries, I won’t
‘Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket’ … well, sort of works.
No it isn’t.
Mmmmyeah it essentially is, except for the first line.
Doesn’t the first line of home on the range have five syllables? Limericks have 8
essentially a limerick
The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine (“There once was a man from Nantucket…”). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.
