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!
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.
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.
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.
15 Comments
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
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!
fubo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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...
NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
craftyindividual@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
I'd always assumed the lyrics to this were far obscene :/
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Oh, they are. That's a clean version.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y
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
burkybang@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I couldn’t remember the tune to Home on the Range, so I used Piano Man, and that worked.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah that is a limerick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n602qiAzwDM
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
'Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket' ... well, sort of works.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
No idea what that even is, so no wörries, I won't
cornshark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Doesn't the first line of home on the range have five syllables? Limericks have 8
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
amio@kbin.run · 0 pts · 2y
No it isn't.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Mmmmyeah it essentially is, except for the first line.