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Please read the text below as you listen to each individual limerick in order to grasp my impugnable homophonic punning at the expense of various classical composer names.

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I. [Handel's Bar]

The result of some nasty Bartok
Was a Mahler's Fauré Offenbach.
. . ."Now aren't these Menotti,"
. . .Said Handel Scarlatti,
"Haydn these Sessions in Bach!"

II.

An arranger from old Düsseldorf
Was a rude, confrontational dwarf.
. . .When his work was refused,
. . .He had stood and accused,
"You cannot Telemann to fugue Orff!"

III.

Frescobaldi, a Barber for Boyce,
Shoeck the Bloch with his Weill singing voice.
. . .Des Prez he'll move on
. . .And not Karajan
Cutting hair so Carulli with noise.


IV. [Poor Richard's Rung Cycle or, Whiz Kid]

When Herr Wagner was no longer young,
Eine Hode was still hardly hung.
. . .As a teen top a ladder,
. . .He emptied his bladder
And slipped off the Götterdämmerung.

V.

My Moroccan friend, Benjam, is smitten
By wanderlust, thus I have written:
. . .Segovia Spain,
. . .Khachaturian train,
'Ere long you'll be, Benjam, in Britten.

VI. [Eine Kleine Nacht Fugue]

Sprach die junge Frau Bach to her spouse:
"Ich krank of your fugueing heraus;
. . .Mach your fugueing herein,
. . .Und maybe you'll find
Some more kleinen Bachs in den Haus!"

© 1985 KAM

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from Words Over Music (spoken word tracks), track released August 20, 2012
Cover design by JT Lindroos

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For music fans who think outside the boxy confines of genre labels, find here my original work arranged for and performed on a variety of instruments for sounds ranging from sweet to sassy and reedy to brassy; from lofty to lowdown and soulful to hoedown; from serious to silly and urban to hillbilly. I urge you to click on my production notes/lyrics before or as you push play. ☼♥ ... more

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