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Song Parodies -> "Me Drill Epistrophe with Glee"
Original Song Title:
"She's Still A Mystery to Me"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Lovin' Spoonful
Parody Song Title:
"Me Drill Epistrophe with Glee"
Parody Written by:
John A. Barry
The Lyrics
Epistrophe (i-PIS-struh-fee): repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive, phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses, especially for rhetorical or poetic effect, as in Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people" [from the Gettysburg Address, alluded to in this parody]--Merriam-Webster's Collegiate; limn: delineate; pedagogy: teaching/education
Back in your school days, those hated rule days--
She speaks of metaphor.
Then you beseech her, your English teacher.
To limn this speech figure.
No smile. . .she thinks you're a dimbo.
A smile YOU crack. Here's what you say:
"You grill and grill me; yet I constantly get it wronger, longer.
"Please drill epistrophe in me,
I need to grow grammatic'ly."
I can't stand this woman's pedagogy.
I keep scoring Cs (I keep scoring Cs)
So then she gets Gettysburgy (Gettysburgy)--
Uses the railsplitter's lean speech.
"You boob, you've blundered, you're a dunderheaded wunderdunce.
You've gotta grasp it. You're gonna grasp it. You've gotta smarten up!
"Each time, you stooge, at the end goes
The word(s). . .at back of 'nother phrase.
Repetition of 'people' makes his petition stronger, longer."
Instilled epistrophe in me,
She made me grow gramatic'ly.
Handle this woman epithetic'ly
With epistrophe, I say, Amishly:
"Thou bore, f*ck thee. That's it, f*ck thee. And this: f*ck thee."
Me drill epistrophe with glee! . . .
She speaks of metaphor.
Then you beseech her, your English teacher.
To limn this speech figure.
No smile. . .she thinks you're a dimbo.
A smile YOU crack. Here's what you say:
"You grill and grill me; yet I constantly get it wronger, longer.
"Please drill epistrophe in me,
I need to grow grammatic'ly."
I can't stand this woman's pedagogy.
I keep scoring Cs (I keep scoring Cs)
So then she gets Gettysburgy (Gettysburgy)--
Uses the railsplitter's lean speech.
"You boob, you've blundered, you're a dunderheaded wunderdunce.
You've gotta grasp it. You're gonna grasp it. You've gotta smarten up!
"Each time, you stooge, at the end goes
The word(s). . .at back of 'nother phrase.
Repetition of 'people' makes his petition stronger, longer."
Instilled epistrophe in me,
She made me grow gramatic'ly.
Handle this woman epithetic'ly
With epistrophe, I say, Amishly:
"Thou bore, f*ck thee. That's it, f*ck thee. And this: f*ck thee."
Me drill epistrophe with glee! . . .
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This was too deep for me to comprehend...so I figure it must be good..all fives.
I had a few teachers along the way that I would have loved to drill hehehe...fear of the lawsuits thankfully kept me a virgin until I was 12 :-)))))))))))))))- - -
JB, aren't you concerned that if you keep this up YOUR HEAD'S GONNA EXPLODE??? ;-)
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