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Song Parodies -> "What Rhymes With Orange?"
Original Song Title:
"The Sound of Silence"
Original Performer:
Simon and Garfunkel
Parody Song Title:
"What Rhymes With Orange?"
Parody Written by:
Red Ant
The Lyrics
All words in quotes are the closest misrhymes I could think of and fit into the parody.
Forget "door hinge", poet's friend
I need a rhyme and words will bend!
I'm on a mission that's so fruity
But I feel that it's my duty
As an author,
So perfection is attained
Rack my brains
But nothing rhymes - with orange!
A wicked dream I thought "garage"
With no N that's a "mirage"
Then I came up with a "horse syringe"
So big it would make a junky "whore cringe"!
And my mind was grabbed,
By thought of a perfect rhyme
I'll never find
'cause nothing rhymes - with orange!
And in the dead of night I coughed
I took a "lozenge" that I bought
I got hungry and ate "porridge"
How'd that wind up in my "storage"?
And I pondered on,
That word is surely there
(But) where o where?
I seek a rhyme - with orange!
Waste of time well this I know
At least I'm "original"!
Search for words not a "bor-ing" one
Even check for the "for-eign" ones
But my search,
Not going all that well
Takes "courage" - to find rhymes - with orange!
Not a perfect rhyme is found
I thought orange won this round
But I noticed that while writing
Sound of Silence is free-rhyming*
By design it allows orange to be,
So written to not rhyme at all
My mission recalled
(To) Hell with - finding rhymes -
- with orange!
I need a rhyme and words will bend!
I'm on a mission that's so fruity
But I feel that it's my duty
As an author,
So perfection is attained
Rack my brains
But nothing rhymes - with orange!
A wicked dream I thought "garage"
With no N that's a "mirage"
Then I came up with a "horse syringe"
So big it would make a junky "whore cringe"!
And my mind was grabbed,
By thought of a perfect rhyme
I'll never find
'cause nothing rhymes - with orange!
And in the dead of night I coughed
I took a "lozenge" that I bought
I got hungry and ate "porridge"
How'd that wind up in my "storage"?
And I pondered on,
That word is surely there
(But) where o where?
I seek a rhyme - with orange!
Waste of time well this I know
At least I'm "original"!
Search for words not a "bor-ing" one
Even check for the "for-eign" ones
But my search,
Not going all that well
Takes "courage" - to find rhymes - with orange!
Not a perfect rhyme is found
I thought orange won this round
But I noticed that while writing
Sound of Silence is free-rhyming*
By design it allows orange to be,
So written to not rhyme at all
My mission recalled
(To) Hell with - finding rhymes -
- with orange!
copyright 2006+ Jack "Red Ant" Fletcher *Unrhymed line, in this case the title line.
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maybe you'd have better luck with silver ?....purple ?.....5s
Oar fringe? 5s
Very funny, Jack. I'll write more later..this deserves it. ; )
First I was depressed and blue, after this some orange shined through... 5's
555, not too familiar with the song, but it's very well written.
There's no rind or reason not to love this song! 555
I love your language parodies, Jack...this was priceless. 555
Hey Jack--555 for you--orange you glad you wrote this parody?
Way to peel this one off. Now you don't have to forage for a... no, that doesn't work, either...
Only two I've heard:
RR whels were painted orange
But they jumped the track - had poor flange
Alas, the lonely orange
It sits all day in storange
Fives for having the guts to tackle the "squaring the circle" of poetry.
RR whels were painted orange
But they jumped the track - had poor flange
Alas, the lonely orange
It sits all day in storange
Fives for having the guts to tackle the "squaring the circle" of poetry.
If the waitresses name was Angie..she knew your tables drink preference, and there was a quartet at your table...you could say, "Four, Ang"....excellent writing..five, five, five
Amazing parody, so funny.
Thanks Alvin, John, Pat, Matthias, Step-chan, PMS, Kristof, MasonR, Michael, Tommy Turtle, AFW and Larry.
The line "By thought of a perfect rhyme" should read "By the thought of a perfect rhyme". Now that that's out of the way...
Alvin: No perfect rhymes with those either, and there are probably even fewer near rhymes for those words.
John: Maybe a interior designer with a kayaking hobby could use that in a parody! I did consider "orphan" but ended up canning it.
Kristof: I appreciate that, though when it comes to using English properly I am "incorrigible". ;-)
Mason R: I tried to get that old knock-knock joke worked in but it hard too many syllables to scan. To answer your question: yes, I am. Your comment and the others are very "encouraging".
Michael: "Forage" was also on my brainstorm list, it too wound up not getting used.
TT: Never heard those, they are a bit stretched. I hope there are no "more in jest".
AFW: That's creative - if she was a red-head you didn't like you might call her a "morange". Yep, a perfect rhyme exists with orange, though it is slang and from what I gathered fairly derrogatory.
The line "By thought of a perfect rhyme" should read "By the thought of a perfect rhyme". Now that that's out of the way...
Alvin: No perfect rhymes with those either, and there are probably even fewer near rhymes for those words.
John: Maybe a interior designer with a kayaking hobby could use that in a parody! I did consider "orphan" but ended up canning it.
Kristof: I appreciate that, though when it comes to using English properly I am "incorrigible". ;-)
Mason R: I tried to get that old knock-knock joke worked in but it hard too many syllables to scan. To answer your question: yes, I am. Your comment and the others are very "encouraging".
Michael: "Forage" was also on my brainstorm list, it too wound up not getting used.
TT: Never heard those, they are a bit stretched. I hope there are no "more in jest".
AFW: That's creative - if she was a red-head you didn't like you might call her a "morange". Yep, a perfect rhyme exists with orange, though it is slang and from what I gathered fairly derrogatory.
DKTOS, but the title made me had to look. As far as I know, there are four words that have no rhyme: orange (duh), silver, purple and month.
Maybe you'll have to settle for a bowl of porringe...
all your trademarks here, Antman (nod there to Kristof) - out-there idea, lateral, and diligently executed - great stuff - and (continuing AFW's line) if Ange was really hungry after a stretch on the cheap tanning machines, and you took her to a Mexican restaurant where they knew you so well you only had to say "ench" to indicate a desire for multiple enchiladas, you could order "4 ench for orange Ange" - 555
Oranges...\o/. I had a somewhat rhyme, but it really didn't fit. Something like "orangya (aren't you).. You'll have people wracking their brains on this one a while.
Apparently we have been doing research on the same sites lately, though I settled for a shorter and less know OS:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/thegodfathers0.shtml
http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/thegodfathers0.shtml
I was too weak and pathetic to bother finding an OS at all: http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,10115.msg440475.html#msg440475
Fine work, Red Ant. On to turquoise and aquamarine!
Fine work, Red Ant. On to turquoise and aquamarine!
I was too weak and pathetic to bother finding an OS at all: http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,10115.msg440475.html#msg440475
Fine work, Red Ant. On to turquoise and aquamarine!
Fine work, Red Ant. On to turquoise and aquamarine!
Thanks bobpiecheese, Phil, Stu, Peter, Luke and Luke.
bobpiecheese: There are about fourteen single-syllable words in English that have no perfect rhymes, I can't remember them all but "angst" and "ninth" are two of them.
Phil, I had to look that one up. Archaic and obscure, but apparently there are about 15 rhymes with orange, most were proper or made-up names falling into the archaic and obscure category as well.
Stu: Lol on the continued line, which would make an interesting "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" parody if you wanted to. Good to see you back.
Pat: "Aren't you" is close but a broken rhyme. Most of what I listed in quotes were either broken or half-rhymes.
Peter: I'll check out yours in a minute.
Luke (x2): I'll give your thread a look-see in a bit as well. As for turquoise and aquamarine, no need to find rhymes for them really for songs like this one.
bobpiecheese: There are about fourteen single-syllable words in English that have no perfect rhymes, I can't remember them all but "angst" and "ninth" are two of them.
Phil, I had to look that one up. Archaic and obscure, but apparently there are about 15 rhymes with orange, most were proper or made-up names falling into the archaic and obscure category as well.
Stu: Lol on the continued line, which would make an interesting "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" parody if you wanted to. Good to see you back.
Pat: "Aren't you" is close but a broken rhyme. Most of what I listed in quotes were either broken or half-rhymes.
Peter: I'll check out yours in a minute.
Luke (x2): I'll give your thread a look-see in a bit as well. As for turquoise and aquamarine, no need to find rhymes for them really for songs like this one.
And in Cambridge
"Rindge and Latin" school remains
The one school named
With either
The word
La--tin or Rindge
www.cpsd.us/crls/
"Rindge and Latin" school remains
The one school named
With either
The word
La--tin or Rindge
www.cpsd.us/crls/
Thanks Johnny D.
That was funny Anything that's described as fruity besides snacks makes it sound peciuliar, yet humourous still 555
Very good.. is there a perfect rhyme for piano ? I think that should go on the list of un-rhymable words.
CW - Paul DiAnno might think there is... and what you might say to your wife just before she throws a vase at you: "Dear... no!" ;-)
Thanks CW and Phil - good one there.
(ABC3) First time reading, for some reason. Lovely meta-parody writing here.
(ABC3) You spent a lot of work on this!
ABC3 - Fruity parody.
(ABC) See above.
So, what you do, see, is, you learn Spanish and come up with rhymes for naranja. Lemme see......hmmmm.....there's gotta be one somewhere.......just give me time to think........
(ABC3W) See above. Twas great getting reacquaintented with this one.
I could've sworn I already commented on this. Anyway, brilliant parody here. So very very true. 5-5-5
(ABC3-W) Thought provoking and frustrating. How about this:Playwright William Inge was told by his play's promoter, "This play is a flop, I'm not gonna back it any more, Inge!"Nah, that's two words. Now this will haunt me for days. 555
(ABC) see above - wow, I forgot about this one (definitely forgot about my comment - what was I on?) - quite brilliant and one of my faves of yours Jack
Very "original"!
(ABC) What can I say? Genius! Although I think "door hinge" would work...if pronounced in a thick Cockney accent!
(ABC) I share your pain about rhyming. I would just try to avoid using the word orange altogether. Good job.
Thanks to Aggy, poo, Max, Johnny D, Michael, Kristof, Charnstar, Rick, Stu, Matthias and Cat!
MM: I failed spectacularly in Spanish, but I'll take a stab at it: "more ganja", "or launch a"... okay, back to you. ;)
Rick: Two words to make a rhyme is fine no matter what rhymezone says, heh heh.
Stu: Whatever it was, Austrailia needs to export it here!
Cat: "Door hinge" is the ubiquitous poet's rhyme with "orange". I had to push the concept as far as I could... or did I? ;)
MM: I failed spectacularly in Spanish, but I'll take a stab at it: "more ganja", "or launch a"... okay, back to you. ;)
Rick: Two words to make a rhyme is fine no matter what rhymezone says, heh heh.
Stu: Whatever it was, Austrailia needs to export it here!
Cat: "Door hinge" is the ubiquitous poet's rhyme with "orange". I had to push the concept as far as I could... or did I? ;)
Came across this in the ABC Semi-Finals, very, very clever! I liked this a lot.
Before I get off for a good while, great parody. Although, bobpiecheese, you can rhyme with "month" - just not a real word. Have a small child, who just automatically thinks "th" goes after each number, say "oneth" instead of first. That's how little kids do somethimes, overgeneralizing a rule they think they've picked up. (Like putting "-ed" after every past tense verse - so runned, flied, etc.).
Sadly, nothing like this can be done with orange.
Thanks Jeff and Doug. Doug - "month" has no real word rhymes, but I'd argue "months" rhymes with "once". . .
could this work? A nice sweet challenge, Eating an orange.
Ha! That darn orange, frustrating poets for centuries! Very clever collection of near-rhymes; I think "horse syringe" is my favorite. Great take on one of my favorite songs!
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