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Song Parodies -> "Old Blends"

Original Song Title:

"Old Friends/Bookends Theme"

Original Performer:

Simon & Garfunkel

Parody Song Title:

"Old Blends"

Parody Written by:

Stan Hall

The Lyrics

"Old blends"

Old blends, old blends,
no year-mark clenches like bookends.
Each new grape year’s solera pass
so musts compound, so
become prized dews:
thus the old blends.

Old blends … hinting of Spain’s sun, such gold blends
don’t deserve a toper’s throat, keeping some rum-bum wet.
Their brown hues are pretty, sniffed they do please,
mettled, robust growing older are the old blends.

Can you imagine? Thus years laid away,
there in the dark and quiet they
will barrels exchange ’til they’re heavenly.

Old blends, glimmering lushly like flame years
later when shared. Friends exclaim “Cheers!”

- - - - (musical interlude, segues into "Bookends" theme) - - - -

Time it is to end this rhyme, it is. It is
a time when to commence
quitting this commonsense is.

On to go I can see
is an ill-chosen path.
That would be dim of me --
It’s time I left you.
© Stan Hall ... Some liberty, really just minor stretches/omissions I'm willing to call "poetic license," I've taken in re solera winemaking to lessen any liberty taken with the rhyme & rythm S&G's lovely OS. :-)

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John Barry - March 11, 2008 - Report this comment
I love odes to the grape.
alvin - March 11, 2008 - Report this comment
a very romantic piece here...squeezed all ya could out of it...liked the way you ended it
littleVineCakes - March 11, 2008 - Report this comment
555 for the Vine DeVine !
AFW - March 11, 2008 - Report this comment
They say, old friends are like wine, they improve with time...but I think that depends on how much time the judge gives 'em...fine job, here

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