Fought a war for It'ly once,
And I won
So I took a break to de-STRESS in Roma
I met many cuties there,
Beauties there
Then decided I should assESS Cremona
Such a pretty town
All around,
But once I unwound, I was Venice-bound,
There I found
What I'd hoped would be
My… my… my… my…
wife – OOH!
There I saw Desdemona...

Daughter of a guy I knew
Through and through,
Yet, I really have to conFESS-demona
Though she once was all-too-young
Now my tongue
Drooled at how she filled out her DRESS-demona
Such a lovely girl,
Rocked my world,
Left me in a whirl with her raven curls,
Such a pearl!
And her eyes they were
Like… like… like… like…
Like... JEWELS!
The lovely Desdemona...

I loved her and she loved me,
But daddy
Was the type who thought he knew BEST-demona
If he'd known we planned to wed,
Share a bed,
We knew it would cause him diSTRESS-demona
Thinks an Af-ri-can
Ain't the man
For his little one, and he would be pissed,
He'd insist
Marriage plans were un-
Wise… wise… wise… wise…
Wise… (Boo!)
But I loved Desdemona!

So we had to sneak away
Far away
Though a love like ours was no SIN-demona
We knew once he'd found we'd wed
He'd see red
So we spent our honeymoon IN Verona
Planning what we'd say
To convey
That we'd run away for his daughter pure
Had allure
That ensnared the Moor
Guy... uy... uy... uy...
Guy WHO?
The guy for Desdemona!

But alas, through spies and scouts
He'd found out
All about our marital TIES-demona
'Ere I could confess that I'd
Won my bride
I'd been snitched by some wise GUYS-demona
So we had to swear
Our affair
Was all on the square -- she'd not been coerced
(And what's worse
Had to speak in verse --
Ai-yi-yi-yi-
Yi... WHEW!
Who speaks in RHYME-demona?)