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Song Parodies -> "A (Concise) Meditation on Flirtation"
Original Song Title:
"Sweet Betsy From Pike (abbreviated)"
Original Performer:
Traditional
Parody Song Title:
"A (Concise) Meditation on Flirtation"
Parody Written by:
Stan Hall
The Lyrics
Yeah, yeah, I realize that the OS is a folk ballad that typically tells its tale in at least a dozen more verses than are here. For this quickie, tho', I'm borrowing tune only, not structure. The rhymes I originally concocted (in a very slightly different form) some years ago within the context of an extended cyberepistolary discourse -- what the Hemingway-ites out there would snoresomely settle for terming an email exchange -- conducted for fun entirely in such doggerel. It occurred to me then, and again during this morning's commute, that these particular lines could be sung reasonably non-distortively to Sweet Betsy's tune, so for what they're worth, I offer'em here. (As-is; since the pair says all I meant to say on the topic, adding stanzas merely to mimic the OS structure or to indulge an oft-exhibited passion for "catalog songs" seemed pointless.)
“A (Concise) Meditation on Flirtation”
If one beckon’s brassy, one coy and demure
what the first one may tempt, number two can secure;
A function inversely,
math’matics says, tersely,
Links the push of flirtation to the pull of its lure.
Still, as old Lewis Carroll had more than one trick
-- with language and logic was equally slick --
more ratios than one
‘neath Horatio’s sun
can develop relations between Jane and Dick.
If one beckon’s brassy, one coy and demure
what the first one may tempt, number two can secure;
A function inversely,
math’matics says, tersely,
Links the push of flirtation to the pull of its lure.
Still, as old Lewis Carroll had more than one trick
-- with language and logic was equally slick --
more ratios than one
‘neath Horatio’s sun
can develop relations between Jane and Dick.
© Stan Hall Geez -- the prefatory comments outstretch the %*&*$* _song_! :-)
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Short and sweet take on "Sweet."
don't know the OS but it read beautifully as prose
555 Sir, from this HemingWay-ista!
Well done tricky quicky...Not too many of us have done this old folk tune...five, now...I tackled it a couple years ago
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