There was a young woman named Bright.
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night!
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This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.
Enough. At first I was like, "Yeah, I love Alphaville!" However, upon further reflection, it occurred to me that I had confused Alphaville with two separate Austin-based bands, Alpha Rev and Storyville.
I'd did check out that album and sure...
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.I'd always assumed the lyrics to this were far obscene :/
Oh, they are. That's a clean version.
There was a young lady called Jean
Who fell in a washing machine
She tumbled around
Till she almost drowned
But she came out remarkably clean
I couldn’t remember the tune to Home on the Range, so I used Piano Man, and that worked.
'Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket' ... well, sort of works.
No idea what that even is, so no wörries, I won't
Doesn't the first line of home on the range have five syllables? Limericks have 8
essentially a limerick
The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine ("There once was a man from Nantucket..."). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.
No it isn't.
Mmmmyeah it essentially is, except for the first line.