There was a young man of Japan,
Who wrote verse that never would scan.
When they said, "But the thing
Doesn't go with a swing,"
He said, "Yes, but I always like to get as many words
into the last line as I possibly can."
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
A limerick about a young writer of verse
According to the Associated Press, "On this date in 1932, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra recorded 'It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)' for Brunswick Records." The following is an anonymous, simply ridiculous limerick the third and fourth lines of which always remind me of the title of that song:
There was a young man of Japan,
Who wrote verse that never would scan.
When they said, "But the thing
Doesn't go with a swing,"
He said, "Yes, but I always like to get as many words
into the last line as I possibly can."
There was a young man of Japan,
Who wrote verse that never would scan.
When they said, "But the thing
Doesn't go with a swing,"
He said, "Yes, but I always like to get as many words
into the last line as I possibly can."
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