Lyrics Limerick Style - Fiddler's Green

Limerick Style

There was a pretty young lady, pretty lady named Bright
My God she travelled so much faster, so much faster than light
And when she set out one day
In a relative way
Was gone and came back, and came back the previous night
There was a spunky young man, a brave fellow from Lyme
My God he married three wives, oh three wives at a time
When asked «why a third?»
He replied «one's absurd!
And bigamy, sir, is a terrible crime!»
Two wives at a time?
What a terrible crime!
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Down to Limerick Town, going round and round
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Where you’ll find a rhyme from another time
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Do the limerick style from the Emerald Isle
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Five lines in your hand
Send you round the bend
There was a fearless young lady, fearless lady from Riga
And she smiled as she rode, as she rode on a tiger
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside
And a fairly broad smile on the face of the tiger
There was a clever young canner, exceedingly canny
And one morning he remarked, he remarked to his granny
A canner can can
Anything that he can
But a canner can’t can a can.
Can he?
Exceedingly canny
He remarked to his granny:
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Down to Limerick City, where the words are gritty
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Where you’ll find a rhyme from another time
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Do the limerick style from the Emerald Isle
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Five lines in your hand
Send you round the bend
«What's a limerick, mother?»
«It's a form of verse», said brother
«In which lines one and two
Rhyme with five when it’s through
And three and four rhyme with each other»
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Down to Limerick Town, going round and round
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Down to Limerick City, where the words are gritty
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Do the limerick style from the Emerald Isle
Come with me — We’ll follow you!
Send you round the bend