This is a song that I composed for a competition for one-minute songs for tenor and piano. I thought it would be fun to set a limerick since I have never set one before. The limerick is traditional, but I have written additional lyrics. (It should be noted that I'm a baritone, so some of this is out of my comfortable range - this is just a demo!)
Lyrics:
There was an old man of Peru
Who dreamt he was eating a shoe.
He awoke in the night
With a terrible fright
And found it was perfectly true.
Yes, he found it was perfectly true.
If you ate a shoe do you know what you'd do?
Would you let it pass through or try real hard to spew?
Or maybe you are one of very few who
Don't rue or eschew eating shoes in a stew.
Old man of Peru, just what kind of man were you?
There was an old man of Peru
Who dreamt he was eating a shoe.
He awoke in the night
With a terrible fright
And found it was perfectly true.
Yes, he found it was perfectly true.
Old man of Peru, just what kind of man were you?
Lyrics:
There was an old man of Peru
Who dreamt he was eating a shoe.
He awoke in the night
With a terrible fright
And found it was perfectly true.
Yes, he found it was perfectly true.
If you ate a shoe do you know what you'd do?
Would you let it pass through or try real hard to spew?
Or maybe you are one of very few who
Don't rue or eschew eating shoes in a stew.
Old man of Peru, just what kind of man were you?
There was an old man of Peru
Who dreamt he was eating a shoe.
He awoke in the night
With a terrible fright
And found it was perfectly true.
Yes, he found it was perfectly true.
Old man of Peru, just what kind of man were you?
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