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Last week I played Scrabble with Death
I offered a mint for his breath
His subsequent howl
 

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Last week I played Scrabble with Death
I offered a mint for his breath
His subsequent howl
Made me drop my next vowel
 

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Last week I played Scrabble with Death
I offered a mint for his breath
His subsequent howl
Made me drop my next vowel
Then he challenged my use of "Macbeth"!

The travelling sideshow has gone
 

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The travelling sideshow has gone
And with it my girlfriend Yvonne
 

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The travelling sideshow has gone
But a weird man remains on my lawn
He's swallowing fire

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The travelling sideshow has gone
And with it my girlfriend Yvonne
 

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The travelling sideshow has gone
But a weird man remains on my lawn
He's swallowing fire
While neighbors admire

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The travelling sideshow has gone
And with it my girlfriend Yvonne
What she'll earn every night
 

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The traveling sideshow has gone
but a weird man remains on my lawn
He's swallowing fire
While neighbors admire,
but all I can muster is, "Yawn"

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The traveling sideshow has gone
and with it, my girlfriend Yvonne
What she'll earn every night
In the all-girl mud fight
 

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The traveling sideshow has gone
but a weird man remains on my lawn
He's swallowing fire
While neighbors admire,
but all I can muster is, "Yawn"

Now, that is a splendid finish.

2
The traveling sideshow has gone
and with it, my girlfriend Yvonne
What she'll earn every night
In the all-girl mud fight
with Tony Orlando and Dawn...

...would feed Liechtenstein for a week
 

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. . . Would feed Liechtenstein for a week
If she hadn't a soft-hearted streak
 

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. . . Would feed Liechtenstein for a week
If she hadn't a soft-hearted streak
So it's cat food she'll buy
 

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. . . Would feed Liechtenstein for a week
If she hadn't a soft-hearted streak
So it's cat food she'll buy
And some bargain potpie
 

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Limerick flirts with politics

. . . Would feed Liechtenstein for a week
If she hadn't a soft-hearted streak
So it's cat food she'll buy
And some bargain potpie
and donate all the rest to the Geek.

Here's one for George W. Bush
 

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Here's one for George W. Bush
Whose brain has softened to mush
All our foreign friends say
They're thankful the way
 

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Here's one for George W. Bush
Whose brain has softened to mush
All our foreign friends say
They're thankful the way
He's kept all the Yanks off the Dole*

*: "on the dole" = on welfare; and yes, I know it doesn't rhyme. Can I call it an assonance? Or does the Dole reference just not work?

I robbed Peter just to pay Paul
 

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poetinahat said:
Here's one for George W. Bush
Whose brain has softened to mush
All our foreign friends say
They're thankful the way
He's kept all the Yanks off the Dole*

*: "on the dole" = on welfare; and yes, I know it doesn't rhyme. Can I call it an assonance? Or does the Dole reference just not work?
*It doesn't work for me: besides the rhyme issue, many Yanks are on the dole.

Maybe "He captured Saddam's ugly tush."

I robbed Peter just to pay Paul
And then to the shock of us all
Peter called the police
 

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I robbed Peter just to pay Paul
And then to the shock of us all
Peter called the police
And I took off for Greece
 

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I robbed Peter just to pay Paul
And then to the shock of us all
Peter called the police
And I took off for Greece,
I'm still there and having a ball!

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They were digging up my street today
 

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*It doesn't work for me: besides the rhyme issue, many Yanks are on the dole.

Maybe "He captured Saddam's ugly tush."

Oh, well, throw it away. They can't all be gems.
 

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They were digging up my street today
which disrupted my roll in the hay
 

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They were digging up my street today
which disrupted my roll in the hay
Then my breakfast was cold