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John E Simpson's avatar

I didn't know that limerick about the kid from Madras so I looked it up. It's pretty good and -- as such things go -- pretty tame (although I bet explosively funny to a 12-year-old boy). But while I was at the site where I found it, I also encountered these song lyrics. You could probably use them to get an audience stomping their feet (when they weren't laughing) and singing along... (the Druids/woods rhyme bothers me but that's only because I'm reading it silently to myself):

Gimmie That Old Time Religion

We will follow Zarathustra,

Zarathustra like we use to,

I'm a Zarathustra booster,

And he's good enough for me!

We will worship like the Druids,

Dancing naked in the woods,

Drinking strange fermented fluids,

And it's good enough for me!

(chorus)

(chorus)

In the church of Aphrodite,

The priestess wears a see-through nightie,

She's a mighty righteous sightie,

And she's good enough for me!

(chorus)

CHORUS:

Give me that old time religion,

Give me that old time religion,

Give me that old time religion,

'Cause it's good enough for me!

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Melissa's avatar

I laughed about the lost bet that they would be no one under 50 at your concert. My husband, daughter and I attended the 50th anniversary concert for the Washington National Opera when she was 18 and her father was 68. She was indeed almost the only one there under 50 years old. When Domingo (then the director of the Opera) made a joke about everyone there coming to the 100th anniversary concert I realized she could be there- she'd be the same age as her father was that day.

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