MPR 2002 Limerick Contest Submissions Set 25

There was a composer named Weber
Who was tired from incessant labor
He went to the Fair
'Twas a breath of fresh air
He returned to his music with savor.

Ardis Lillehaug, Sioux Falls, SD

Princess Kay and Puccini cried "Eeps!
Our new cat, she gives us the creeps!
We've decided (pro forma)
She'll be called 'Nessun Dorma'
'Cause while she's awake, no one sleeps."

John Kudlaty, St. Paul, MN

If Ludvig von Beethoven
Had appendices cloven,
Surely, shedding his wiglet,
He'd be oinking with a piglet
And with Raven, gone rovin'.

Mary Ellen Halverson, Minneapolis, MN

When Beethoven wrote number nine
He thought it exceedingly fine
But it lasted so long
By the pentultimate song
For sleep the audience did pine.

Ardis Lillehaug, Sioux Falls, SD

In the swine barn J.S. Bach felt quite hammy.
By the sheep pens his mood changed to rammy.
He said to his Anna,
"Liebchen, I wanna
drink well-tempered cold beer with you, Lamby."

Molly Miron, Solway, MN

A fugue-ist of good German stock
Rejected all musical schlock.
He went to the fair
And let down his hair,
And chortled, "I take it all Bach!"

Mike Sherer, Minneapolis, MN

I went to the fair with young Grainger
Who put each fair food in a manger
Then ate every one
Which put him, my son,
In gastrointestinal danger.

Kris Henderson, Edina, MN

John Adams was first on the scene.
His companions were almost as keen.
He said, "For my sake
"We each have to take
"A short ride in each fast machine."

Louise Hale, Saint Cloud, MN

Tchaikovsky bought a sugar plum
And fairy nuts, and soaked in rum,
And began to Russian dance,
And meanwhile lost his pants,
And his crackers were soon but crumbs.

George Kittell, Richfield, MN

Schoenberg decided to go
To the State Fair. Why? I don't know.
He exclaimed with a frown
While turned upside-down,
"This Ferris wheel's inverted my tone row!"

Mark Zwolinski, Avon, MN