MPR 2002 Limerick Contest Submissions Set 29

Van Morrison gave the State Fair a whirl.
He got a malt with a special swirl.
He thanked a Brown Swiss
Saying "This malt's udder bliss
And you are my brown-eyed girl."

Larry Goehring, Burnsville, MN

Heading souht from Machinery Hill
Sibelius sought a new thrill
When at Judson and Nelson
He Soaked up some Eichten
Whose jokes left him feeling quite.... ill

Eric Hayes, Minneapolis, MN

Mating a Muse with a Fairy

Composers and fairgrounds and rhyming
Have tortured all reason and timing
The challange , I fear
Is the "silk purse" and "sow's ear"
A pair never meant for combining!

Tom Larsen, St. Paul, MN

A common composer named Aaron
Was bitter his stomach was barren
A fan of Fair fare,
One heard him declare:
My cheese curds, ain't no way I'm sharin'

Chris Boone, St. Paul, MN

Ludwig van Beeth'ven of Bonn
Had to drink his dark beer on the ron;
And the reason for thist
Is that he had a tryst
In St.Paul, the State Fair, Midway on.

Steve Rohde, Milwaukee, WI

When he was a boy, Johann saw our State Fair
And he waxed so melodic over everything there,
That his parents, paying heed to
his music, agreed to
Bring Johann Sebastian - Bach the next year!

Dan Fondell, Dawson, MN

To our Fair ventured Franz Josef Hayden
In search of some fun things to ride on.
Alas the carousel
Left him feeling not well
And he said "I think I'd best lie down.

Erika Gerber, Otsego, MN

Have you seen Herr Franz Josef Hayden?
Me thinks that with Erik he's hidin'.
The bleet of a sheep
Got them in too deep.
And now by Nick's rules they're abidin'.

Erika Gerber, Otsego, MN

At the Fair

There was a composer named Liszt
Who exclaimed, at the fair, "What I've missed!
Great food on a stück,
An etude by Glück,
There's no way that I can resist!"

Nancy Reed, Bovey, MN

Brahms Lullaby

Astonished as the crowds shuffled by
Dining on their batter-laden walleye
Johannes Brahms thought their yapping
Would soon turn to napping
So he penned his sweet lullaby.

Thomas Lovett, Stillwater, MN