Write a Song to Cathy & Marcy Tracks

There's a budding musician deep down inside – bring out your creativity and write a song! Make up your own limericks to these tracks. If you need help, listen to "The Limerick Song" on "Scat Like That"!

We would love to hear your song. Send us some fan mail and share your lyrics with us!

Do you know what a limerick is? It's a five line poem. The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme and so do the third and fourth. The first, third, and fifth have the same verbal rhythm (meter) and length, and so do the second and fourth. This song includes some great ones, and will encourage kids to make up their own. So, listen to our limerick song, then you can play the other version, where Cathy sings the chorus, but you sing your OWN limericks.

THE LIMERICK SONG
copyright 2005 Cathy Fink, 2 Spoons Music, ASCAP

Chorus:
Oh, the world goes round and round and round
And strange things every day are found
There are times when jokes are rhymes
And your funnybone sticks to a limerick

There was a young lady named Bright
Who traveled much faster than light
She started one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night

There was an old man from Heath
Who sat on his set of false teeth
Said he, with a start
"Well bless my heart
I've bitten myself underneath"

There's a curious fellow named Ty
Who was baked by mistake in a pie
To the household¹s disgust
He emerged through the crust
And exclaimed with a yawn, 'Where am I?'

There was an old lady from Flynn
Who grew so exceedingly thin
That when she essayed to drink lemonade
She slid down the straw and fell in

There was a nice woman named Anne
Whose limericks never would scan
When told this was so,
She said, "Yes, I know, but I always try to get as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."