Calico Canturquil
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Lyrics and Refrain: Master John Inchingham Music for Verses: Master Alexander de Seaton |
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When hey diddle diddle, clawed the cat on the fiddle, Brother Beaver played the bones. The Bygolly Dog twanged, Otter sang refrain, In that Canturquil cat’s windmill home. |
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Upon the bonny banks of the perilous Pilchard Sea, There grew an ancient orchard of pale-red apple trees. At the core of this old grove stood a wobbly windmill. On the gears in the middle, Sat a cat with a fiddle, Called Calico Canturquil. A beaver left the Abby of St. Bohdran’s Blessed Beasts, To seek that minstrel moggy, Bard of Catastrophe; Swam past nasty shad-fish; gnawed through gnarled apple boughs; To the Windmill of Skew, Where the tunecat mewed, “Hey nonny nonny, holy cow!” A dog of many moons jumped on a bygolly brigantine. He sailed the sibilant Sea of Sinister Sardines; Debarked in that garden of Eden’s famous fruit; Then he strummed his guitar, And he laughed, “Har har! Hey cat, can I join your group?” An errant otter joined the song of that mad menagerie. “Long the shore, the four wasailed along, till Calico got hung-ery. That cat’s crew said seafood would come to them who croon . . . Though their meal-plan was daring, When they sang to the herring, All the fish swam away from the tune. |
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