These 3 ladies are Willow's prompt for the week. Enlarge the picture and you can see they are armed with skates!
You can see from my photograph alongside that I do not smile easy! So blame Herr Waldteufel and the cold weather for encouraging me to compose this pastiche. The fall-out is that my husband Caddoc has learned to play the tune on his wretched saxophone. Which would be fine if I could skate!
"Les Patineurs" (Emile Waldteufel, 1882)
(Sing Along to the music.
Wait for the intro . . . Now, after me . . One, Two, THREE!)
Skating on snow.
Ever so slow.
Skates catch in skirts
and then down.You. Go!
Down on your ar**
Oh, what a farce
Might as well try to
Skate. On. Grass
Where did you/all get those/funny hats/funny hats?
Aren't you a/trio of/silly prats/silly prats?
O.K., lets/see three ice/acrobats/acrobats
skating like/ar-ice-to/CRATS/ -to CRATS!
Why don't you/look for the/frozen stuff/frozen stuff?
Dare you to/swish and spin/in the buff/in the buff.
I'll heat some/soup when you've/had enough/had enough.
Don't look so/sour girls, don't/TAKE/the HUFF!
Get your skates on, then, girls
Try some figures and whirls
Awesome toe-loops and twirls
Or some lifting and hurls.
You're a joy to behold,
but you look very cold.
Are you much too old
Undersold
Over bowled
Growing mould
'bout to fold
So . . I'm . . . told
Waldteufel's Waltz
danced without faultz!
Three perfect "tens"
when the music haltz
Mag Forty Nine
really was fine.
God Bless you Willow,
and yours, and mine!
Get your skates on, then, girls
Try some figures and whirls
Awesome toe-loops and twirls
Or some lifting and hurls.
You're a joy to behold,
but you look very cold.
Are you much too old
Undersold
Over bowled
Growing mould
'bout to fold
So . . I'm . . . told
Waldteufel's Waltz
danced without faultz!
Three perfect "tens"
when the music haltz
Mag Forty Nine
really was fine.
God Bless you Willow,
and yours, and mine!