domingo, 14 de mayo de 2017

WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK

This is a parody of Waltzing Matilda in which everything is kind of... expanded. The lyrics are obviously unsingable. But still the style exercise is exhilarating!

Once, an itinerant worker in a positive emotional state camped by a body of stagnant freshwater
under the shade of a Eucalyptus coolabah,
and he sang as he watched and waited until his teawater reached the temperature of 100 ºC:
"You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me...
And he sang as he watched and waited until his teawater reached the temperature of 100 ºC:
"You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

Down came a young Ovis aries orientalis to drink at the stagnant freshwater,
up jumped the itinerant worker and seized it with elation;
and he sang as he stuffed that Ovis aries orientalis inside his knapsack:
"You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me...
and he sang as he stuffed that Ovis aries orientalis inside his knapsack:
"You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

Up rode the wealthy landowner, mounted upon the back of his purebred Equus ferus caballus;
down came the military personnel... one, two, three!
"Where's that lively young Ovis aries orientalis you've got inside your knapsack?
You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me...
"Where's that lively young Ovis aries orientalis you've got inside your knapsack?
You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

Up jumped the itinerant worker and sprang into the stagnant freshwater:
"You shall never seize me while I'm alive!" said he...
And the spirit of him, after he drowned, can be heard as one passes by that stagnant freshwater:
"You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."

WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
WANDERING WITH A BAG CALLED MATILDA ON MY BACK,
You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me...
And the spirit of him, after he drowned, can be heard as one passes by that stagnant freshwater:
"You'll come wandering in this bag called Matilda with me."




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