Description
Tune for an Ill-Tempered Clavichord
For soprano and piano
Duration: 2′
Premiered in 1995 by Michelle Byrd Gerlach at Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church, Naples, FL in 1995
Text – Based on a poem by Ogden Nash:
Oh, once there lived in Kankakee
A handy dandy Yankakee,
Alone and lean and lankakee
Cantankakerous Yankakee.
He slept without a blankaket
And whiskikey how he drankaket.
This rough and ready Yankakee,
The bachelor of Kankakee.
He never used a hankakee.
He jeered at hanky-pankakee (Wooh!)
Indeed to give a frank account,
He didn’t have a bank account.
And yet at times he hankakered
In marriage to be anchachored.
When celibacy rankakles,
One dreams of pretty ankles.
He took a trip to Waikiki
And wooed a girl named Psycheche,
And now this rugged Yankakee,
‘S’a married man in Kankakee.
Good night dear friends,
And thankakee.
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