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Saturday, July 14, 2018

A Little Night Porter or Was It Just One of Those Things? Abecedarially Arranged Arrays of Alternative A Sections in Rhyme

(Ignoring all but the opening eight bars of Cole Porter's AABA song form "Just One of Those Things," shift moods from indicative to interrogative. Then ask the musical question -- indeed, ask a whole slough of 'em -- using any or all of a baker's dozen of the alternate A sections arrayed below.) 

(A/B)    Was it 
just one of those things?
Just one of those almond rings?
One "boo-boo”’d blues of baritone Bing's?*
just one of those things? 
     * Crooner Crosby

(C/D)    Was it 
just one of those things?
Just one of those static clings? 
One of Sinatra’s "ring-a-ding-ding"s? 
Just one of those things?

(E/F)    Was it 
just one of those things?
Just one of Stowe's evenings,*
One of those fibs that frickin' Drumpf flings?
Just some of those things.
    * Moonlight in Vermont

(G/H)   Was it 
just some of those things? 
Just one of Joe's* GOP swings? 
One of those hankies "Hawkins Falls"** wrings? 
Just one of those things. 
      * The Plumber Guy  
      ** The vintage TV soap opera

(I/J)    Was it
just some of those things?
Just one I like -- Gipsy Kings --
one who froze juleps 'n' Singapore Slings: 
"Jus' summa doze t'ings"?

(K/L)    Was it 
just one of those things? 
Just one which Kabibble (Ish) swings?*
One of those lays lauding lemonade springs?**
Just one of those things? 
      * Ish Kabbible was a cornet player with Kay Kyser's band 
      ** The Big Rock Candy Mountain

(M/N)   Was it 
just some of those things?
Just one of Mars’s merciless Mings? 
One of those neon nights of Beijing's? 
Just one of those things? 

(O/P)   Was it 
just one of those things?
Just one of O's (Oprah's) blings? 
One of Paterno's pornography rings? 
Just one of those things?

(Q/R)     Was it 
just one of those things? 
Just one of those queer-quizzin' stings?*
One of those riffs -- "It don't mean a thing"s?** 
Just one of those things? 
       * The Stonewall Inn  
      ** Duke Ellington

(S/T)    Was it 
just one of those things? 
Just one of those songs Sting sings? 
One of those tangs like Buffalo wings? 
Just some of those things?

(U/V)   Was it
just one of those things?
Just uno...dos...underlings?
One of those peerless portrayals of Ving's?**
Just one of those things? 
      ** Cf Ving Rhames.

(W/X)   Was it 
just one of those things?
Just one of those warm'd wax'd wings?*
One of those Xs censorship brings? 
Just one of those things? 
      * The fatal flight of Icarus.

(Y/Z)     Was it
just one of those things?
just one of Ma's (Yoyo's) strings? 
One of those songs with "Zing...zizzy...zing..."s?*
Just oneof those things? 
      * "Italian Street Song" from Naughty Marietta.

     Yes, it was great fun...but was it 
just one of those things? 

"Row, row, row your boat..." 'Merrily' Varia: A Nonsense Alphabet

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
Airily, airily, airily, airily. Life’s not academe. 
Berraly, Berraly, Berraly, Berraly. Life backs Yogi's team.
Charily, charily, charily, charily. Life’s a chancy scheme.
Dairyly, dairyly, dairyly, dairyly. Life’s like clotted cream.
Errorly, errorly, errorly, errorly. Life’s a fool’s gold seam. 
Farrahly, Farrahly, Farrahly, Farrahly. Life’s a Fawcett theme.
Garishly, garishly, garishly, garishly. Life’s a color scheme.
Hairily, hairily, hairily, hairily. Life’s a hirsute meme.
“I’m barely...,” “I’m barely…,” “I’m barely…,” “I’m barely…” Life? Adrift midstream. 
Jaredly, Jaredly, Jaredly, Jaredly. Life will Kushner ream.  
Karefully, karefully, karefully, karefully. Life misspells, ‘twould seem. 
Larryly, Larryly, Larryly, Larryly. Life’s with Fines a-teem.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life’s but Buddha’s dream.
Narrowly, narrowly, narrowly, narrowly. Life’s a gutter seam.
Oily, oily, oily, oily. Life is shaving cream. 
Perilly, perilly, perilly, perilly. Life’s a risk extreme. 
Quarrelly, quarrelly, quarrelly, quarrelly. Life's a combat team.
Rarely, rarely, rarely, rarely. Life don't often gleam.
Scarily, scarily, scarily, scarily: life’s a bloody scream.
Taraly, Taraly, Taraly, Taraly. Life's "Gone With..." passim.
Unnecessarily, unnecessarily. Life’s a Drumpf regime.
“Very unfairly,” “Very unfairly.” Life treats Donald’s team.
Warily, warily, warily, warily. Life's a balance beam.
X-ily, Y-ily, Z-ily: Easily, life is weird, I'd deem.

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