Runcibl'd Spooner: From Cripples to Kellers to Kings

"...Yo' is my woman..." Porgy intones to 
Gershwin's Bess.
Woe is my yeoman. Medieval farming 
sure's a mess.

     Moral:
Life's quite hard on Catfish Row.
Fiefs...? E'en harder rows to hoe. 

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Blind by May. This year's be unlike 
others' Junes.
Mined by Bley.* Ms. Carla's "borrowed" 
all my tunes.

     * Carla Bley is an US jazz composer

     Moral:
Bedimm'd be days of him who dares
to misappropriate my airs.''

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"Nine o'clock an' all is well."
The town crier.
Ropes le roi...then sits a spell.
The crown tier.

     Moral:
'Twill take a sisal to truss King Faisal.*

     * Who's donn'd a keski featuring 
a twill woven of sisal, perhaps...?