Remember my post about the Three Little Pigs? One played pipes, the others danced jigs? Let's call that my excuse, shall we? This was composed to amuse Camilla Mortensen. With apologies in advance to Guntis Šmidchens and Daniel Wojcik. Okay, hold onto your copies of Aarne-Thompson. A-one and a-two...
Tale-type indexin' like a mad, mad fiend,
Perrault's actin' Grimm and Richard Burton plays mean.
Students only know that whack Disney crap,
But this is my slant-rhymed Märchen rap.
Um. Yeah. It's a folklorist thing, you wouldn't understand. Honestly, I'm not sure I do, either...
In other news, this l'il ditty has the dubious distinction of being the first Facebook comment to graduate to Inkville blog entry status, Joseph Campbell help us.
Yeah, I like to think that anybody who would apply his psychological theories to Star Wars wouldn't mind them extrapolated to hip hop verse. Maybe it's time to compose a follow-up?
Posted by: Aaron Ragan-Fore | February 16, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Nicely written! And Joseph Campbell might be down with it ... he was a pretty hip dude :D
Posted by: Sasha A. Rae | February 15, 2010 at 11:06 PM