This was three lines longer until I noticed the line limit and had to forcibly excise the excess. It never made much sense, but it made more sense at 19 lines.
MUSIC HISTORY
A crowd can be deluded, even mad,
embracing every silly, passing fad.
One time, for example, my own dad
made a sort of bagpipe out of shad,
and though it smelled and sounded rather bad
(and dad looked quite ridiculous in plaid)
in my hometown his fishy bagpipe had
a year or two of making people glad
before they said, "You really cannot add
a fish to bagpipes. What's next? Oboe scad?"
The world's first violin was whiny, sad.
It won Gold in the Noise Olympiad.
Then to the rescue came Sir Galahad,
a man named Stradivarius. (Michael? Vlad?
No, Antonio). He fussed a tad,
until it sounded perfect, like a Strad!
Last edited by Roger Slater; 11-19-2009 at 01:04 PM.
Reason: correcting meter error in L12 that John pointed out
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