Acronyms (filk)

[Caius Marcius <coriolan_cmc@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52476

Acronyms 
 
To the tune of Agony, from Sondheim's musical Into the Woods

Hear a MIDI at:

http://www.broadwaymidi.com/shows/into_the_woods.html

Written while kicking back a few Butterbeers on Initial Alley

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Dedicated to Elkins and Tabouli 

Should I DESIST them, or wish them SUCCESS?
Or think them SINISTER?
Are they a CIST 'em, an ANTITHESIS 
Of GANG WARS and BABEMEISTERS?
Acronyms! On HP4GU,
THE FIRST-MEMORY FRIEND
Keeps the LANDLUBBERS SUAVE as the DEW.

The WINNING COUPLE, SNAP at CUPID'S QUAFFLE,
LAMBASTING their LIDS
POOR BABY NAPTIME, her SWAN SONG she must MIME
If SUPPRESSED by SIDS A-a-a-a-a-a-ah..
Acronyms! For a MARATHON SWIM,
FIASCO I now know's BAD NEWS
If SHARK ATTACK with VIM

Acronyms! Who can keep them all straight?
What's FAT CHANCE AT BALL
Or GILBERT or GOLFBALL,
HELP AND LACERATE?

NEW LABOUR-CONSERVATIVE, SNAPECLIFF, ASTONISHED, MALEVOLENCE,
With NUANCE, BLAMELESS, as SAD as they're SHAMEFUL,
SING with HEAD IN SAND?

For your AFRICAN HIPPIES, CRAB CUSTARD
Have IGNORED,
SCRABBLE BOARD
Of CHIMPANZEE is
If the RATS BE DISEASES


Then as SIRIUS BLACK inside THE SHRIEKING SHACK
FLARES at LOLLIPOPS, 
Do I LUV SAILING OPS!, 'A-a-a-a-a-a-ah.'

Acronyms!
LOONIEST!
WHILST!
It's like MUDPIE for NINE.
Always PACMAN behind--
Always SPACEMAN below--
Or UGANDA with PINE.

Acronyms, I sang this to my wife
She said, DUDE GET A LIFE
.

   -	CMC

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P.S. I took the liberty of paraphrasing the final acronym, DARRIN, 
GET A LIFE DUDE 

(Decoding Anagram Riddle Requires Imagination, Never-ending Gumption, 
and Enormous Tankards of Amber Lager Imbibed. Friends and Enemies, 
Don't Underestimate Darrin's Eagerness)