Palindromes: A word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward. Like “we panic in a pew” … perfect for a Sunday sermon!
Weird Al, singing like Bob Dylan, performed an entire song whose lyrics are entirely composed of palindromes. It is one of those videos that you want to stop watching but can’t. Creative is one word. Strange is another. But it is all about word “play” which makes it perfect for Fun Friday!
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Rats live on no evil star?
O, stone, be not so!
Race fast, safe car…
Oh, no, Don Ho!
Don did nod
ere heinie here,
dog sees God
and DNA!
If I had a hi-fi,
Silly’d idyll is.
Eye sees eye,
sit, Pa! Sap ’tis
E-noted, civic de tone!
Enola, dogma: I am God alone!
Well, that’s the very worst.
Busted the rhyme scheme in the second quatrain.
A perhaps better version…
Don did nod
ere heinie here,
dog sees God,
yeh, at a Ya-Ta-Hey!
It’s still awful. I have a headache.
And that didn’t help, so here’s my very last infliction of the second quatrain:
Don did nod
ere heinie here;
dog sees God,
“Eres Tu, but sere!”
Going to crawl back into my hole, and pull it in behind me.
Andrew, you made my day.
Thanks, Karen!
Love Weird Al. Thank you for the Friday laugh. Riders in the Sky, the cowboy-trail-song comedy team for decades, performed a brilliant western TV spoof, the Ballad of Palindrome (Rounder Records), with a wonderful Paladin theme song homage, whose hero only spoke in palindromes.
Hannah. What can I say, but that I resonate with today’s fun theme! Thanks Steve:)
Weird Al should be “deified” for that. After all, “Do Geese see God?’
AI ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Not A.I. as in artificial intelligence.
It is Al as in Albert. A. L.
Wow.