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Informal Grae
Graeme Sandford
United Kingdom, HAMPSHIRE, Totton

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Help Me, Rondeau - Alien's #13

Help Me, Rondeau (best spoken or sung to the tune of The Beach Boys' California Girls)

Not by Brian Wilson, May 1965 - and not featured on the 1966 Beach Boys, Poet Sounds album.

 


A surfin' dude, a sandy beach;

I wax my board, new tricks to teach.

I hang my five, and maybe ten

And then I do it all again:

For me the girls are out of reach

 

Those pretty girls, each one a peach

A place for them, my little niche,

I chase the waves, and them, in vain

- A surfin' dude?

 

The West-Coast girls, don't want a leech;

They say my style's too nouveau riche.

But, It's their loss, and no-ones gain,

Those deuce-coupe types drive me insane:

For Girls like that don't go with geeks

But surfin' dudes.

 


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Thula7 Comment by: Thula7 Online- 2008-04-09 10:55
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Really great. Poetry seems to come so easily to everyone else. I love the theme of this and the way it flows. You have a perfect rondeau here, and probably a new song.
alien Comment by: alien - 2008-04-08 08:51
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I really love this. You know - you're the best at reading and translating my 'rules' - I mean, you actually READ them and get it right.

Yeah - this. Funny but sad and totally brilliant.

I'd like to see the last line slightly altered to 'but surfin' dudes' as it's okay to slightly alter the refrain (as long as it's only slightly) but I think it would make more sense then.

Great stuff! hahahahaha. I love it :)
champagne Comment by: champagne Online- 2008-04-07 11:08
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I'm bettin' the Wilson boys would wrap this in a beachy tune and churn out another hit. Bravo... Rondeau is a form that never goes out of style, Rondeau you caught my eye, played pretty for another guy. Help me Rondeau, help me rhyme it right from the staaaaaart...
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