Old soul with the ambition at a young age to work for a poet factory. Seeking to supplement my income and hopefully provide reprieve to the masses for life's slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and with music and poetry to oppress them.
The most erroneous mistakes truly begin
With a slip of the tongue or a slip of the pen
A comma out of place, an accent to thin
Makes you a saint ridden with sin
Just the wrong word in the wrong ear
Deciphered astray can make you pay dear
A quotation unquoted a period missed
Makes you culprit or a cheek to be kissed
Too much alliteration to little rhyme
You're a policeman on trial explaining your crime
Mispronunciation due to a lisp
Is mouthed by a babe with enunciation to crisp
The littlest word only slightly misspelled
You're on the highway to heaven with a U-turn to hell
French is fantastic it goes great with wine
Greek is real classic but too hard to rhyme
A fast talking Jap is hard to understand
Yet the yen's a commodity that's lost some demand
The Germans put out Mercedes-Benz
The language too gutteral the car just a trend
Someone else's diction mixed with some else's style
Will give you a mere metre that takes you many a mile
(chorus)
I put my case to rest
English is the best
It is no mortal sin
Be it the tongue or the pen
To make a little slip
But here's a thoughtful tip
THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK
The most erroneous mistakes truly begin
With a slip of the tongue or a slip of the pen
A comma out of place, an accent to thin
Makes you a saint ridden with sin
Just the wrong word in the wrong ear
Deciphered astray can make you pay dear
A quotation unquoted a period missed
Makes you culprit or a cheek to be kissed
Too much alliteration to little rhyme
You're a policeman on trial explaining your crime
Mispronunciation due to a lisp
Is mouthed by a babe with enunciation to crisp
The littlest word only slightly misspelled
You're on the highway to heaven with a U-turn to hell
French is fantastic it goes great with wine
Greek is real classic but too hard to rhyme
A fast talking Jap is hard to understand
Yet the yen's a commodity that's lost some demand
The Germans put out Mercedes-Benz
The language too gutteral the car just a trend
Someone else's diction mixed with some else's style
Will give you a mere metre that takes you many a mile
(chorus)
I put my case to rest
English is the best
It is no mortal sin
Be it the tongue or the pen
To make a little slip
But here's a thoughtful tip
THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK
The most erroneous mistakes truly begin
With a slip of the tongue or a slip of the pen
A comma out of place, an accent to thin
Makes you a saint ridden with sin
Just the wrong word in the wrong ear
Deciphered astray can make you pay dear
A quotation unquoted a period missed
Makes you culprit or a cheek to be kissed
Too much alliteration to little rhyme
You're a policeman on trial explaining your crime
Mispronunciation due to a lisp
Is mouthed by a babe with enunciation to crisp
The littlest word only slightly misspelled
You're on the highway to heaven with a U-turn to hell
French is fantastic it goes great with wine
Greek is real classic but too hard to rhyme
A fast talking Jap is hard to understand
Yet the yen's a commodity that's lost some demand
The Germans put out Mercedes-Benz
The language too gutteral the car just a trend
Someone else's diction mixed with some else's style
Will give you a mere metre that takes you many a mile
(chorus)
I put my case to rest
English is the best
It is no mortal sin
Be it the tongue or the pen
To make a little slip
But here's a thoughtful tip
THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK
Old soul with the ambition at a young age to work for a poet factory. Seeking to supplement my income and hopefully provide reprieve to the masses for life's slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and with music and poetry to oppress them.
Honors English High School and college.
The culprit guilty of writing rhyming ditties on the back of the bathroom stalls 1980's
Norton Anthology of Poetry 1996
You tell me!? (Got a song that ain't got no melody?)