Fun with Lyrics

Led by Laurie Gage, DVM, Dipl. American College of Zoological Medicine

Creating a song to commemorate an event or a person is challenging, fun, and rewarding. Finding the right word and the right rhyme to make a point or highlight an experience takes persistence and a certain knack for finding the right words through trial and error. In this workshop we’ll explore ways to write fun songs about ourselves and others to familiar tunes. Familiarizing yourself with “Major General’s” song in The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan will be helpful homework for this class. Here are the lyrics to the first part of that song:

Lyrics:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.