I just found this online and couldn't resist sharing it

Three Limericks, out of many, from a competition by the StarTribune Newspaper in the US.

If corona threatens your life,
Commandment Ten could save you from strife.
Don’t go out anymore
Or see the lady next door,
Thou shalt not COVID thy neighbour’s wife.

Social distancing keeps us apart,
From even those close to our heart.
Two metres the rule,
At work or at school.
Now others can’t smell when we fart.

The great meals my lady does serve
Are way better than what I deserve.
I eat them all but,
when I look at my gut,
I have failed to flatten the curve.

Greyduster

Wonderful, and a damn sight easier to get your tongue round than Tom Lehrer’s The Elements!

Certainly!

I have just sung it. ? Phew! Not out loud though.

As it's a Rap I was trying to rap it but failing, Bathsheba.

Blinko

I sang it but to the tune of 'He is the very Model of a Modern Major General. Were G&S ahead of their time, do you think?

Yes, me too, Blinko
But under my breath even though I'm here alone! ??

Wonderful, and a damn sight easier to get your tongue round than Tom Lehrer’s The Elements!

In G&S they are always referred to as 'patter songs'

Oh yes I went straight to G & S.
For this relief much thanks.

With a DH who has sung his way through the whole G&S repertoire with various amateur operatic groups, how could I not have sung this under my breath?

*Blinko, G&S were not ahead of their time, but of their time. It is just that the events of their time keep repeating themselves.

Bathsheba

Blinko

I sang it but to the tune of 'He is the very Model of a Modern Major General. Were G&S ahead of their time, do you think?

What tune do you think others were singing it to then?

As it's the COVID rap, I was thinking something more like a West Indian beat... Hence my remark 'Were G&S ahead of their time'

Blinko

I sang it but to the tune of 'He is the very Model of a Modern Major General. Were G&S ahead of their time, do you think?

What tune do you think others were singing it to then?

Love it. Sang it in my head so I didn’t have to breathe.

Spot on Monica, and yes, sang it ?

That's excellent MOnica, people are so clever at finding humour in everything, a very British trait I think!

There is also this one:

You keep your whole self in
You send your whole self out
Eat out, Help out
Shake it all about
You do the Hokey Cokey
While we u-turn around
And that's what it's all about

Sorry for the ear worm folks!!

I sang it but to the tune of 'He is the very Model of a Modern Major General. Were G&S ahead of their time, do you think?

I sang it- but not out loud- it’s very good and very apt.

Sang it automatically - you were right Annsixty !

Very clever - if I sang it I'd be out of breath.

Wonderful and how many of you will sing it aloud as you read it as I did.