50wordstories.ca » melody https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Robots Can’t Play Ukelele https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=216 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=216#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:38:32 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=216 Today, instead of a 50-word story, I offer you a 50-word song, which I composed, recorded and mixed today, all by myself.

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Robots can’t play
Ukelele
Their fingers are all wrong
And they’re much too strong
They’d squeeze it too tight
Plus they can’t fly a kite

Robots can’t play
Ukelele
They don’t know ’bout melody
Mess up the  harmony
They can get in the rhyth’um
But a uke isn’t a drum

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=216 0 The Song https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=129 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=129#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:00:53 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=129 The song was stuck in his head. He couldn’t remember the lyrics, but the melody wouldn’t go away. As he hummed tunelessly, others picked it up and also couldn’t get it out of their heads. Soon, everyone was humming it. And that’s how the song virus destroyed civilization on Earth.

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