[Newspoetry] "I saw three ships" song

[DL Emerick]

I solved a tough crossword puzzle

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.

I solved a tough crossword puzzle

on Christmas Day in the morning.

 

Were the words acutely defined

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?

Were the words acutely defined

on Christmas Day in the morning?

 

Definitions fit square arrays

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.

Definitions fit square arrays

on Christmas Day in the morning.

 

Oh, what did words pretend to say

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?

Oh, what did words pretend to say

on Christmas Day in the morning?

 

They spoke the sounds of all randomness

on Christmas Day,  on Christmas Day.

They spoke the sounds of all randomness

on Christmas Day in the morning.

 

Oh, matrix filler, were you then glad

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?

Oh, matrix filler, were you then glad

on Christmas Day in the morning?

 

When I was done, I swore some aught

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day,

When I was done I swore some aught

on Christmas Day in the morning.

 

And all sharp eyes on earth should wink

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day!

And all sharp eyes on earth should wink

on Christmas Day in the morning!

 

References (footnotes omitted above):

 <http://www.allthingschristmas.com/stories/InTheMorning.html>
http://www.allthingschristmas.com/stories/InTheMorning.html -- story by Pearl S
Buck

 <http://willow_firesong.tripod.com/YulCarls/Christm1.html>
http://willow_firesong.tripod.com/YulCarls/Christm1.html

 <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/000001b8.png>
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/000001b8.png

 <http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab3/chdm.html>
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab3/chdm.html

 <http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/773>
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/773 (anti-semitic original)

 
<http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/upon_christmas_day_in
_the_mornin.htm>
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/upon_christmas_day_in_
the_mornin.htm

 <http://www.danfogelberg.com/lyricsfirst.html>
http://www.danfogelberg.com/lyricsfirst.html (scroll down to "I saw three ships)

And so it goes for 28,400,00 hits. not excluding duplicates caused by search
duplicity machines.

 

Note: A structural analysis of this "song" by its formation:

8 beats to a line, 4 lines to a stanza, 8 stanzas in all;

each stanza repeats a two line couplet, with last 4 beats of couplet varying;

all stanzas identical in lines 2 and 4, except for punctuation;

Stanzas 1 and 2 are declarative; stanzas 3 to 8 alternate between query and
response.

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