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Saturday, November 13, 2004

MERRY HAMILTON


Note: The ballad tale told below resembles another earlier ballad, which relates a 16th century incident in the court of Mary Queen of Scots. That earlier ballad, sung by Joan Baez, may be found here.



Word is to the papers gone
And word is to tv
And word is up to the blogosphere
(Particularly to UD):
That Merry Hamilton’s added again
To a most bizarre faculty.

“Arise, arise, Merry Hamilton,
Arise and tell to me,
What thou hast done with Boisselier
Who once taught Chemistry.”

“We put her in a tiny boat
And cast her out to sea
When we found out that she belonged
To an alien clone family.”

“Arise, arise, Merry Hamilton,
Arise and tell to me,
Why is there an ex-terrorist
On your writing faculty?

Know not you of her frightful past?
Her bombs and submachine?
Her pardon by the President,
Which Kerik said ‘sickened me‘?”

“We plan to tighten oversight
Of our hiring practices, we;
That we might ‘scape the ridicule
Of bloggers like vile UD.”
Posted at: 11/13/2004 08:33:00 AM