Winning limerick 2017
This year’s quiz was a riotous and noisy evening that ended with each team having to perform a limerick of their own, written on a randomly chosen theme and sung to a randomly selected tune. The winning team were lumbered with having to sing a limerick about Albert Ketèlbey to the tune of Ding Dong Merrily on High. And that doesn’t sound surreal at all. Here it is:
There once was a man called Ketèlbey
Who went for a walk of a Fell. Be-
-fore he set out
He was crippled with doubt
About something but he wouldn’t tell me.
Our friend, a nice double bassist
Was very soon on the case, est-
-ablished his doubt
Was because he’d found out
That his music was casually racist.
