These verses about Amerigo Vespucci and Queen Isabella were originally published in Bedside Nonsense, from Black Scat Books. Here they are set to music, which I recently recorded with a Venezuelan cuatro. Note that for the sake of the meter “Amerigo” is pronounced in Americanese, as I was taught it in school, with the accent on the “mer.” Here’s the first verse.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Norman Conquest // Feb 19, 2021 at 1:54 am
I’m humming as we speak.
2 Doug // Feb 19, 2021 at 6:40 pm
I’d better start speaking, then.
3 Norman Conquest // Feb 19, 2021 at 1:55 am
Sounds like nonsense to me.
4 Doug // Feb 19, 2021 at 6:42 pm
They were not a sensible pair.