Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 13, 2015
September 12, 2015
September 14, 2015
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Pig, you have to hear this great Elvis song with me. Pig: Can't, I got a job writing headlines for a newspaper and this story's real tough. Goat: What's it about? Pig: An art forger named named Weissman. He had to forge this famous painting of Hay Bales and see if he could fool an international panel of judges at the louvre. Goat: Did he do it? Pig: Well, it fooled the russian judge, but there was a problem with the American judge. Goat: Who was the American judge? Pig: Hi from the comic strip 'Hi and Lois,' who insisted on bringing a female sheep to the judging. And the two of them kept falling on the louvre floor. Goat: That's nuts. So what's the headline? Pig: 'Weissman's Hay only fools Russian, but hi can't help falling in Louvre with Ewe.' Elvis: Wise men say you're a sad little man.
Now that was funny. His puns have become too stale of late, throwing out so many. But that was actually good.
When the blackbird in the spring, on the willow tree, Sat and rocked, I heard him sing, singing Aura LeaAura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.
In thy blush the rose was born, music when you spake,Through thine azure eye the morn, sparkling seemed to break.Aura Lea, Aura Lea, bird of crimson wing,Never song have sung to me, as in that sweet spring.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.
Aura Lea! The bird may flee, the willow’s golden hairSwing through winter fitfully, on the stormy air.Yet if thy blue eyes I see, gloom will soon depart;For to me, sweet Aura Lea is sunshine through the heart.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea, maid of golden hair;Sunshine came along with thee, and swallows in the air.
When the mistletoe was green, midst the winter’s snows,Sunshine in thy face was seen, kissing lips of rose.Aura Lea, Aura Lea, take my golden ring;Love and light return with thee, and swallows with the spring.
Considering one of his hits was to the tune of Aura Lea, I just had to go with this song. Know I’ve seen a version with the lyrics ending about getting married in the spring.