Just for alchemist (
), here's a breakdown of the puns and wordplay in my challenge entry this month. (Not guaranteed to be comprehensive.)
First are the words
directly related to songs and those who sing them. Here's the entry with those words put in bold red:
Gunsingers of the Old West: “The Soprano Shoutout”
or “Punfight at the Hokey Chorale”
Long ago, folk at the first ‘Bavarian’ village became fed up with stuffing the ballad box, stocking songs (“liederhosen”) and lining up at the bar. They craved to see duets between All-American Meistersingers, ones quick on the drawl.
Their descant into madness began with Lee Rick’s bass-less choruses of an accusatory tenor, got verse in the barbershop, and ended in sparks as “Buskin” Frank Leslie declared, “This tune ain’t big enough for both of us.”
I missed a trick, though: "declared" should have been "declaimed".
Other wordplay included: alluding to bar-lines; Lee Rick = lyric; there was a real gunfighter called
Buckskin Frank Leslie;
Shout was another song.
The story was "inspired" by the hit song,
This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us, by Sparks. This was the A side of one of the few (less than five) 7" singles that I've bought in my life.
Finally, I still blame Boneman....
(Note that there is at least one US "Bavarian" village, in Washington state, though I doubt that it was around in that form in the nineteenth century.)
