# John Donne x the Beatles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587 "2018-11-15T20:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587/1 "2018-11-15T20:57:32Z")
Having read the forum rules, this may indeed be TOO pointless, but we’ll see. Somehow this forum seemed better than Cafe Society… This has been rattling around in my head for years and I figured if anyone would appreciate it, someone her would. To the tune of “Paperback Writer”: Hey King Charles would you read my book It took me years to write it, will take a look It’s based on the Bible by a man named God And I need a job S I wanna be a religious writer Devotional writer ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587/2 "2018-11-15T21:23:48Z")
> [@TSBG](#): > > in my head for years I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587/3 "2018-11-16T03:41:12Z")
I’m Henry the Fifth, I am, Henry the Fifth, I am, I am. I got married to the princess next door, I won her at the battle of Agincourt. And all of my archers were yeomen (YEOMEN!) 'Cause they make the very best bowmen (BOWMEN!) I’ve a band of brothers, I’m Henry, Henry the Fifth, I am. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587/4 "2018-11-16T04:01:03Z")
This could be a thread game. Not played by me, but someone would play. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587/5 "2018-11-17T06:41:23Z")
**Fretful Porpentine** : Brilliant! I posted this 10 (!) years ago [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10083942&highlight=burning+bright#post10083942:](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10083942&highlight=burning+bright#post10083942:) > [@](#): > > Tiger, tiger, burning bright, Doo-dah! doo-dah! > In the forests of the night, Oh, de doo-dah-day! > What immortal hand or eye, Doo-dah! doo-dah! > Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Oh, de doo-dah-day! > > Gwine to burn all night > Gwine to burn all day… > > =============== > > Piping down the valleys wild, Doo-dah! doo-dah! > Piping songs of pleasant glee, Oh, de doo-dah-day! > On a cloud I saw a child, Doo-dah! doo-dah! > And he laughing said to me: Oh, de doo-dah-day! > > Gwine to pipe all night > Gwine to pipe all day… ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-donne-x-the-beatles/824587/6 "2018-11-17T08:25:58Z")
> [@TSBG](#): > > Hey King Charles would you read my book > It took me years to write it, will take a look > It’s based on the Bible by a man named God > And I need a job > S I wanna be a religious writer > Devotional writer Don’t you mean Bunyan rather than John Donne (d. 1623)?