If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

[Duncan Gardner]

If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

John Fogerty
Would much rather be
Where neons turn to wood
If he only but could.

Doug 'Cosmo' Clifford
With Fogerty differed
On the rights and the wrongs
Of who'd pen the songs.

Stu 'Binky' Cook
Could deliver a hook
But it transpired much later
Sang like a cheese grater.

Tom (a Fogerty brother)
Was usually another
Of that tight rhythm section
(Who backed 'Joyful resurrection').

[nefertiti]

If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

Billy Ray
was unlikely to be gay
And despite, or possibly because of, the fact that his father was a man of the cloth and not a man of action
He was uniquely able to give both Dusty and Aretha satisfaction.

[nefertiti]

If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

Madam George
was partaking in a melancholy org-
y of leave-taking from her love
when on the way to the station that person dropped his or her glove.

[Duncan Gardner]

If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

Paul Heaton
Just saw his team beaten
Though the second album, 'Choke'
Did not apply to Stoke.

[ad hoc]

If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

Deacon Blues
Had a taste for the booze
And frankly pretty much every other vice
Except cocaine served with rice

[nefertiti]

If the great songwriters only wrote clerihews

Billie Jean
is not my lover, (know what I mean)
She’s just a girl who claims I am the one
But the kid is not my son