h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"I saw your beady little eyes
Upon that beetle pie!"

"It is no sin to want to eat!"
Cried Robin, in a rage.

"Of course it's not, but this pie's owned
By a great, wise, old sage"

"The Sage is old and the Sage is wise, but alas I have eaten the pie"...


(yum)




Serj

"That was your sin," young Colin said,
"For now the Sage may die!"

"For I am a sinful devil I will not bear the burden of the Sages death... as my hunger was thus ended by the eating of the pie so that I shall live..."




(I know that was a little long... boohoo, lol...)



Serj

Editorial note: Please try to remember that this is a ballad, Serj. You are requested to add two lines, which fit into the ballad rhythm, and the rhyme scheme. i.e. first and third lines eight syllables ( or four stressed beats ) second and fourth lines six syllables ( or three stressed beats ) OK? The second and fourth lines of each verse must rhyme. Within those modest constraints, anything goes.

He was so old, his beard of gold
All withered was, and dry."

He looked to Colin, so 'tis said,
And calmly supped his tea,

The robin hopped across and said
"'Ere, save a drop for me!"

clever

"You must replace the pie you ate,
Or else no tea you'll get"

Just then, a weathered face appeared
And said, 'Hail all, well met!'

"It is *not* well!" poor Robin cried.
"They'll let me have no tea!"

The stranger cried "Fear not small bird,
keep quiet, follow me..."

Where the stranger led, robin flew
And then before his eyes...

The stranger saw a passer by, and sipped upon his tea

The passer by was quite a sight,
All green and grey and blue,

And pink and purple, brown and gold
All shades of every hue.

With twenty legs, a spikey nose
and three big swivelling eyes