Songs with running theme

Wow, no wonder you can't sell that script. Your verse is objectively worse.

that is $2/hr more than you're worth.

What did you do today Will, to improve your fitness?

Please report back.

It's like this, I'm afraid:

"I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play

And in the streets, the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken"

-American Pie, Song by Don McLean

Will do. The great mayor and I constantly crack jokes about this clown so I'm sure he'll appreciate this limerick.

As an Irish teacher of English, I am offended that you refer to this as a limerick. It’s not a limerick. It is not in anapestic trimeter.

It should sort of shuffle or gallop along thusly:

There once was a lady named Paquette

Whose bosoms popped out of her jacket

Women shielded their eyes

what a lurid surprise

but my buddies and I, we just whacked it

To be fair he was paraphrasing mine which got deleted and had the right tempo. I'm just impressed that he remembered most of it from the few minutes it was up.

CCR: Up Around the Bend

"There's a place up ahead and I'm going,

Just as fast as my feet can fly,

Come away, come away if you're going,

Leave the sinking ship behind."

Oh, this is a slice of rock history right here. Priceless. Precursor to punk and alt. rock.

Saw him and his band (the Modern Lovers) twice back in the '80s, and it was amazing.

Don't expect anything about actual running, though. Duh!

Ok, now you say it Modern Lovers: