The Spoonbill Generator

In a poisoned gondola       [Roland ]

A poisoned body lay       [Beefy ]

And all the poisoned lookers-on       [Roland ]

Had had her in their way       [Apsley ]

And halfway up the Grand Canal       [Roland ]

While lookers-on were looking       [F ]

A pastry-chef removed the lid       [Roland ]

And found his latest booking       [Apsley ]

Hellebore and arsenic       [Roland ]

Had torn her life away       [Apsley ]

And all the poisoned lookers-on       [(trad) ]

Had looked the other way       [Apsley ]

And halfway down the Grand Canal       [Roland ]

While lookers-on were dreaming       [Apsley ]

She rose, and flung aside the lid       [Roland ]

Her front incisors gleaming       [Beefy ]

If he had bled a little less       [Roland ]

Or cried a little more       [Beefy ]

And poisoned all the lookers-on       [Apsley ]

Who feasted on his gore       [Roland ]

And dabbled in the Grand Canal       [Beefy ]

While dreamers-on were looking       [Roland ]

He would have lived to make a bid       [Apsley ]

For less unseemly cooking       [Roland ]

So, for corpse, a corpse is swapped       [Apsley ]

As truth is stale, our tale is stopped       [Roland ]