Jake Eakle

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@casy i started reading this one 24 years ago but then my copy got left out in a storm in the Peruvian rainforest and i could not continue. i wonder if i should try again.
@sugar your order looks pretty good, but personally i'd swap "a life of adventure" and "a token of love". adventures are fun!

Here it is, “Puzzles of 2025”. It's 40 tracks long!

Hopefully there's something to delight and annoy all sorts of music fans, especially fans of albums that are also crossword puzzles.

be well ! ! !

https://puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzles-of-2025

Puzzles of 2025, by carrie z + hedra rowan

40 track album

carrie z + hedra rowan
@lovegame also missed "cuddled her and" rather than "lovingly he". other than that though just a couple small words wrong, i thought it'd be worse.
@lovegame ah crap i knew it, i missed the best verse

@lovegame

So the turtle crept off crying
And he ne'er came back no more
And he left the bagpipe lying
On that smooth and sandy shore

So some night when tide is low there,
Just walk up and say "hello there!"
And politely ask the bagpipe
If my story's really so—

I assure you, darling children,
The bagpipe won't say no.

@lovegame

Said the turtle to the bagpipe,
"Ah! You love me then, confess!
Let me whisper in your dainty ear
And hold you to my chest."

And so lovingly he teased her,
And so tenderly he squeezed her—

And the bagpipe said, "AWOOOOGA!"

Said the turtle to the bagpipe,
"Did you honk, or bray, or neigh?
For "awooga" when you're kissed
Is such a heartless thing to say.

"Is it that I have offended?
Is it that our love has ended?"
And the bagpipe didn't say no.

@lovegame Said the turtle to the bagpipe
"I have walked this lonely shore,
I have talked with waves and pebbles,
But I've never /loved/ before.

"Will you marry me to day, dear?
Is it 'no' you're going to say, dear?"
But the bagpipe didn't say no.

Said the turtle to the bagpipe
"Please excuse me if I stare,
but you have the plaidest skin dear,
and you have the strangest hair.

"If I begged you pretty please love,
Could I give you just one squeeze love?"
And the bagpipe didn't say no.

@lovegame let me see if I can still do The Bagpipe Who Didn't Say No... I bet i'll mess up pretty bad it's been a long time

It was nine o'clock at midnight
And a quarter after three
When a turtle met a bagpipe
On the shoreside, by the sea

And the turtle said "My dearie,
May I sit with you? I'm weary."
And the bagpipe didn't say no.

@lovegame as a Jabberwocky-formerly-mostly-knower, i didn't notice any errors beyond punctuation... ok let's see

ah! "by", not "'neath". and "'twas" not "t'was", but, i'm filing that under punctuation. so only -1!! well done, very impressive.