The Purist

for soprano and guitar

text by Ogden Nash

(2002) Duration: 1:30

PURCHASE

Performance by Due Colori – Megan Monaghan and Daniel Boring

I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist,
Trustees exclaimed, ‘He never bungles!’
And sent him off to distant, distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator,
Professor Twist could not but smile,
‘You mean,’ he said, ‘a crocodile.’

Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Copyright ©1936 by Ogden Nash