The Most Brilliant Genre Crossover

Let's play a game. Please sing the following lyrics to the tune of "King of California".

Twas brillig and the slithy toves,
did gyre and gimble in the wabe,
all mimsy were the borogroves,
as the mome raths outgrabe,
Beware, my son, the Jabberwock
the Jubjub and Bandersnatchy
Their claws still catch and jaws still bite,
go kill the Jabberwocky, go kill the Jabberwocky!

Amazing, right?

Now you are probably wondering why I made you whiffle and burble through all that. Let's face it, the vorpal lyrics made little sense and were stolen uffishly from Lewis Carol. But you can galumph beamishly knowing that Lewis Carol basically wrote bluegrass songs....he just didn't know it yet.

Let's try another one! Please sing the following to the tune of "Hot Corn, Cold Corn".

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish,
Black fish, blue fish, old fish, new fish,
Sad fish, glad fish, thin fish, fat fish,
I wish that I had eleven fingers, yes sir!

Pure genius methinks.

I'll bet at this point you're still confused about this whole idea. If you're wondering if being confused in this case is good or bad...go ask your Dad. But Seuss and bluegrass mix well I say. Try it, try it and you may also agree with me.

Allow me to explain. Chris Jones recently published an article about combining Seuss and bluegrass lyrics together and then the twitter account @horse_bluegrass began to follow me (which is what inspired Chris Jones). This got me to thinking, so I thought to myself that we might have a phenomenal phenomena on our hands!

But I think we should cut out the middleman. Why combine when we can each corner one aspect of the market? We take these awe-inspiring lyrics and just mash them to the awe-inspiring sounds of bluegrass. Confidentially, Seuss couldn't sing a lick. And while I think bluegrass lyrics are some of the best in the business, there's always room at the top. Nothing wrong with a bit of expansion. While most bluegrassers sing about talking racehorses, why not be original and sing about the frumious Bandersnatch?

So with this it is my honor to announce plans for my new CD called "Through The Looking Grass with Mark Wimberley".

It's gonna be brillig! It'll be the cat's hat! It should be good.