Sunday, June the 19th, 2011
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In Act III, Scene III of Death's Jest-Book, or The Fool's Tragedy by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1829), Isbrand asks an important question:
What is the lobster's tune when he is boiled?
Alas, he does not answer it, but goes on to sing a song about an unborn ghost, a Nile crocodile, and a “little, gruntless, fairy hog”. This is all very well, but I still want to know about the lobster's tune. Can any reader point me in the right direction? Are there any contemporary cover versions?