song parodies, limericks and long puns

[Cometman]

Michael J. Hußmann wrote:
>Bekah (bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net) wrote:
(after misattributing my quote - mine was the next after the cite you
included. I quoted Chaucer, praised Vineland, and mentioned the banana
song -- btw banana omelets are actually quite good, and I never would
have thought of them on my own)
 
>> In other news,  my favorite Pynchon song (should that be a thread?) 
>> is always and forever "Wacky Coconuts."

>While "Wacky Coconuts" has its merits, my all-time favorite would be
>"Floozy with an Uzi", also from Vineland (which I thouroughly enjoyed
>reading, even when I had read Lot 49, V., and GR before, and in that 
>order).

While both of those are fine indeed, the ones I find myself singing at
odd moments are "Lawrence of Arabia" (to the tune from the movie,
natch), "Down in the streets of Honolulu, just bookin' folks and
gettin' patched through" and "A lawn savant who'll lop a tree-uh"
-- which is at least as good as "for deMille, young fur-henchmen" in GR

--- is there anything along the same lines in the other books: a long
pun that entails a bit of extra plot to fit? --

Have also blurted out more than once when facing stress:
there once was a thing called a v-2
etc etc