IT IS NOTORIOUS that far too many popular songs rely on the familiar moon-June-spoon rhyme scheme, which was as tired a hundred years ago as it is today. But is it possible to write a good mune-Joon-spune song? In an old sheet-music archive, Dr. Boli has found a song that answers that question.

A night in June,
A waxing moon;
A lonesome loon
Began to croon:
I can’t forget that night in Saskatoon.

Out on the dune,
You said you’d spoon
With me, but soon
You changed your tune:
I can’t forget that night in Saskatoon.

I waited there for you till half past noon.
You popped my heart just like a toy balloon.

Now when the loon
Begins to croon
His lonesome tune
Like a bassoon,
I can’t forget that night in Saskatoon.