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This is incredibly clever and well done. 👍👍👍
Even the meter mimics the G&S song.
The original "patter song" is from the Pirates of Penzance... music by Arthur Sullivan, lyrics by W. S. Gilbert.
To fully appreciate this parody listen to the original and (in your mind) insert the Shelob lyrics.
For an opera singer to do the original without a mistake is an accomplishment similar to an actor playing Harold Hill in The Music Man, and performing "Ya Got Trouble" without a mistake.
"Breathe out, breathe in. Breathe out, breathe in. If can do both same time, is good." Dennis Chan, 'Xian Chow', Kickboxer. (A Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle.)
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