This limerick not only sends Bach on an entirely imaginary visit to Scotland, it also relies, for its rhymes, on the American tendency to soften foreign or exotic loan words. In American speech, the rhymes in lines 1, 2, and 5 can be read as exact, but I have no real objection to them being read as slant rhymes.
In Scotland, Sebastian Bach
Was composing one day by a loch.
He arranged "Annie Laurie"
In full fugal glory
Intertwining with "Von Himmel hoch".
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