Anyone Know This Parody?

[Atheist]

I've heard it read by an actor, and I've read it myself. It's lovely. But I can only find the short verse I attach here; the whole thing goes on forever.

The Modern Hiawatha
(Excerpt from "Song of Milkanwatha")
by Marc Antony Henderson (Rev. George A. Strong, 1832–1912)

He killed the noble Mudjokivis.
Of the skin he made him mittens,
Made them with the fur side inside,
Made them with the skin side outside.
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside.
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side fur side inside.
That’s why he put the fur side inside,
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.

[Buenchico]

To use a far more modern phrase, Atheist, that 'lot does my head in'!

No, I don't dislike it. Indeed, I find the structure very pleasing. It's just that my poor little brain is turned inside out by all of those insides and outsides :)

Perhaps it's because I'm the type of person who writhes or wriggles because, as Henderson/Strong wrote in the introduction to the piece, . . .
Ye who will not writhe nor wriggle
While I tell this story to you,
Will not look or act uneasy,
But will give your whole attention,
Without gaping, stretching, yawning,
While I tell this story to you;
Listen now, for I will tell it,
Tell it truly, as I told you,
As I told you I would tell it,
On condition, you remember,
That you would not writhe nor wriggle,
But would give your whole attention
Without gaping, stretching, yawning,
While I tell this story to you;
Listen now all ye, I pray you,
Hear this Song of Milkanwatha.

[Atheist]

Thank you, Buen..
Nice to hear from a nice person.

[Buenchico]

Thanks for the BA.

I've only just taken note of the fact that you've not got the full text. It can be found here:
https://archive.org/stream/songofmilkanwath00hendiala/songofmilkanwath00hendiala_djvu.txt

[Atheist]

Thanks, Buen. The bit that really tickles me is the inside-outside stuff. The lovely rhythm and rhyme pleases me. I find the inside-outside stuff really fun. Does it make your head spin a bit?

[Buenchico]

Not "a bit", Atheist. A lot!

[Spungle]

Yes, very familiar with it as my mother used to recite that particular verse to me when I was very young, thanks for posting it, and the happy memory.

[Atheist]

That verse is the only one I've heard before. I didn't know that the whole poem went on for ages!

[Spungle]

And ages and ages ;)

[piggynose]

So does parody have multiple meanings?

[jno]

everyone was at it, thanks to the "easy running metre"

http://holyjoe.org/poetry/carroll1.htm