Alexandrines

This is Exercise #21 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008.

"Alexandrines " originally appeared on p74 of Raymond Queneau's Exercices de Style in the 1998 Calderbook translation.

To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.

Exercises in Song 2008: #21

Direct me down the path I should be taking now;
My eyelids heavy, I want to be sleeping in.
The drink I drank not one hour since has travelled up
My spine; it lurks outside my brain, is creeping in.

Precisely where I am does not occur to me,
Nor seek my roving eyes majestic scenery.
Wherever I might find myself, there find my voice,
Demanding you direct me where I want to be.

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