This is Exercise #7 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008. It's also part of the full Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Ancient Mariner " is a bonus exercise, not to be found in Raymond Queneau's original Exercices de Style nor in the translations.
To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.
Exercises in Song 2008: #7
I cannot find my way home,
Nor shall my meanderings abate,
And water, water everywhere—nor any to drink!
—Is my own benighted fate.
I stoppeth one of three
And relate tales of the sea;
O, by my grey beard and glittering eye,
Guest at the wedding: hear me!
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