This is Exercise #2 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008.
"Metaphorically " originally appeared on p24 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: #2
O, compass, guide me ashore
To dunes, vales and rolling hills of rest!
I had to splice the mainbrace with a peg and a half
Which unsettled my crow's nest.
While travelling I restocked
All my sherry, port and hock.
So there'll always be a welcome for you:
Just tow my ship to dry dock!
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