This is Exercise #17 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008.
"Official letter " originally appeared on p54 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: #17
Dear sir, I write to complain.
No wonder our city still declines!
Unless a tourist has a map, he's bound to get lost:
We require, in short, more signs!
No wonder our city still declines!
Unless a tourist has a map, he's bound to get lost:
We require, in short, more signs!
With them, they'd find the tours
And the cafés, pubs and stores,
And they wouldn't have to keep asking me!
(Most deferentially yours....)
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