This is Exercise #18 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.
"Permutations by groups of 2, 3, 4 and 5 letters " originally appeared on p129 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: #18
Ow sh th me ay ew go to me ho
Ti i'm da re iw nd tt an ot og ed ob
Dal iha led itt kab rin anh out ago our
It's and eri gon tom ght ead yh
Tter noma eiro wher am
Land over aorf orse oam
Llalw youwi armes ayshe gthis ingin song
Ethew showm ohome aytog
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