This is Exercise #4 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.
"Precious " originally appeared on p192 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: #4
I crave that you indulge me,
And, like a Samaritan of old,
Assist me with directions to my rus in urbe;
My asylum; my stronghold.
My weariness has won,
And o'erthrown my devotion
To a life of Bacchanalian glee:
Instead, I—wait, I'm not done!
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