This is Exercise #5 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008.
"Proper names " originally appeared on p157 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: #5
Show Mimi how to get Hywel:
I'm Cy and I want to Giuseppe.
I had a Johnnie Walker just a Huyghens ago,
And now I'm Don Quixote.
Wherever I Paul Klee
(Foma, Erdmann or Marie),
You will Kasper Krone my Édith Piaf:
Show me the Ray from Paris!
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