This is part of the complete Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Rhyming slang" originally appeared on p158 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.
Show me to my frog and toad:
I'm cream-crackered and I need a bo'!
I tumbled down the sink and now I'm all daffy-ducked,
So I've got to scapa-flow.
I've been from near and far
To the Scrubs and Ringo Starr;
But you'll always hear me rabbiting on,
Like some daft Ravi Shankar.
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