This is Exercise #12 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.
"Word-composition " originally appeared on p45 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: #12
Route-homeward-to-direct me:
I'm colectigentally bespent.
I littledrank at sixty-minutes-prior o'clock,
And the glassfrom then headwent.
I'm detail-agnostic,
And I won't landseafoam-pick,
If you'll let me sustained-voicèdly sing
My show-me-the-way-home schtick.
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