This is Exercise #11 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008.
"Word game " originally appeared on p33 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.
(Flower, heels, coniform, papism)
Now that I wilt like a flower,
And my wagon's lost its set of wheels,
And now the dog whose hair I've chewed on for an hour
Is snapping at my heels,
I think of coniform
And squat hills where I'd roam;
Yet I'll always pine for papism's hearth:
Show me the way to find Rome!