This is part of the complete Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Polyptotes " is a bonus exercise, not to be found in Raymond Queneau's original Exercices de Style nor in the translations.
To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.
I haven't yet drunk my fill
Of drinking till I start feeling ill,
Though every drinker ought to have a place he calls home:
Will I drink to that? I will.
I drank up foreign lands,
Crossing drunken seas, hot sands
Still my drunkenness repeats its refrain:
Give it the drinks it demands!
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