| Without the least excuse
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| Or the slightest provocation
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| May I fondly introduce
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| For your mental delectation
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| The names that always give me a concussion
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| The names of those composers known as Russian
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| There’s Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tschaikowsky
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| Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky
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| Godowsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko
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| Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko
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| There’s Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky
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| There’s Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky
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| And Sokoloff and Kopyloff, Dukelsky, and Klenowsky
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| And Shostakovitsch, Borodine, Glière, and Nowakofski
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| There’s Liadoff and Karganoff, Markievitch, Pantschenko
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| And Dargomyzski, Stcherbatcheff, Scriabine, Vassilenko
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| Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, and Gretchaninoff
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| And Glazounoff and Caesar Cui, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff
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| Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff
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| Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff
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| I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!
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| He’d better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough! |