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Thread #28217   Message #350983
Posted By: Brendy
04-Dec-00 - 05:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Poniatowski (Peter & Lou Berryman)
Subject: Lyr Add: PONIATOWSKI (Peter & Lou Berryman)
PONIATOWSKI
^^ c 1988 P. & L. Berryman

1. Exactly half the way from the equator to the pole,
A quarter of the way around the planet as a whole,
It's very hard to find it on a map of county roads,
Ridiculously easy on a four inch globe:

(Chorus) Poniatowski, Poniatowski, Poniatowski.

2. Magellan's men said, "Captain, have we gotten very far?
We're writing to our mothers just to tell 'em where we are."
The captain said, "Our longitude is 50 on the dot.
I don't know where we are but I can tell you where we're not."

3. A quarter of the way from top to bottom of our earth,
A quarter of the way around the planet of our birth,
Speaking cartographically, it's not extreme to say
It's the most important -towski in the U-S-A.

4. What is on the tip of every schoolkid's tongue?
What, I mean of course, besides a wad of gum?
The name of a location every grownup knows,
Of a church, a couple of taverns, and a school that's closed.

5. I asked an old cartographer where he would rather be.
He mumbled, "There's a place that's always fascinated me.
I'll probably mispronounce it," he admitted with a sigh.
"It's P-O-N-I-A-T-O-W-S-K-I."

I picked up the words from this site:
here

Hope it helps.

B.