At last. It was written some time ago but I wanted to provide a recording of it as well — for which I must apologize. I didn’t want to do the music from scratch and I couldn’t find versions that were more, um, in my range, hence the strangled cat sounds. Herewith the lyrics:
Flocci
Nauci
Ni Hi Li Pi Lification
All those
Letters
Rolled into one
Like an
Endless
Train pulling out of a station
Never
Knowing
If it’s quite done
One magical word storm
Now here is its verb form, to
Flocci
Nau — I
Hope that you’re paying attention
For it’s almost too late —
Cini Hili Pili Fi Cate
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When you see something that does not enthrall
A thing that’s got no worth at all
You think its value is very small
Then what you’re doing is what we call
F Locci Nauci
Nihi Li Pili
Fication
F Locci Nauci
Nihi Li Pili
Fication
You’d think you could say it with a lot less breath
But other ways bore me to death
I think that there’s no better way
So quit your grumbling and let me say
F Locci Nauci
Nihi Li Pili
Fication
F Locci Nauci
Nihi Li Pili
Fication
For when you just don’t care
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If you think
Words are scary
This’ll frighten you
If you like
Dictionaries
You’ll like this too
Once you have heard
If you’re a massive fan of
Lengthy words
Well here’s the longest one
Floc Ci Nau
Ci Ni Hi Li Pili
Fi Cation
What’s it mean?
What’s it matter?
Do you really care?
If you think it’s
Wasting time
You’re probably un-
aware that that
Is just its definition
What it means
Is just what you have thought
Floc Ci Nau
Ci Ni Hi Li Pili
Fi Cation
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Big words, they make you goggle
Rare words, they hit the spot
You moan when you play Boggle
And Scrabble makes you hot
You’ve simply no reaction
To garter belts and lipstick
But there’s a mad attraction
To crosswords that are cryptic
The kind of arcane nonsense
That all language buffs adore
And when you put the tiles down
It’s the best you’ve ever scored
But it won’t fit on the board
Flocci Nauci Ni
Hilipi Li Fi Cation
That’s the core of your
Silly preoccupation
Just trying to prevent
Mental coagulation
Flocci Nauci Ni
Hilipi Li Fi Cation
This verbal perambulation
Hilipi Li Fi Cation
In English there’s no finer
Big word in which to delve
Of letters, 29, sir
Of syllables, it’s 12
If words were like gorillas
You’d be looking at King Kong
And if you think it’s nothing special
Just a little long
Try to put it in a song!
Flocci Nauci Ni
Hilipi Li Fi Cation
Lyrics with it need
Word prestidigitation
Just the sight of it
Causes procrastination
When you’re done you will
Beg for a long vacation
That or defenstration
Hilipi Li Fi Cation