left, left, left my wife etc.

[Geoff Nathan]

>
> Left, left, left, right, left.
>   I left my wife and forty-eight kids
>   Alone in the kitchen,
>   In starving condition,
>   With nothing but
>   Gingerbread left.
And, of course, there's the pseudo-traditional marching chant:

> MILES GLORIOSUS
> Stand aside, everyone! I take large steps!
>
> SOLDIERS
> One, Two, One, Two . . .
>
> MILES
> We not only fought but we won, too!
>
> SOLDIERS
> One, Two, One, Two . . .
> Left, Right, Left, Right . . .
>
> MILES
> There's none of the enemy left, Right?
>
> SOLDIERS
> Right! Left! . . . Uh . . . Ri . . . Uh . . . Left!
from Steven Sondheim's 'A funny thing happened...'
(just for completeness' sake..)

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Geoffrey S. Nathan
Department of English/Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, 48202
<geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
Phones:  C&IT (313) 577-1259/English (313) 577-8621

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