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whose "Get a Job" lyrics feature the phrase
"sha-na-na" and variants and was a #1 hit on
multiple Billboard charts in 1958. Yip yip yip
yip yip...mum mum mum mum mum...
Anna-na Karenina-na…?
Da! This novel’s Tolstoy’s.
Banana-nas…? Chiquita sends us
handfuls…boatloads…convoys!
“Uncle Tom’s Cabana-na”…?
From ‘toon director Avery.
Diana-na…? A princess dies.
(The incident’s unsavory.)
Bay-bed Epifauna-na…?
They line the Chesapeake.
The Erin Isle’s Fermanagh-nagh…?
Their soup’s potato/leek.
Equestrian Gymkhana-na…?
A horse-‘n’-rider playdate.
Gabriel’s Hosanna-na…?
Judaic. Tough to translate.
Tennessee’s The Night of the Iguana-na…?
More Streetcar.
Jonah-nah…? Got swallowed
by a fish. We read his memoir.
Hurricane Katrina-na…?
A cryin’ shame! A pity!
Slovenia’s Ljubljana-na…?
It’s Cleveland’s sister city.
Peggy Lee’s Mañana-na…?
It’s “soon enough for” her.
Nirvana-na…? Lord Buddha asks,
“Which bliss do you prefer…?
“Oh, Donna-na” moved up
the Hot 100 when he* died.
The Amazon’s Piranha-nha…?
Go swimmin'…? You decide!
* Its composer and earliest
performer, Richie Valens
Manuel Jose Quintana-na…?
He (MJ...?*) penn’d Pelayo.
Bactrian Rukhsana-na…?
We must reread her bio.
* Not to be confused with
number 23, Michael Jordan. Among
the alternate entries for Q is "Qasr
al-Kharana-na...? It isn't in Ohio."
The riverboat Sultana-na…?
Its first three boilers blew.
Mexico’s Tijuana-na:
We shan't go there. Shall you…?
We studied at Champagne/Urbana-na --
went all four years.
Peruvian Vicugna-na Vicuña-ña…?
Dear deers!
Country girl Wynonna-na…?
Made music as a Judd.
Warrior princess Xena-na…?
She guzzles dragon’s blood.
Yerba Buena-na…?
It’s class’d as C. douglasii.
New York hamlet Zena-na…?
Its yards...? Green-grassy.
‘Bye.
