The Last Name Song

<br>ANDREO<br>Smith-hyphen-Moore-hyphen-Brown-hyphen-Gore,<br>Some more hyphens with Johnson and Green;<br>Palmer and Hook, and then Matterson, Cooke,<br>And Pierce, and then Winters and Dean;<br>Some more of my family is Drinkwater, Wheatland, then Waters, Fields,<br>Hopkins and Banks;<br>There`s Studham and Stidham, then add a whole cache<br>Of more hyphens for Benson and Hawkins and Nash,<br>Wells-Wheeler and Richmond, then add one more dash --<br>Make some more room for "Turne" now. Thanks!<br>Martinez-Melendez-Rodriguez-Menendez,<br>Garcia, and Ruiz and Ruz;<br>Calderon and Paz, Barraza-Diaz,<br>Saenz and Alvarez, Cruz;<br>Gomez and Suarez and Lopez and Juarez, Zamora, Andrade, Ortegas;<br>Villanueva, Ojeda and Prado and Sias,<br>Trujillo-Velazquez-Machado-Casillas,<br>Riviera-Jimenez-Ortiz-Perez-Dias<br>Hinojosa-Bermudez and Vegas!<br>Rivoire-Cartier-Breaux-Lamoureux-Vall&eacute;e,<br>Bailly, LeClair and Perot;<br>And let`s not forget Lafayette and Vallette<br>And Peugeot, Baudelaire, Beliveau!<br>Laroche-Vaux-Giroux-Beauchamp-LaCasse-Ledoux, and Dupont and Dupris<br>and DuBose<br>And after I`ve recited Bruchon and D`Alain,<br>And then Brun and LeJean and Caron and Jourdain,<br>Beaudoin and Mallein and C&eacute;zanne, Guillotin,<br>I can balance this pen on my nose!<br>Russo-Petrini-Vespucci-Rossini,<br>Dell`aqua-Farina-Falcone<br>Moretta and Izzo and, yes, even Zizzo,<br>Vinci-Gentile-Calderone<br>Poletta-Guidotti-Puccini-Barsotti, my list is still far from<br>complete<br>`Cause there`s still Lo Bianco, Lombardo, Rossetti,<br>Quilici, Costanza, Buono, Allegretti<br>Of course Malucelli and then Cappelletti<br>Now, how would you like some to eat?<br>Cohen-Strauss-Kahn-Kaplan-Levin-Dayan,<br>Rothschild, Shapiro and Steinberg;<br>Eppinger-Klein-Goldfarb-Mokoltov-Stein,<br>Blumenthal, Isaacs and Feinberg;<br>Rosenberg, Rosenthal, Goldman, and Stahl, Roth and Rothau-Steinau-<br>Rosenau<br>There`s Silver and Diamant, speaking of which,<br>Then add Goldberg and Silverstein --<br>CHENG<br>Boy, is he rich!<br>ANDREO<br>Hirschfeld-Levine-Howitt-Rabinowitz,<br>Hohenstein, Feldman, Landau<<br>MacArthur-Boswell-Sanders-Bothwell<br>Sanderson-Stuart-Shaw;<br>Ross-Grant-Scott;<br>PITTMAN<br>Names as long as this ought<br>To be against the law!<br>ANDREO<br>McDonald-Johnstone-McIntyre-Keown-Maguire-Lang-Hepburn-Sinclair<br>Epperson-Edison-Murray-Farquhar,<br>Morrison-Boyle-Abernathy-Dunbar,<br>Forsythe-McLeod-Cunningham-Crichton-Urquhar;<br>Gordon, Andrews, and what else is there?<br>Ezra-Bazzar, and Ali and Zavvar<br>Rafsanjani, Tufayl, Ibrahim;<br>And I`m proud to concede that there`s also Said,<br>Karampour-Hussein and Rahim.<br>I can trace a whole streak of some names like Meliq and Saleh on my<br>family tree;<br>Besides that: Rezaie-Abdul, and there`s Khomeini,<br>Soleimani-Karami; and Hamzeh-Momeni,<br>Hayyam-Quzman-Muhammad-Abdallah-Joveyni;<br>Akidjan-Surayj-Taymuree!<br>By some choice of karma, the surname of Sharma<br>Was assigned to a small select few;<br>And Vasu-Devan, Sankar, Sanakran and Shankar,<br>And Yadav, Raman and Babu!<br>Chandrasekharan-Sen-Gandhi-Prabaker, then there are Chandra and Singh<br>and Iyer;<br>Ramaswami, and then Ramakrishna and Bhatt;<br>Patel, Srinivasan, I also have got<br>The names Bhattacharyya, Sandhu, Venkat,<br>Sankarasubramanian in there.<br>Arita-Yamada-Tanaka-Imada;<br>Tashiro-Hitomi-Sasaki,<br>Toyota-Fukuchi, and then Yamaguchi;<br>Suzuki and then Kawasaki!<br>The next names -- Nakanishi, and Ito and Kishi,<br>Also hail from the land of Japan,<br>But I still have to list Honda and Minamoto;<br>Watanabe, Uyeno, of course Miyamoto,<br>Yamamoto-Akaishi and then Yoshimoto!<br>Shimamura . . . but do call us "san"!<br>Seppa-Kallinen-Mattinen-Hanninen,<br>Myyra, Ritola, Nevala;<br>Musta-Alalahti-Keskilahti,<br>Raty-Koski-Ojala;<br>There are Nurmi, Partanen, and Kangas, Mustanen; Saari-Aaltonen-<br>Waltonen;<<br>When they hear the name "Larva" then everyone grins,<br>But that grub`s just the place where the fun all begins,<br>`Cause we`ve still got Hasu, not to mention the Finns<br>Named Suvio, Iso or Nisonen!<br>With the S and the Z, we go to Hungary,<br>With Szabo and Szilard and Szasz,<br>Szekely and Csak, and I won`t even talk<br>About Eg - er - sze - gi, oh my gosh!<br>Torok and Miszei, Nagy, too, and Gyenge, Berkes and Harangi and Kun,<br>Kocsis, Karoly, Wladar; and, yes,<br>With the help of the consonant diphthong C-S,<br>Csupo and Csider, and then Enekes;<br>I ought to be done with this soon.<br>There`s this small part with Vang, and a few who`re named Yang<br>Then Xiong; most just go by those three;<br>But it wouldn`t be fair to leave out Her,<br>As that`s also in my family.<br>There`s Thor and Vue, and then next write Kue,<br>And Shur, Xong, and Lo, and Saykao;<br>Then there are Lor and Hang, and then Ly and Cha;<br>My great-great-great-grandmother gives us, as well, Pha;<br>Moua and Thao, one more hyphen, then Na;<br>It`s a long name, but don`t have a cow!<br>There are Sangco and Songco,<br>Atengco, Tiongco;<br>Toliongco and Tangco; Siangco;<br>Tiogongco, Unpingco,<br>Chahuangco, Tydingco,<br>Luchangco, Cohuangco, Tiangco!<br>And Tengco,<br>Tayengco;<br>Alesana-Lutu-Paopao;<br>There`s Ravuvu, and Vailahi,<br>Leialoha, and Keahi;<br>Mandela-Matsepe-Ngema-Boganda;<br>Bambara-Tutu-Opango, and Banda.<br>There`s a slight chance there may be a few that I missed,<br>But I`m pretty sure that I am done with my list,<br>And you look like you`re getting a cramp in your wrist!<br>So let`s end it up with Teritaau.<br>Teritaau,<br>Yes, let`s end it up with Teritaau!