An atypically spielmusik (music for fun and play) 1930 choral spoken word work by composer Ernst Toch playing on the conventions of the musical form of the fugue, with syllablically-convoluted riffs of place-names being spat out staccato, passing from one section to the next, each place name from a different continent and funnier than the last...

Tri-ni-dad! And the-great-Mis-sis-sip-pi! and-the-town-Ho-no-lu-lu and-the-Lake-Ti-ti-ca-ca...

And the alto section starts chanting:

then the bass section comes in: With luck I can unearth a full copy of the lyrics from my old choir days...
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