Ralph Vaughan Williams Hat
Mozart came from Austria,
Albéniz came from Spain,
Tchaikovsky was a Russian and Carl Nielsen was a Dane.

To mispronounce these is a sin,
So why, then, is it safe,
To call him Ralph Vaughan Williams when his name was really Ralph?
Copyright © Richard A. Bartle (richard@mud.co.uk)
21st January 1999: ralph.htm