In Competition No. 3121 you were invited to submit a song entitled ‘50 Ways to Leave the White House’.
While the brief steered you in the direction of Paul Simon’s 1975 hit (the inspiration for whose distinctive chorus was a rhyming game played with his infant son), I didn’t specify that you had to use that as your template, and some competitors drew inspiration from other well-known songs.
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