My name is Yon Yonson,
I live in Wisconsin.
I work in a lumber yard there.
The people I meet as
I walk down the street,
They say “Hello!”
I say “Hello!”
They say “What’s your name?”
I say: My name is Yon Yonson…
Credits
Ririro is the in-house pen name used on Ririro.com for traditional rhymes, anonymous verses, and folk texts that have passed into the public domain. Yon Yonson is one of the internet's most famous self-referential rhymes, known for being cited in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five as a loop soldiers used to pass the time — a fitting origin for such a gloriously pointless verse.
