page_title: Yon Yonson
section_title: Lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Yon Yonson / Lyrics
caption_attribution_description: English: The "My name is Jan Jansen" song
context_page_description: "Yon Yonson" is an infinitely recursive poem, nursery rhyme or song, perhaps best known from the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, although Vonnegut did not create it.
context_section_description: Numerous versions of the song exist, but all are similar to the following:
  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... (repeated again and again).
  
  Another version goes:
  My name is Yon Yonson,
  I come from Wisconsin
  I work in a lumber mill there
  All the people I meet
  As I walk down the street
  Ask me how in the hell I got there
  So I tell them: My name is Yon Yonson...
  Another version goes:
  My name is Yon Yonson,
  I come from Wisconsin
  I work in a lumber mill there
  All the people I meet
  As I walk down the street
  They say "Hello, Yon Yonson, hello"
  Another version goes:
  My name is Yon Yonson
  I come from Wisconsin
  I work in a lumber yard there, you see.
  And the people I meet,
  When I walk down the street.
  Say 'Hello'.
  And I say 'Hello'.
  And they say 'What's your name'?
  And I say...
  Another version goes:
  My name is Yon Yonson
  I come from Wisconsin
  I work in the Lumberyard there:
  I got hit by a log
  and I live with a dog
  and somehow just set fire to my hair.
  Another version goes:
  My name is Yon Yonson
  I come from Wisconsin
  I work in a Lumberyard there
  As I walk down the street
  All the people I meet
  Say "Hey, What's your name?"
  And I say...
  Another version goes:
  My name is Eye Yonson
  I come from Wisconsin
  I work in a Lumberyard there
  As I walk down the street
  All the people I meet
  Ask me how I came to be there
  And I tell them...
caption: One version of the song About this soundPlay (help·info)
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