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Thread #13634 Message #4074931
Posted By: GUEST,A friend
10-Oct-20 - 12:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Festival of Light (Judy Small)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Festival of Light
Robbie Well Robbie, if you're still there after 21 years:
I too have a recollection of Reg Livermore singing this (in which show? Betty Blokkbuster?), but it's by Judy Small and appeared on her album "A Natural Selection" (1982).
(Music: Judy Small Words: Judy Small Brideshead verse - Quire)
One of two Judy Small songs the Quire sings. First performed on Stonewall Day, 1981. It also appears on the Quire's first record - "Hormones and Jeans: The Gay Liberation Quire Goes Down On Vinyl". Verses 1,2, and 3 are fairly standard, though verse 3 can be a 'floating' verse replaced witli new ones as the occasion suggests. Verses 4 and 5 are examples of this, 4 being about the film Caligula, 5 being about the t.v. show Brideshead Revisited.
Verse 1: I am a member of the Festival of Light And I know what's wrong and I know what's right Right is right and you're gonna be left If you don't agree with me Mary White.house is our guru And we believe that we can cure you Of every social sin and ill From the Swan to Circular Quay
Chorus: So come on in and close your mind You can leave it at the door behind you Come on in and. sit right down We make the blind to see With our hands upon the Bible We commit all kinds of libel So raise your hands up to your heart And retreat after me
Oh I hate reds and I hate Women Homosexuals are sinnin' child molesters And the Lord knows that it just ain't right I stand for Good clean wholesome family livin' All my sins have been forgiven I'm pure as snow as I do-si-do With the Festival of Light
Verse 2: We follow the lead of moral giants Freda Brown and Anita Bryant The media's behind us We're committed to our cause Women's place is in their houses Looking after kids and spouses Except for Anita, Mary, and Freda They go by different laws
Verse 3: There's topless bathing down at Bondi Nakedness at Ladv Jane Oh, perverts on the rampage on the shores of Thompson's Bay Moral outrage and indignation Sweep across this Christian nation If the Lord had meant us to bathe like that We would've been born that way
Verse 4: That fiim about the Roman emperor Tries even the coolest temper Filth, pornography, and trash Perverting innocent minds Take it off our screens I say Take it off our screens today And these aren't idle words I speak I've seen it fifteen times
Verse 5: Decadence prevails at Brideshead Boys are holding hands they say Bears in perverse coupling on the ABC. … (Rest of this verse lost in the mists of time)
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Judy Small was a psychologist, a folk singer, a solicitor and a Federal Circuit Court judge. She retired in April 2020.