The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38224   Message #536468
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
27-Aug-01 - 09:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Name is Clarence
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My name is Clarence
No, he doesn't want to be a woman. It's just he keeps on running into these characters in macho roles who then turn out to be not so macho at all, and tell him they thin he's rather attractive.

The man who wrote it was along to the Buntingford sing-in last November, but his name has slipped away for the time being.

Appropriately enough, it's an ambiguous song - it can be sung in a way that is intolerant and anti-gay; but it can also be done in a way that is about as anti-gay as Priscilla Queen of the Desert.