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Thread #142711   Message #3291444
Posted By: saulgoldie
16-Jan-12 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Global Carnival
Subject: Lyr Add: Global Carnival
Listening to this song on my rediscovered WFMA compilation from some years back. As done by the Limeliters. Obviously, several of the references are dated, but...

Global Carnival
by Dick Holmes, ca 1987
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(At the) first annual global, global carnival,
At the first annual global carnival.
At the first annual global, global carnival,
At the first annual global carnival.

We gonna have a jamboree, biggest one you ever did see,
We gonna revel in every nation, it will be a celebration,
Here the music and feel the beat, on every corner and every street,
Close the Kremlin the Congress too, we gonna have a hullabaloo at the

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Israel and Pallestine forming up a conga line
The Ayotollah and the Pope, doing a Limbo under the rope
Princess Di and the IRA sailing around Montego Bay
Forget the left, forget the right, we gonna hava a party tonight at the

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Greeks, Finns, Serbo-Croatians, Eskimos all join in the festivities,
Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Christian it doesn't matter whatever your proclivities.
Lemme make this very clear: nobody goes hungry, here.

Margaret Thatcher parking cars, Fidel Castro passing out cigars,
The CIA and the KGB swapping secrets in a mango tree,
Plenty of room for you and me, my Uncle Fred and your Aunt Marie,
And all the rest of the family can join together in harmony, at the

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