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Thread #30550   Message #392504
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
07-Feb-01 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Arson, Rape, and Bloody Murder
Subject: Arson, Rape, and Bloody Murder ^^
Just reading a current "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor" thread, I remembered this golden oldie, sung to The Battle Hymn of the Republic a/k/a John Brown's Body.

This is a "zipper song", into which you can put all sorts of poetic-justice revenges against "capitalist exploiters", to be carried out "When the Red Revolution Comes". The ones I remember below are dated, I suppose, but they illustrate the principle. Endless possibilities

ARSON, RAPE, AND BLOODY MURDER

We'll make Eleanor Roosevelt use a Brooklyn accent when she speaks
We'll make Eleanor Roosevelt use a Brooklyn accent when she speaks
We'll make Eleanor Roosevelt use a Brooklyn accent when she speaks,
When the Red Revolution comes!

CHO: Gory, gory revolution! (3X) When the Red Revolution comes!

And this one about Adlai Stevenson:
We'll make Stevenson write speeches for the people's commissar (3X) When the Red Revolution comes!

CHORUS

And on and on. Make 'em up as you go along.
DRO^^