The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48329   Message #4192184
Posted By: GUEST,Kevin Boyd
22-Nov-23 - 08:11 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Aux anciens parapets (Miles Wootton)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Aux anciens parapets (Martin Carthy)
I’m not sure why I’m revisiting this thread 20 years after it was last updated, but I was thinking about this recently and remembered that the lyrics that usually appear mis-quote the second line (hilariously, in my view) as “Honor tarts, Sinatra…”, etc.
The version given here (‘Homer stars’) is equally wrong, but at least the OP was unsure enough to place a question mark next to this.
Anyway, I believe the correct lyric should be, “Omertà, Sinatra…”, etc. Omertà being the Italian mafia’s code of silence. That’s all I came here to say.