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Thread #7522   Message #46567
Posted By: Steve Parkes
23-Nov-98 - 08:16 AM
Thread Name: Most un-favorite song topics
Subject: RE: Most un-favorite song topics
Some years back we were "celebrating" the 50th anniversary of WW2 (1939 over here), and we turned up a song with this chorus:

Oh, the wop and the jap and the hun, They'll be sorry for the war that they've begun. They must pay the price, those three blind lice, The wop and the jap and the hun.

Apologies if that offends; the war was over six years before I was born, so I'm not out to upset anyone. However, it's hard to resist such offensive songs, although we weren't allowed to use it in a show. But in '95 I was talking to Dave & Al Sealey (Cosmotheka) about their radio show of WW2 songs, and asked Dave if he'd come across the one above in the course of his researches. He had, of course; but he asked me if I'd heard one called Belsen Bill, which I haven't. He wouldn't sing it for me, and I don't want to know the details. Still, I thought I'd better warn you all ...

Steve