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Thread #40619   Message #584261
Posted By: Bradypus
01-Nov-01 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Song Challenge! - Part 66 'We're Back!'
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 66 'We're Back!'
Welcome back - and what an excellent crop of songs!

A shameless attempt at a 2-fer-1: can you guess the punchline before verse 6??

Bradypus

Sari Times, They Are A-Changing

Come all you bold weavers and listen to me
The times they are hard, as I'm sure you'll agree
When we now make one sari, we used to make three
For the times, they are a changing

We knew how to weave well, and how to weave fast
Our saris superior, and never outclassed
But now that's all gone, as a new law's been passed
And the times, they are a-changing

The trick that we knew made the bobbin fly well
The threads never broke, as though under a spell
The saris were lovely and easy to sell
But the times, they are a-changing

A rubber, French Letter, prophylactic is what
Made bobbins bob fast back and forth like a shot
But no more in India such things can be got
For the times, they are a changing

We're moving to Italy with shuttle and loom
Somewhere on the coast we will hire us a room
And the bobbins will fly, we'll forget all this gloom
For the times, they are a-changing

Sperlonga's the place where our factory will be
And four times a day we'll send out for coffee
What comes with the coffee makes bobbins run free
And the times, they are a-changing

High fashion high quality saris for sale
An Indian-Italian style surely won't fail
We think we've achieved fashion's holiest grail
And the times, they are a-changing.