Lyr Req: 'the bourgeois keep their women in ...'

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Airto
Date: 16 May 02 - 04:01 AM

Sorry about the delay in replying, I have been away. I was much too innocent to spot the rather clear double entendre. I thought that even progressive Cambridge students were nice well brought-up people.

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 May 02 - 06:54 PM

Really? Where in G&S?

The pun is perhaps most familiar in

The youth who attend picture palaces
Have no use for psychoanalysis.
Although Dr Freud
Is distinctly annoyed,
They cling to their long-standing fallacies.

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 May 02 - 07:29 PM

That's "phalluses". But "fallacies" is, of course, a pun, going back AT LEAST to Gilbert & Sullivan.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 May 02 - 02:30 PM

Phallus's??

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 May 02 - 11:50 AM

Before Rogers and Hart, didn't Richard Rogers collaborate with Karl Marx on this one?

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Airto
Date: 02 May 02 - 11:39 AM

Yes indeed, sorry about that.

Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: SharonA
Date: 02 May 02 - 10:02 AM

...not to mention the challenge of figuring out how Airto made his lyrics go all over the place like that! I think that the verse should read:

"Oh the bourgeois keep their women
In fancy apartments and palaces.
But the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
Exposes their worn-out fallacies."

Right?

Subject: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Airto
Date: 02 May 02 - 04:36 AM

This verse is from a song that some people claim was sung by progressive students in Cambridge in the 1930s.

"Oh the bourgeois keep their women
In fancy apartments and palaces.
But the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
Exposes their worn-out fallacies."

Does anyone recognise it? An even greater challenge: can anyone come up with an air to fit the catchy lyric?