Lyr Add: A Sentimental Philistine

Subject: A Sentimental Philistine
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:35 PM

I learned this in the early 50s, from an English exchange student at the University of Minnesota, who had been an active member of the Labour Party. It's sung to that famous tune which is used by so many songs such as "Maryland, My Maryland" and "O, Tannenbaum" and on and on. "The Party" here is the Communist Party.

A SENTIMENTAL PHILISTINE

A sentimental Philistine
Couldn't toe the Party line.
He wavered first to left and right
Became a bleeding Trotskyite.
And after months of hestitation
And constant right-wing deviation
He took it all so much to heart, he
Went and joined the Labour Party.
The moral of this story's when in
Doubt, consult the works of Lenin!
DRO

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Sentimental Philistine
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 06:00 PM

Students must have been more serious-minded in the '50s. At uni in England in the '60s we'd degenerated to the following:

'Twas on Gibraltar's Rock so fair
A maiden sweet was lying there
And as she lay in sweet repose
A gust of wind blew up her clothes
A sailor who was passsing by
Tipped his cap and winked his eye
And then he saw to his depair
She had the Red Flag flying there.

or:

The working class can kiss my arse
I've got the foreman's job at last.
I'm out of work and on the dole -
You can stick the Red Flag up your hole.

Wassail! V