16 Jan 12 - 12:04 PM (#3291444) Subject: Lyr Add: Global Carnival From: saulgoldie Listening to this song on my rediscovered WFMA compilation from some years back. As done by the Limeliters. Obviously, several of the references are dated, but... Global Carnival by Dick Holmes, ca 1987 (cho.) (At the) first annual global, global carnival, At the first annual global carnival. At the first annual global, global carnival, At the first annual global carnival. We gonna have a jamboree, biggest one you ever did see, We gonna revel in every nation, it will be a celebration, Here the music and feel the beat, on every corner and every street, Close the Kremlin the Congress too, we gonna have a hullabaloo at the cho Israel and Pallestine forming up a conga line The Ayotollah and the Pope, doing a Limbo under the rope Princess Di and the IRA sailing around Montego Bay Forget the left, forget the right, we gonna hava a party tonight at the cho Greeks, Finns, Serbo-Croatians, Eskimos all join in the festivities, Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Christian it doesn't matter whatever your proclivities. Lemme make this very clear: nobody goes hungry, here. Margaret Thatcher parking cars, Fidel Castro passing out cigars, The CIA and the KGB swapping secrets in a mango tree, Plenty of room for you and me, my Uncle Fred and your Aunt Marie, And all the rest of the family can join together in harmony, at the cho |