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

02 May 02 - 04:36 AM (#702697)
Subject: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Airto

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?


02 May 02 - 10:02 AM (#702862)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: SharonA

...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?


02 May 02 - 11:39 AM (#702915)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Airto

Yes indeed, sorry about that.


02 May 02 - 11:50 AM (#702922)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Lonesome EJ

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


02 May 02 - 02:30 PM (#703049)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: John MacKenzie

Phallus's??


02 May 02 - 07:29 PM (#703252)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Uncle_DaveO

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

Dave Oesterreich


03 May 02 - 06:54 PM (#703941)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Joe_F

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.


16 May 02 - 04:01 AM (#711409)
Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one?
From: Airto

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.