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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 Does anyone recognise it? An even greater challenge: can anyone come up with an air to fit the catchy lyric? |
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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? |
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02 May 02 - 11:39 AM (#702915) Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one? From: Airto Yes indeed, sorry about that. |
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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? |
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02 May 02 - 02:30 PM (#703049) Subject: RE: Proletarian songs - who knows this one? From: John MacKenzie Phallus's?? |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |