National Brotherhood Week Lyrics
Artist(Band):Tom Lehrer
National Brotherhood Week Lyrics
One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week. This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes. One of my favorites is National Make-fun-of-the-handicapped Week which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know. During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood. This year, for example, on the first day of the week Malcolm X was killed which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. Here's a song about National Brotherhood Week.
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek. It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic. Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week. Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
Re: your tag line- I was reading a well researched novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, written by Georgette Heyer, "A Civil Contract," published in 1961.
Apparently the British public believed that Wellington's exploits in the Peninsular War were over-rated. There was great debate in the House of Lords about whether to spend the money to keep up the Army after Napoleon went to Elba.
Many in the "nobility" lost their fortunes by selling cheaply out of their government "funds" when news started to come through about the carnage at Waterloo. Because they had speculated on losing the war, there were many in government who were furious with Wellington and called Waterloo a defeat for several year afterwards.
I thought that kind of historical revisionism was a product of our times, but apparently not.
Don't remember that one.
"And everybody hates the Jews."
LOL, thanks for posting these lyrics. I really need to see if you can get Lehrer on CD, I recently realized hubby doesn't know him at all.
my fave:
Plaigerize!!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes!