Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
They’re not afraid now
Disco bar in germany
Les boys are glad to be
Upon parade now
Les boys got leather straps
Les boys got ss caps
But they got no gun now
Get dressed up get a little risque
Got to do a little s & m these days
It’s all in fun now
Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their mercedes benz
To a disco bar in old munchen
They get the jokes that the d.j. makes
They get nervous and they make mistakes
They’re bad for business
Some tourist take a photograph
Les boys don’t get one laugh
He says they’re useless
Late at night when they’re gone away
Les boys dream of jean genet
High heel shoes and a black beret
And the posters on the wall that say
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Next thing you know, they’ll ban “Sultans of Swing” because it’s considered insulting to you-know-who. And let’s not even think about “Rock the Casbah” by The Clash.
But the chicks are free!!
So....are orchestras in Canada going to have to fire the fagotti players?
Perhaps Mark Knopfler and the band were doing a bit of role playing. They imagined themselves as the average joe looking at rock celebs and imagining themselves saying things like
“the little faggot got his own jet airplane” and then saying
“I should have learned to play a guitar”
In a famous Randy Newman song, he wasn’t making fun of
“short people”, he was making fun of bigots and fools:
RANDY: Short people ain’t got no reason to live...
BACKING CHORUS: Short people are just the same as you or I
RANDY: The fools such as I
There it is—Randy is making fun of bigots, he’s “playing a character” and in that last line his “character” is admitting he is a fool.
Robin Hood: You are entering the territory of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Rabbi Tuckman: Faygeles?
[clears their throats, trying to act macho]
Robin Hood: No, no. We're straight. Just... merry.
Rabbi Tuckman: As I. And who are you, with the exceptionally long feather in your hat?
Robin Hood: I am Robin of Locksley.
we were listening to it on the radio recently, and that part had been deleted...
Faggot faggot faggot faggot
Damn. Even MTV played that song unedited (before it became GayTV).
But give a pass to the numerous songs that irreligiously slander or slight Jesus.
I’m much more offended by the reference to MTV.