You must, like me, be a real Al fan to have even heard of this song.
Such a fun ditty on the surface, but with lyrics like an Aesop fable, with the moral of the last line.
Thanks for posting this.
A Scotsman. Who would have ever thought? The greatest singer/songwriter of the 20th + 21st centuries...so far.
He strummed John Lennon's guitar as a 17yo kid.
Historical rock will stand the test of time. Why don't more people know about Roads to Moscow? The Palace of Versailles? and my favorite, The Running Man about Dr Josef Mengle escaping Mossad "nazi-hunters" on his way to South America?
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https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Mg-49UhkmVU
edit2: Antarctica and Helen and Cassandra may sound good, but the only song I know about White men discovering niggers is Hanno the Navigator... You should hear that one. https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=2sYIJyy5X14
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