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25 minutes ago, Jontee said:

its a dirge 

Try to separate the club from the song. I know it’s hard to do. Or just sing it in your head as I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy. It’s catchy af. 

 
4 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

 And my vote for the least catchy is Carlton’s. It sounds exactly like what it is: a love song. 

The chorus of the song is. 

The entirety of the song  is what is referred to as a British coon song* (a song which stereotyped Africans), drops the n-word in its first verse and was often performed by a singer in blackface. Hence why there was a campaign to have the club song changed at Carlton last year.

https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/l/lilyoflagunathe.html

* This is the actual terminology used for this type of British music hall song. Unfortunately, a slur is baked into how it is referred to.

1 minute ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

This is the actual terminology used for this type of British music hall song.

Well, it is rather cheesy.

 
7 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Well, it is rather cheesy.

There was a reason why Blackadder hated music hall. 😉

More wanting to protect myself from an upbraiding or sanctioning if anything @Demonstone 

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'or' not 'of'

1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

The chorus of the song is. 

The entirety of the song  is what is referred to as a British coon song* (a song which stereotyped Africans), drops the n-word in its first verse and was often performed by a singer in blackface. Hence why there was a campaign to have the club song changed at Carlton last year.

https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/l/lilyoflagunathe.html

* This is the actual terminology used for this type of British music hall song. Unfortunately, a slur is baked into how it is referred to.

I thought it was a song called Lily of Laguna. A sad, soppy old love song. I didn’t know it’s dark history. 


7 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I thought it was a song called Lily of Laguna. A sad, soppy old love song. I didn’t know it’s dark history. 

I didn't either until last year. You definitely aren't Robinson Crusoe there. 🙂

It is indeed a song called Lily of Laguna and there are references to love in the chorus. But reading into most of the lyrics, it uses a lot of pidgin vernacular and starts off, shall we delicately say, provocatively (that's me being understated) by modern standards. 😳

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