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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. 

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    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.

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    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.

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    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 

    Edited by Colin B. Flaubert
    'or' not 'of'

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    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. 

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    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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