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- From: joe@evolution.u.washington.edu (Joe Felsenstein)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: Trotskyite Mammy
- Summary: of mine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150953.11040@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:09:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov17.150953.11040
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <83804@ut-emx.uucp> dschatz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dan Schatz) writes:
- >
- > I'm looking for the lyrics to a wonderful song I heard at a Folklore
- >Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) Getaway years ago. It's called "That
- >Trotskyite Mammy of Mine."
-
- From the Socialist Song Book, a mimeod publication of the Young People's
- Socialist League, New York City, dated 1959. No editor listed but
- with the Introduction written by Owen Fleischman.
-
-
- THAT TROTSKYITE MAMMY OF MINE
-
- (Tune: Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown)
-
- Oh, that Trotskyite mammy of mine,
- 'Twas from her that I got my first line
- Now I know she's in heaven
- 'Cause she's lefter than Lenin,
- That Trotskyite mammy of mine.
-
- When we'd romp through the neighbor's back yard,
- Taking shots at the National Guard,
- We would mount barricades
- And we'd throw hand grenades
- While the kids marched around as the People's Brigades.
-
- When we fought on the high school eleven
- And the score stood at zero to seven,
- You could hear o'er the din
- Mammy shouting like sin,
- "Shoot your captains, you morons, and bore from within."
-
- When the whistle has ended the game
- You could hear mammy shout all the same,
- "Reassemble your fraction for independent action!"
- That Trotskyite mammy of mine.
-
-
- (I have posted this because it is unlikely that you will find this
- publication at your neighborhood bookstore -- I bought it at a
- literature table in the late 1960s.)
-
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- Joe Felsenstein, Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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