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- From: drraymon@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Darrell Raymond)
- Subject: Re: Request Philosphers
- Message-ID: <Bzo3Cv.2Gt@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Dec21.234120.17467@bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:36:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.234120.17467@bnr.ca>, harsch@bnr.ca (Joseph Harsch) writes:
- >
- > Does anyone have the words/music to the philosphers song
- > done by Monty Python? Goes something like this ...
- > -jc harsch
-
- Here ya go. I'm not *perfectly* confident that I've got all the
- words right, and corrections are welcome.
-
- -Darrell.
-
-
- {title:Monty Python's Philosopher's Song}
-
- [D]Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant
- Who was very rarely [A]stable
- Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
- Who could drink you under the [D]table
- David Hume could out-consume
- Whilhelm Friedrich [G]Hegel
- And [A]Wittgenstein was a beery swine
- Who was just as sloshed as [D]Schlagel
- There's nothin' [A]Nature didn't teach yer
- 'Bout the raisin' of the wrist
- Socrates him[D]self was [B7]permanently [E7]pissed
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- John Stuart Mill of his own free will
- On a bottle o' shanty became particularly ill
- Plato they say, could put it away
- Half a pint of whiskey every day
- Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
- Hobbes was fond of his dram
- And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
- `I drink therefore I am'
-
- But Socrates himself is particularly missed
- A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed
-