Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing
There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip
Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing
(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning
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It's a good thing he didn't sing 'Melting Pot' by Blue Mink. It was an anti-racist song that refered to 'yellow chinkies'.
How times have changed!
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One of the memorable Private Eye covers of the era was about some tyrannical Japanese politician flying to Europe, with the caption "There's nasty nip in the air". Something like that anyway...
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Oh, and plenty of current rap songs use a word which sounds like n*****s to me. In fact it is. Try Cee Lo Green, Forget Me for one. Wouldn't be tolerate if a whitey sung it.
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The problem with this sort of thing is that it makes it harder to be inclusive because one becomes frightened of accidently offending and therefore being subject to either a criminal or civil sanction!
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I wouldn't sing it in public because it was a crap song when it came out, and it hasn't matured well with age
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>> I wouldn't sing it in public because it was a crap song when it came
>> out, and it hasn't matured well with age
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>>>>>>>>>>. you obviously werent there dad ;-)
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>>>>>>>>> Neither
>DF
>>>>>>>>>>> Bell
<<<<<<<< Boy?
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>> I wouldn't sing it in public because it was a crap song
I agree Zero, rubbish. But the possibility that some jumped-up Chinese troublemaker would take offence wouldn't put me off singing it if I wanted to.
The Chinese are the heirs to what may well be the most ancient uninterrupted civilization on earth. How could those two - a mother and son I believe - have jumped on this phoney racism-allegation bandwagon, like moronic Muslims claiming to be offended by crosses or the smell of bacon in a Christian, pork-gobbling country they are living in?
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