I’ve got a problem that is bothering me.
I’ve got a real insoluble mystery
It would stun G. K. Chesterton – foil Conan Dyle –
Stump Humphrey Bogart and Bacall.
Who’s gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates me?
I don’t doubt my loyalty,
But who knows just what his might be?
Who’ll check the record of the man who checks the record of the man who checks the record of mine?
Seems to me there’s gonna be an awfully long line.
One more problem worries me – pardon my strange whim –
But who’s gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates him?
Maybe they won’t like the clothes he’s wearing –
Maybe he has too much class.
Maybe he’s a guy who’s fond of herring,
Maybe he drinks tea from a glass.
Believe me, brother, that won’ pass.
Seems to me there’s gonna be an awfully long line.
One more problem worries me – pardon my strange whim—
But who’s gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates him?
I’ve got a real insoluble mystery
It would stun G. K. Chesterton – foil Conan Dyle –
Stump Humphrey Bogart and Bacall.
Who’s gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates me?
I don’t doubt my loyalty,
But who knows just what his might be?
Who’ll check the record of the man who checks the record of the man who checks the record of mine?
Seems to me there’s gonna be an awfully long line.
One more problem worries me – pardon my strange whim –
But who’s gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates him?
Maybe they won’t like the clothes he’s wearing –
Maybe he has too much class.
Maybe he’s a guy who’s fond of herring,
Maybe he drinks tea from a glass.
Believe me, brother, that won’ pass.
Seems to me there’s gonna be an awfully long line.
One more problem worries me – pardon my strange whim—
But who’s gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates him?
inviata da Bernart Bartleby - 10/2/2016 - 14:00
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Parole e musica di Harold Rome
Testo trovato su Labor Arts
Harold Rome (1908-1993) è stato un famoso compositore e autore americano di musical. Ebbe un grande successo a Broadway a cominciare dal secondo dopoguerra, ma già prima era diventato noto per aver realizzato la rivista musicale “Pins and Needles”, commissionatagli dal sindacato International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), con le stesse lavoratrici e lavoratori come protagonisti, “the only hit ever produced by a labor union, and the only time when a group of unknown non-professionals brought a successful musical to Broadway” (John Kenrick)
Dopo Gee, but I’d Like to Be a G-Man, ancora una canzone di Rome diretta contro John Edgar Hoover, per 48 anni consecutivi direttore dell’FBI, mezzo secolo di potere totale ed incondizionato interrotto soltanto dalla sua morte (naturale)… Un vero sceriffo, un G-man, che usò il pugno di ferro, e parecchio piombo, non solo contro gangster e mafia ma pure contro comunisti, radicali ed oppositori politici in genere…