Porno Paranoia & Polythene Pam

[Christopher Gonzales]

Hi all,

I want to ask about TRP's lyrics on p. 174 (Viking),,,  out of sync with
GRGR,,,

It's a common rhythmic pattern, but are these lyrics modeled after a song
popular in the forties, maybe?  What's going on in this scene, anyway?

     With a peppermint face in the sky-y
     And a withered old dream in your heart,
     You'll get hit with a piece of the pie-ie,
     With the pantomime rady to start!
     Oh, the Tommy is sleeping in a snowbank tonight,
     And the Jerries are learning to fly--
     We can fly to the moon, we'll be higher than noon,
     In our Polythene home in the sky...

     Pretty polythene home in the sky,
     Pretty platinum pins in your hand--
     Oh your mother's a big fat machine gun,
     And your father's a dreary young man....
     (Whispered and staccato):
     Oh the man-a-ger's suck-ing on a corn-cob, pipe,
     And the bank-ers are, eat-ing their, wives,
     All the world's in a daze, while the orchestra plays,
     So turn your pockets and get your surprise--

     Turn your pockets and get-your surpri-ise,
     There was nobody there af-ter all!
     And the lamps up the stairway are dying,
     It's the season just after the ball...
     Oh the palm-trees whisper on the beach somewhere,
     And the lifesaver's heaving a sigh,
     And those voices you hear, Boy and Girl of the Year,
     Are of children who are learning to die....

Compare the above with the lyrics to "Polythene Pam" from Abbey Road (1969).

Polythene Pam (Lennon/McCartney)

     Well you should see Polythene Pam
     She's so good-looking but she looks like a man
     Well you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
     Yes you should see Polythene Pam.
     Yeah yeah yeah

     Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt
     She's killer-diller when she's dressed to the hilt
     She's the kind of a girl that makes the "News of the World"
     Yes you could say she was attractively built.
     Yeah yeah yeah.

BTW, I quite liked everybody's posts about pornography.  Like Don Larsson,
I too have a pornographic record player, but I don't have any vinyl to put
on it,,, you folks want to post your lists of good vinyl to start my
pornograph collection?

Yeah yeah yeah,

Polythene Chris