GR translation: It will if they let you

[Jochen Stremmel]

I don't think so, Mike; I think the meaning is, in prose: don't let it get
you, it will get you, if they let you let it get you. (Has a nice ring to
it as well.)

2016-07-07 10:20 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V174.29-175.2, P177.25-34   Then the Germans dropped a rocket just
> down the street from the theatre. A few of the little babies started
> crying. They were scared. Gretel, who was just winding up with her
> broom to hit the Witch right in the bum, stopped: put the broom down,
> in the gathering silence stepped to the footlights, and sang:
>        Oh, don’t let it get you,
>        It will if they let you, but there’s
>        Something I’ll bet you can’t see—
>        It’s big and it’s nasty and it’s right over there,
>        It’s waiting to get its sticky claws in your hair!
>
> I found the second "let" in the song puzzling. It turns out the word
> "let" has an entirely different meaning:
>
> let, v.2
> arch.
> 1. a. trans. To hinder, prevent, obstruct, stand in the way of (a
> person, thing, action, etc.).
>
> Is this the correct meaning here?
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