Pop Lyric Sheets: Understanding Art part 53
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Your support makes all the difference.At the Oxford Union debate last week, the motion proposed was that Rock and Roll is The Greatest Art Form. For the motion were Keith Allen and Blur's Alex James. Against were Mariella Frostrup and DJ Dave Haslam. The pros won the debate.
The greatest art form ever
Was dragged out of a bar
Fuelled on blues and jump-jazz
And handed a guitar
Some ramalama farmers
Saw-toothed it in the south
And doo-wop boys on corners
Filled in the rest by mouth
Brought into port by sailors
Picked up by pasty lads
Kicked in the head in Hamburg
Or whammied by The Shads
The greatest art form ever
Was best observed by night
In smallish clubs
Upstairs in pubs
In nicotine-soaked light
And everything about it
Was trashy, cheap and good
When discs might sell a million
Which frequently they would
The greatest art form ever
Was a filthy first French kiss
Until big business bought it
And then it sunk to this:
"Laydeez'n'Genn'lmen
Guyz and galz
And all who fall between.
This House believes the art form
Is the best there's ever been
Except of course for banking
In the case of certain bands.
- Oh and possibly, those small
Perspex ornaments that people
bring back from holidays in the
Isle of Wight, filled with layers
of different coloured sands."
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