Thursday, September 15, 2005

The song that Flight of the Conchords used to stop racism in New Zealand ( it was really bad before they started singing this song)

In the marmalade forest,
between the make-believe trees,
in a cottage-cheese cottage,
lives Albie, the racist dragon.

Part 6

And so, all the villagers chased Albie the racist dragon
into a very cold, very scary cave.
And it was so cold and scary in the cave that Albie began to cry dragon tears
which, as everyone knows, turn into jelly beans.

Anyway, at that moment, he felt a tiny little hand rest upon his tail.
He turned around and who did that hand belong to but
the badly burned Albanian boy, from the day before.
"What are you doing here?
I thought I killed you yesterday."
Albie grumbled quite racistly.

"No Albie, you didn't kill me with your dragon flames.
I crawled to safety.
But you left me very badly disfigured."
Laughed the boy.

"Why are you crying so?"
"I'm crying because those horrible villagers chased me into this cave.
I think it's because I'm so racist.
Get your hand off my tail.
You'll make it dirty.'

"No Albie, it's not because of your racism that they chased you here.
They chased me here, too, when I became all disfigured like this.
They just don't like you and I,
because, well, because we're different to them."

And that made Albie cry a single tear
which turned into all the colors of the rainbow.
And, suddenly, he wasn't racist anymore.

So they sat in the cave
and ate bubblegum pie (Yum!)
Albie, the racist, well, not anymore, dragon.



Copyrighted by Flight of the Conchords, I'm sure.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I showed this to my roomate. We were both deeply moved.

Dad said...

When next you are home, Lucy, ask to see the videotape. It's much more moving than reading the lyrics.