oklahoma

Watching Oklahoma on the sexevision. The sensation scene featuring a dance off between the IRA and Al Qaeda still has the power to move. The song goes:

The Rah man and Al Qaeda should be friends
Oh the Rah man and Al Qaeda should be friends
The IRA likes to deal some drugs
Al Qaeda is head hacking thugs
But that don't mean that they cannot be friends

I'd like to say a word for the Rah man
Quite often he will pose as a Gaa man
From the siege of Mafeking
He's been people trafficking
But that doesn't necessarily make him a ba-a-ad man

Oh the Rah man and Al Qaeda should be friends
The Rah man and Al Qaeda should be friends
The IRA turns the world to hell
Al Qaeda thinks we're infidels
But that don't mean that they cannot be friends

I''d like to say a word for Al Qaeda
Humanity and love they've got neida
They're in Islam just for fun
So don't you dare call them scum
Because that would be to scum a kind of libel

Oh the Rah Man and Al Qaeda should be friends
The Rah Man and Al Qaeda should be friends
The IRA likes to drug your sons
Al Qaeda kills so Islam comes
And they help each other in any case cos they're frie-n-n-ds

Even after all these years there is an oddly contemporaneous quality to Rodgers and Hammerstein's lyrics. I quite like this.