Tom Jones - Delilah

[mushroom25]

.......trivializes domestic violence?
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/dec/11/wales-supporters-delilah-stop-singing

well does it? should it be banned?

[sandyRoe]

It's an account of murderous domestic violence. There's no place for it in this day and age.

[2sp_]

I've never actually really paid much attention to the lyrics before...

Can't say that I really believe that anyone is going to commit murder just because they have listened to a Tom Jones song. (Unless you play it backwards of course...)

[murraymints]

no of course not...it's a great song...

[2sp_]

I'm not trivialising domestic violence, by the way. Just think there are bigger causes and influences than a decades old song...

[BlackadderV]

How does the song 'trivialise' murder? It is a tale of passionate revenge, much like Tony Christie's 'I did what I did for Maria'.

[Svejk]

Pathetic.

[ummmm]

Just daft.

[pastafreak]

Songs with murder and revenge as a subject have been around for centuries...nothing new about it
This is an old folk song...Banks of the Ohio...in this version it's a womans lament,but I think originally written to be sung by a man.

I asked my love to take a walk
To take a walk, just a little walk
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio

And only say that you'll be mine
In no others' arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio

I held a knife against his breast
As into my arms he pressed
He cried "my love, don't you murder me
I'm not prepared for eternity"

I wandered home 'tween twelve and one
I cried, "My God, what have I done?"
I've killed the only man I love
He would not take me for his bride

And only say that you'll be mine
In no others' arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio

[jno]

blackadder, Tony kills the man who killed his wife - that's revenge. Tom just kills an unfaithful girlfriend. That's not revenge.

Weird song to sing at a rugby match anyway, though less so than singing "*** spirituals" (as we used to call them) at Twickers. Surely there must be something more appropriate in the Welsh songbook?

[AlwaysConfused]

Unbelievable.

[Psybbo]

They'll be banning The Old Rugged Cross next!

[BlackadderV]

I notice that this emanated from Plaid Cymru. Is this a foretaste of the censorship the people of Wales will have to endure should that party ever attain a majority in the Assembly?

[jno]

oh well, if everyone's happy with songs about honour killings, that will delight Allah.

[BlackadderV]

Of course, Psybbo. it's offensive to Muslims.

[Peter Pedant]

OMG thank G we dont have narco-corridas here:

A narco-corrido Drug Ballad) is a sub-genre of the Mexican norteño-corrido (northern ballad) music genre, This type of music is heard on both sides of the US–Mexican border. It uses a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. The first corridos that focus on drug smugglers—of 1910, tell the stories of revolutionary fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido music to gangster rap.[1][2]
Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events and include real dates and places.[3] The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of illegal activities such as murder, torture, racketeering, extortion, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and sometimes political protest due to government corruption.

disgusting !
what would AOG say ?

[Tuvok]

Mamma
Just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled the trigger now he's dead


Name that tune. - but don't ban it!!!!!!!!!

[Peter Pedant]

and Miss Otis regrets

no wonder we dont sing THAT nowadays !

[sandyRoe]

Viva Zapata?

[BlackadderV]

/ Tom just kills an unfaithful girlfriend. That's not revenge. /

I don't know how you can say that and keep a straight face.