Following on the heels of the news that the Internationale is still in copyright and letting a character whistle it in your obscure art-house movie could cost you $1300, here’s an awesome blog post with all kinds of factoids and trivia about everyone’s favorite Communist hymn, including links to lyrics in Esperanto and an alternate set of words to sing at Xmas:
Father Christmas, give us some money
We’ll beat you up if you make us annoyed
Father Christmas, give us some money
Don’t mess around with those silly toysBut give my daddy a job ’cause he needs one
He’s got lots of mouths to feed
But if you’ve got one, I’ll have a machine gun
So I can scare all the kids down the street
Update: Gavin sez, “those Christmas lyrics are not alternate Internationale lyrics, but the words to the Kinks’ “Father Christmas” (I think they might be somewhat mangled, but I don’t have a copy of the song here to check). They were suggested on that blog post as being in the spirit of the Internationale rather than new verses for it.”