After I added today's Femulate This photo to the blog, the lyrics of this 1965 hit by The Barbarians popped into my head.Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?
With your long blond hair you look like a girl
Yeah, you look like a girl
You may be a boy, hey, you look like a girl
You're either a girl or you come from Liverpool
Yeah, Liverpool
You can dog like a female monkey, but you swim like a stone
Yeah, a rolling stone
You may be a boy, hey, you look like a girl
Hey! Aw!
Hey!
You're always wearing skin tight pants and boys wear pants
But in your skin tight pants you look like a girl
Yeah, you look like a girl
You may be a boy, hey, you look like a girl
Hey!
Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?
With your long blond hair you look like a girl
Yeah, you look like a girl
You may be a boy, hey, you look like a girl
Hey!
Yeah, you look like a girl, hey!
Yeah, you look like a girl, hey!
Yeah, you look like a girl, hey!
Yeah, you look like a girl, hey!
Stan Freberg, in 1966, wrote "Folk Songs for Our Time", which was his idea of what people might write about the '60s in 2066. One was "Which is the Girl? Which is the Boy":
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Which is the boy?
Which one is Blanche?
Which one is Roy?
What a dillemma
With their duplicate hair
Just when you think you've kissed Blanche
You discover that's Blanche over there
The only way that you
Can tell Bernard from Liz
Is if she's backcombed hers
When he has ironed his
Which is the nephew?
Which is the niece?
Which one is Ralph?
Which is Bernice?
How to detect them
It's as everyone says
She looks like Senator Dirkson
And he looks like Joan Baez
I love Stan Freberg's work. His "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume One: The Early Years" is my favorite comedy album of all time!
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