Philosophers' Song
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watching "20 Years of Monty Python" and seeing the Philosophers' Football
Game,(another classic!), I realized that the words to the Philosophers' Song
would make a welcome addition to my collection of Monty Python sketches. Also,
as a friend pointed out to me, it's a great song to sing when you're drunk.
Mr. Teabag, a.k.a. Russ
Ministry of Silly Walks
e-mail:1910694ps380.sscl.uwo.ca
Matthew Jerome Rush
Here you go (but please don't hold me accountable for the
spelling of these names!):
Immanual Kant was a real piss-ant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidigger, Heidigger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidriech Hegel
And Wittgenstien was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Shlegel
There's nothin' Nietzche
Couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raisin' of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill
Of his own free will
A half a pint of shanty
Was particularly ill
Plato they say
Could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey
Everyday
Aristotle, Aristotle
Was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descarte
Was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates himself
Is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed.
Note that sometimes "Wilhelm Freidreich Hegel," in the first
verse, is replaced by another line, which I'm not really sure
of, but it ended with "Hegel."
Glad to be of service.
Matt at UVA
Andrew Baker Glazier
I memorized the lyrics just to learn to pronounce their names
right (B.A. in Philosophy, 1992)
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who was very rarely stable
David Hume could out-consume Wilheim Friedrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlagel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya bout the raisin' of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanantly pissed!
John Stuart Mill of his own free will drank half a bottle of shandy whilst
particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a pint of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle, was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his
dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,"I drink therefore I am!"
Yes Socrates himself is particularly missed, a lovely little thinker, but a
bugger when he's pissed!
And if I misspelled a name or two, don't flame me for it, this isn't a
file I included in a post, I did all of it from memory
so there
--
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Andrew Baker Glazier
oh, and the second verse ends "who could *think* you under the table"
HendersonThynne M
Immanual Kant was a real pissant,
Who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger,Heidegger was a boozy begger,
Who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume,
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine,
Who was just as schloshed as Schegel.
Theres nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates, himself, was permanantly pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato they say, could stick it away,
Half a crate of whisky every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.