Randy Newman - Sail Away.....

[OAITW r.2.0]

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[spooky3]

1. I met Mr. Newman and his wife in the 1990s. He is a very sweet man. Nt

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Here's what I think this song is about.

It is a hypothetical sales pitch about the desirability of emigrating to America as though being given to a free-will immigrant.

It is ironic because the hypothetical person receiving the sales pitch is clearly an African who has absolutely no free will whatsoever in the matter.

Due to the blatant racial stereotypes woven into the description of why life here is preferable, it rests entirely on a keen sense of irony to evoke feelings of grand injustice rather than trifling offensiveness.

Unfortunately (or perhaps righteously) the song is no doubt on the proverbial bubble as a candidate for permanent expungement from the culture.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. So, do you like it?

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Yes, I took it in the spirit it was meant.

With all its weightiness and good intentions.

And the beauty of its Newmanesque chordation.

Forty-nine years ago.