♪♫♭ LONG TIME AGO, IN...

 
ETHLEHEM,
...so the Holy Bible say
Mary's boy child, Jesus Christ,
Was born on Christmas Day!
Hark now, hear, the angels sing,
A king was born today!
And man shall live for evermore
Because of Christmas Day!
♪♫♭

So sings Europop supergroup Boney M., now playing in the Diskoteka.

I don't know why Boney M. never made it big in the States. Their other European hits include a version of the reggae classic "By the Rivers of Babylon," itself an adaptation of Psalm 137; "Hooray, Hooray, It's a Holiday!," which borrows its melody from the American folksong "Pollywollydoodle"; and the fabulous disco-kazachok* anthem "Rasputin":

♪♫♭
Rah-rah, Ras-poo-TEEN,
Lover of the Russian queen,
They put some poison into his wine.
Rah-rah, Ras-poo-TEEN,
Russia's greatest Love Machine,
He drank it all and said "I feel fine!"
♪♫♭

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* If you don't know what the kazachok is, find a stoned or drunk friend and tell him, "Dude, dance like a Russian." The arms-crossed-squat-kick-Hey! maneuver that he'll immediately and instinctively perform is, in essence, the kazachok.

UPDATE: Hey, here's a picture:

posted by Throbert | 12/23/2004 01:53:00 AM |

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