--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > Lennon-McCartney doesn't exactly celebrate him, although I > always admired the Sabicas riff at the intro: > > HE went out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun > In case of accidents he always took his mum > He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son. > > All the children sing! > > Hey Bungalow Bill > What did you kill > Bungalow Bill? (2x) > > Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies > Bill and his elephants were taken by surprise > So Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes > Zap! > > All the children sing! > > Hey, Bungalow Bill > What did you kill > Bungalow Bill? (2x) > > The children asked him if to kill was not a sin > "Not when he looked so fierce", his mummy butted in > "If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him" > > All the children sing! > > Hey, Bungalow Bill > What did you kill > Bungalow Bill? (9x) (fade out)
Speaking as the only person here who seems to have actually *met* Nancy Cooke de Herrera and her son Rick Cooke, my impression when the song came out shortly after I met and interacted with them was that the Beatles just *nailed* it. *Especially* the bit about Nancy's behavior when someone challenged her hey-I'm-the-center-of-attention-here-not-you- ness or laughed at her son. The tiger hunt was pre-arranged. It was a tiger hunt. The guns they carried were their own, brought along with them to Teacher Training. They left the course *in the middle of it* to go on the hunt, because that was the only "time slot" they could book and the hunt meant more to them than Maharishi did. They *bragged* about this to a stranger (moi) before the Beatles song came out. Afterwards, they changed their story. That's who you're dealing with.
