From what I have observed over the years, one of the things in the world that annoys lefties more than almost anything else in the world is a somewhat drunk and somewhat old guy singing My Way, the song made famous by Frank Sinatra.
The reason people sing it is because they understand freedom and what freedom is all about. The right to do things your way, your pride when you have, the fact that this will involve mistakes, but so what? That’s what the song is all about and we all know it.
And that’s why lefties hate it so. For them, it is the sound of defeat. It is the sound of people who have consciously and deliberately turned their backs on lefty bullshit and have decided to do things their way, as often as not with their own money.
Ask yourself this. How often do they get drunk and sing this song at NGO/tranzi conferences? Not often is my guess, or if so only with post-modern irony, which doesn’t count.
So, thanks to Dave Barry for linking to this story, which shows that in the Philippines people take this song seriously, just as people do everywhere else. Basically someone wasn’t singing the song very well, and was stabbed to death.
And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain. …
He sang more truly than he knew.
I prefer the Sex Pistol’s version to Frankie’s.
Today I killed a cat, oh no, much more than this I killed it my way 😉
I thought the Sex Pistols were lefties. However on the other hand Johnny Rotten is a multi-millionaire, so my guess is he was doing a con job on the gullible.
Are you sure that “lefties” don’t like singing “My way”?
To test this out I collared several at the local university and after I had helped them remember the words they were singing like canaries… so it’s obviously not a genetic thing.
Maybe it was the semi automatic I was holding.
I dream of a future where everyone who sings My Way is jabbed with pointy things until he stops or gives up the ghost. Three cheers for the Philippines.
Your joking aren’t you. I’d say he was one of us, a capitalist anarchissst.
What is a ‘tranzi’ conference?
S. Weasel,
Please get your priorities straight. First we go after the “Love Me Tender” singers. Then the “My Way” singers.
Sorry, David Crawford, But “My Way” is top of the karaoke charts worldwide and on everyone’s death list. In SE Asia, you can’t help it being borne aggressively into your eardrums by the heavy tropical night air. Next is “Feelings” and “I Gotta Be Me”. “Love Me Tender” is nowhere.
This is sick, Brian. Your initial observation about the libertarian theme of My Way may be quite valid. But then using it to justify a heinous criminal act absolutely made me wretch. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I’m spooked by this because I unaccountably caught myself singing this in the shower this morning, but surely lefties hate this song for the same reason that anyone might: it sucks. I don’t see any reason politicise anyone’s dislike of it and neither do I accept that people sing it because they “understand freedom”. They sing it because they’re drunk and maybe because it’s the only song on the kareoke menu that they know.
Besides, the melody is in fact French (not to mention that one of the co-lyricists is Canadian born), so lefties may even have reason to love it.
I hope no one will think me a lefty if I say that I find the lyrics a lame fantasy of self-congratulation, well suited to being sung by maudlin drunks. I’d like to think that there are better hymns to freedom out there…
Good warning words from Touson. A bit sad and maudlin to be a real hymn to freedom.
And suppose those Filipinos were not people caring deeply about this song being sung well, but lefties?
Shouldn’t be too hard to come up with a Tranzi-approved version:
We have a rule for that
You Brits do things in a bizarre way
So now just shut your trap
And do it Our Way.