Anarchy In The U.K.

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 28 08:34:01 PST 1999


Rob Schaap wrote:


>I've never seen the lyrics, but I've sung 'em often enough (I find lyrics
>come to me only after the eigth pint, so I may about to talk crap).
>Anyway, I was always singing about a council *tenancy*?

I always thought that too. Isn't "council housing" Britspeak for a public housing project, and a "council tenancy" would be the state of living there? Though Dennis' reading is ingenious.

Doug



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