Ironbug
Red In The Morning
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Join date : 2011-05-17
 |  Subject: Line from American Slang  Tue May 17, 2011 7:49 am | |
| Ok.. I have a quick couple of questions, What exactly, are the lines : And you can dance with the queen if you need,
And she will always keep your cards
Close to her heart..Actually about? Thanks in advance  X | |
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steady now steady now
The Navesink Banks
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| | Subject: Re: Line from American Slang Tue May 17, 2011 9:22 am | |
| - Ironbug wrote:
- Ok.. I have a quick couple of questions,
What exactly, are the lines :
And you can dance with the queen if you need,
And she will always keep your cards
Close to her heart..
Actually about? Thanks in advance
X It's an allusion to the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', who is foul tempered and decrees death sentences at the slightest offense with the words "Off with their heads!"; the lines thereby relate to the line "our fathers have died", which is an allusion to the American Founding Fathers, whose ideals have all but died in present day America (the image conjured up is that of the heads of the Founding Fathers have been chopped off). In that context it is worth noting that Donald Trump comes from Queens. It all relates. | |
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