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My bro sent us an amazingly cool CD: Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us. It's a collection of the original versions of tunes that were later recorded by the Bonzos, mostly British music hall stuff from the 20s and 30s. So much fun. Here's a review (scroll about halfway down). One thing I noticed was that a line in "Ali Baba's Camel" which I'd always assumed to be a late 60s variation added by Viv Stanshall ("out for what we all want, lots of LSD") was in fact in the 1932 version by the Rhythmic Troubadours. Somewhat perplexing, as LSD wasn't synthesized until 1938. Fortunately, a bit of googling revealed that someone else had already asked this question. And found the answer. Apparently "LSD" was period slang for pounds, shillings and pence.

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