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Philosophers Song

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DImmanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely Astable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the Dtable
David Hume could out-consume
Whilhelm Friedrich GHegel
And AWittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as DSchlagel
There's nothin' ANieizsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himDself was B7permanently E7pissed
John Stuart Mill of his own free will
After half a pint o' shandy became particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
`I drink therefore I am'
But Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed

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Philosophers Song

by Monty Python

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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant

Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar

Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out-consume

Whilhelm Friedrich Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine

Who was just as sloshed as Schlagel

There's nothin' Nieizsche couldn't teach ya

'Bout the raising of the wrist

D B7 E7

Socrates himself was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill of his own free will

After half a pint o' shandy became particularly ill

Plato they say, could stick it away

Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle

Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart

`I drink therefore I am'

But Socrates himself is particularly missed

A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed

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