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From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: L-O-L-A Lola
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 11:55:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 11:55:28 1985
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>    Lola was a woman.  The song opens:
>            "I met her in a club down in old Soho . . ."
>      later: "I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola"
>        and so on, using female pronouns throughout.  The line that Sam 
> quotes should be  "Now I'm not dumb but I can't understand 
>                    How she walked like a woman and talked like a man."
> 
>        I think.
> 

Disagree!  Lola is a transvestite.  At least all of us who were "in the
know" in the 60s thought so.  I say that the line "glad I'm a man, so is
Lola" doesn't mean Lola is "glad" that the singer is a man, but that Lola
is a man.  Anyone want to call Ray Davies to get the real story?

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