Monty Python Songs - Bruce's Philosophers Song Lyrics

Monty Python - Bruce's Philosophers Song

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Album: Matching Tie And Handkerchief
Released: 1973

Bruce's Philosophers Song Lyrics

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
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was 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"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed

Writer/s: CHAPMAN, GRAHAM / CLEESE, JOHN / GILLIAM, TERRY / IDLE, ERIC / JONES, TERRY / PALIN, MICHAEL EDWARD
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bruce's Philosophers Song

This is a comedy song about how most Western philosophies were formed. It asserts that most of the people who came up with these philosophies were drunk.

Eric Idle wrote this and sang lead. Most of the group's fans feel that Idle was the best vocalist of the group. (thanks, Jeff - Haltom City, TX, for above 2)