The Sun Has Got His Hat On

[@IO23777]

Roasting peanuts was he ?

[@PiccDan]

According to Stephen Fry’s 1980s lyrics, yes!

[@drsunshine1959]

I love this song. It's so much fun to sing...if only I could perform it with an orchestra like this!

[@peterroyce3487]

Roasting peanuts. OMG 😮😮😮😮😮 Thats even more insulting.

[@JazzVideoMike]

Wonderful - many thanks for sharing it with us

[@BruceKaplan]

The song was originally recorded by Henry Hall with Val Rosing on vocals. He was my father in law, and I am his official biographer and archivist. I am sure if he were alive today, he would not sing the song as written. In his later years, he was a great fan of black musicians and would not disrispect them with the lyric in question. The historical accuracy argument does not hold water. There are many things that were considered acceptable in the 1930s that we would not tolerate today. When we (his daughter and I) released a Val Rosing's greatest CD in 2010, we replaced the offending line with the saxophone from the later repeat of that section. We took some heat, but I still stand by that decision,.

[@DanielJacksonMusic]

It’s ok, it was acceptable in 1932

[@claireclaire238]

The Marxist social engineers want everything to be offensive to divide and conquer.

[@M1m1-505]

This song: *plays* Everyone: This is amazing Walten Files fans: Hahaha blue Bunny and Mario looking animatronic go brrrrrrrrrr.

[@RubtsoffAccordion]

I agree. I'm sorry that Walten Files fans everywhere write about how they found out about this song.

[@M1m1-505]

@@RubtsoffAccordion lol I am actually one but you are right though.

[@roaringtwenties6215]

BRAVO MAESTRO!!!!!!!!!

[@PiccDan]

Grazie mille!!

[@RubberChickenFilms]

Great cover, Michael and all!

[@PiccDan]

Thank you!

[@garyhosty9874]

Outrageous, disgraceful...how could the Sun which is really really hot...and big...wear a hat ?? absurd. ban it

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

LOL

[@robertmorgan5173]

Great fun. Glad to see the offending bits of the lyrics excised.

[@barrycrump6189]

Why censor the lyrics? Pandering to the woke culture.

[@PiccDan]

The replacement line, by Stephen Fry, was written in the 1980s, which is pre-'wokeness' I believe?

[@theopelgrave5842]

@@PiccDan "Woke" appears to predates the 1980's. "Among the earliest uses of the idea of wokeness as a concept for Black political consciousness came from Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey,[4] who wrote in 1923, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!"[4][7]" "Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, used the phrase "stay woke" as part of a spoken afterward to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys"...(4)" "The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled "If You're Woke You Dig It" by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley, describing the appropriation of Black slang by white beatniks.[8]" The quotes are from Wikipedia so take them with a pinch of salt. The New York Times article is real but behind a paywall.