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South African

South African girls are more scantily clad,
Scantily clad;
Scantily clad;
South African girls are more scantily clad.
It may be the heat
Or it may be a fad
But they're out in the street
With skirt at mid-thigh
They're completely complete
On their shiny-shaved legs which are perfectly clean
They've just stepped out
Of a girls' magazine
With pimple-free skin
And deodorised pad
South African girls are more scantily clad.

South African men are more lightly attired,
Lightly attired;
Lightly attired;
South African men are more lightly attired...
Safari-suit trousers
Stretched tight on the bum
(Triangle of chest,
Small flash of tum.)
Hairy legs stretching from flank down to shin
South African men are all hair and skin.
Which begins to explain
(With a wink and a grin)
Why South African men are so highly desired:
South African Men are more lightly attired.

South African girls means girls that are white.
Got that all right?
Girls that are white.
Which means girls that are rich.
(A statistical cert
That that whispering skirt
Is fresh off the peg
Or else ironed by the maid.)
And although each limb
Is so finely displayed
South African girls are often afraid;
But they know that not thinking
Will make it all right...
South African girls means girls that are white.

South African men crack their voices like whips
Voices like whips
(There's a sneer on their lips)
South African men crack their voices like whips.
Authority's bluster
So wholly endears
These men to themselves
That it smothers the fears
That slither like serpents
Through the rooms of the lives
Of South African men and their manicured wives.
But when, in bright daylight
Complacency slips
Their hands creep down to the guns on their hips.
South African men crack their voices like whips.