• TheTick@lemmy.world
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        The Four Lads sang it in 1958, They Might Be Giants covered in 1990. That said, both versions are really fun.

        Ulaanbaatar was Örgöö, now it’s Ulaanbaatar not Örgöö. Been a long time gone is Örgöö. How did Örgöö get the works, that’s nobodies business but the Mongols.

        Doesn’t flow at all… awe well

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          I actually knew about the Four Lads version, my mom had a 45 of it when I was a kid that she got when she was a teenager in the 50s. The TMBG album came out around the same time I found that 45, so it was a nice bit of serendipity. She also had another Four Lads 45 that had this really racist song where they were doing stereotypical Chinese accents, but the less said about that the better.

  • WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.com
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    Well I guess the capital of the United States is London? Capital of China, Koreas, is Tokyo. But wait, wasn’t Capital of China also London? 🤔

    London is the Capital of the world?

    Okay folks, it’s over. London is now the official Capital of Earth. The redcoats have won, we’ve lost this timeline. I gotta go… to dump some tea in the water.