The closing track to Dire Straits' third studio album “Making Movies”, it’s a fun little song about homosexual people and their day to day life from an outside view.
Urban Dictionary: Les Boys
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Urban Dictionary
A polite, yet condescending, phrase from the 1980's to describe homosexual males, es...
[Chorus 1]
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
[Verse 1]
They're not afraid now
A disco bar in Germany
Les boys are glad to be
Upon parade now
Les boys got leather straps
Les boys got SS caps
But they got no gun now
Get dressed up get a little risque
Got to do a little S & M these days
It's all in fun now
[Chorus 2]
Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their Mercedes Benz
To a disco bar in old Munchen
[Verse 2]
They get the jokes that the DJ makes
They get nervous and they make mistakes
They're bad for business
Some tourists take a photograph
Les boys don't get one laugh
He says they're useless
[Chorus 2]
Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their Mercedes Benz
To a disco bar in old Munchen
[Bridge]
Late at night when they've gone away
Les boys dream of Jean Genet
High heel shoes and a black beret
And the posters on the wall that say
[Chorus 1][repeat until fade]
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys do cabaret
Les Boys was written by Mark Knopfler.
Les Boys was produced by Jimmy Iovine & Mark Knopfler.
Dire Straits released Les Boys on Fri Oct 17 1980.