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Hi all,
in this song, there is a verse:
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Can anyone enlighten me as to what the highlighted words stand for? All the other allusions are obvious, but I can't crack this one. Thanks!
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Ahh...
And I was trying to somehow connect this to medieval bards/ministrels
Is it just cockney slang or general term in English-speaking countries? Edit: I mean 'troubadours' referring to doormen?
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I could be way off base here, but it could be a reference to the Thuggee religious cult in India. The Thuggees would ritually strangle travellers they caught in the Indian countryside. It is believed that they were responsible for millions of deaths. The Thuggees believed that each death would prevent the goddess Kali from returning for 1000 years. I'd guess that keeping her away would be a good thing! The British suffered their share of deaths, and by the end of the 19th century, had crushed the movement.
Maybe I missed it. The European involvement in India goes back a long way!
Edit: European involvement in India does go back a long way, but Bombay was a creation of the British, so it had to be during the time of the Raj.
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Thank you everyone!
I actually needed it for a class... prof said he was looking for the answer for some years now. I'll present him with all these (very plausible) theories. If anyone else has stuff to add, I'll be grateful
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Originally Posted by Vicious Tyrant
I'll be glad to help you here.
You see, Bombay is a brand of whiskey and killed refers to getting drunk. Now, a "Troubador" is like a doorman, but he's drunk, see? So the guy, who's like, the devil, is laying a "trap", which is a way of saying he's trying to get through the door. So its like a "trap" that the guy's drunk - not the devil guy, the doorman guy, except he's more like a sneaky trash man than a doorman, as such. So, anyway, the guy can't get through the door, but that's really a cockney slang way of saying he's trying to drink the whiskey, which is, of course, made by Bombay.
Hope that helps....
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No offense, but you're kidding, right? As far as I know there is no such thing as Bombay whiskey and a troubadour is certainly not like a doorman.
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Originally Posted by dknightd
Troubadours were travelling musicians in the middle ages who would travel from France trying to reach out to Europe and Asia of Gods true message but were often killed by Church officials or others before they could finish thier journey.
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Any idea why Church officials would want to prevent the spread of Christianity to Asia?
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Originally Posted by zotjen
No offense, but you're kidding, right? As far as I know there is no such thing as Bombay whiskey and a troubadour is certainly not like a doorman.
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Well there is Bombay gin (Wikipedia has it). The troubadour = doorman bit is a bit puzzling, hence I asked again (maybe I'm just not smelling sarcasm or something
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