Story Behind The Song
What organization was more homophobic than the FBI in the 1940s? Why the Reich, that's what. And yet, according to history, both FBI director J Edgar Hoover and Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering had their shadowshide. This song asks the question, what if they actually met some gray evening for a night of debauchery? Who would have dared squeal on them? Who reveals the perversions of power?
Song Description
Reichsmarshall and FBI director in (probably) fictional meeting. Which one's in drag?
Song Length |
2:24 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Folk - General |
Lyrics
The Night Hermann Goering met J Edgar Hoover
Copyright 2005 by Mike Murray
The night Hermann Goering met J Edgar Hoover
Who was the winner and who was the loser?
Who wore the leather pants, who wore the dress?
What did they talk about, oh, who will confess ?
Mysteries of midnight,
facts we don't know
scenes where we turn away
Places we don't go
Sounds of the silence
Tales we don't tell
People we don't know we know
And Maybe just as well
Father Henry never mentions a long ago September
If you ask him about it, he'll say he can't remember
The face in his memory, restless and raw
Crying out for justice in the court of Bernard Law
CHORUS
Those who inspired us, those whom we feared
Those who were holy, those who were weird
Faces run together in the shadows of the night
Yearning for the morning, crying for the light
The night Hermann Goering met J Edgar Hoover
Who was the shaker and who was the mover?
Who wore the leather pants, who wore the dress?
What did they talk about, oh, who will confess ?