I Wanna Do You Slowly

Keating! The Musical

All lyrics written and copyrighted by Casey Bennetto, 2004.

Annotations written by Loki Carbis, 2009. The assistance and advice of Casey Bennetto in the creation of these annotations is gratefully acknowledged.
This page is intended for informational purposes only.

Keating actually said this, and in response to Hewson’s jibes about calling an election. However, the context was somewhat different from that of this song. The full exchange ran:
“Hewson: I ask the Prime Minister: if you are so confident about your view of Fightback, why will you not call an early election?
Keating: The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm out of this load of rubbish over a number of months. There will be no easy execution for you. You have perpetrated one of the great mischiefs on the Australian public with this thing, trying to rip away our social wage, trying to rip away the Australian values which we built in our society for over a century…“Keating: I wanna do you slowly – holy moly -
I wanna turn you inside out, upside down and roundabout
Wrap you up like ravioli – roly poly -
I wanna make you mine
All good things take time…

“Dear Boy” was one of Keating’s favourite ways to address Hewson in Parliament, intended as a patronising comment about their relative levels of experience.Dear boy, you know I’ve got your measure
I’ll take my time to take my pleasure
Well I’m gonna steam you like a lentil
I can be so soft and gentle
Boy, I know you want it fast
But I
Keating / Hewson: I wanna make it last, ohh

I wanna do you slowly – holy moly -
I wanna turn you inside out, upside down and roundabout
Roll you round like a cannoli – roly poly -
Then it’ll feel so right
On election night
On election night
On election night
On election night
On election nighttttttt…

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