1.Guy
Meeting in the Duck and Drake
A group of men planned to blow up the state
A catholic insurrection, a Jesuit rebellion
Backed by France and Spain
Remember, remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot
Guy Fawkes
Made his friends and enemies
Fighting in the low countries
Didn't want to separate
His politics and faith
But he hated the king
Betrayed in a letter to Lord Monteagle
They found Guy under the House of Lords.
For two days he was tortured
Then he was hung, drawn and quartered
They put his head on a pole.
2.Are You Concentrating？
1900 and the battle for South Africa
The British needed a plan so turned to Lord Kitchener.
'Scorch the earth!' he cried so they burnt the crops and cattle
To force the Boers to come out and face them in a battle.
As usual this British plan was pretty short sighted
Women left to starve, while the men went into hiding.
All those who were left to rot across the land,
Were rounded up by British troops and put into camps.
Are you concentrating？ And listening？
Is this internment, and are you starving？
Because moving people and imprisoning,
Is just what we do, it's our policy to win.
Because we're the British Empire don't ya know？
We put the 'C' in Colonial.
We'll take you land and your freedom.
We had death camps before anyone.
26,000 died in internment.
From a lack of sanitation and under-nourishment.
And when they're let out don't forget they've nothing left.
But they can deal with it as it's their own bloody mess.
3.Peasants Revolt
Wat Tyler was a man from English history,
And he had a dream to set the English peasants free.
Fuelled by the rise of the poll tax under Edward the third,
The corruption of the nobles, the corruption of the church.
When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who then was the gentleman？
When social orders are questioned,
There's hope to break the social trends.
Were there any class distinctions,
Back in the Garden of Eden？
I'm not a religious man,
But I think the point still stands.
Jack Straw marched from Essex, Tyler marched from Kent
Stirring up the serfs wherever they went.
When they reached London they converged upon Blackheath
And listened to a sermon from John Ball that mad old priest (He
said)：
When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who then was the gentleman？
When social orders are questioned,
There's hope to break the social trends.
Were there any class distinctions,
Back in the Garden of Eden？
I'm not a religious man,
But I think the point still stands.
Wat Tyler met the king in the middle of London town,
The mayor drew his sword and he cut poor Tyler down.
And with him died the hopes and dreams and sparked many
rebellions.
Across East England people died and yet nothing got changed.
4.Miners Strike
1984, the year I was born
A turbulent time, to strike if you mine.
Industrial action, is just a reaction
From Kent the North-East, Yorkshire and the Valleys.
It's hanging over us, created by the pit closures
And Maggie got her way.
'The Lady's not for turning' on the enemy she says within
And the people don't eat today.
The people are freezing cold today.
Poverty stricken, communities are ruined
Families go hungry, well this is modern Britain!
25 years later, people are still bitter
Understandably so, we now import cheap coal
It's hanging over us, created by the pit closures
And Maggie got her way.
It's economic ruin so we're stopping milk for children
And the children don't eat today.
The children are freezing cold today.
5.The Battle Of Cable Street
1936, Europe's facing fascists.
England has Mosley and his black shirted army.
A provocative march through Jewish east London
Protected by police, defied by the population.
We believe in equality, every man is free... marching as we sing
old songs.
'We'll hang Oswald Mosley on a sour apple tree... when the red
revolution comes'.
'I was moved to tears to see bearded Jews and Irish Catholic
dock workers,
standing up together against the hated black shirts.
I shall never forget that as long as I live,
How working-class people could get together to oppose the evil
of racism.'
6.Peterloo
If France was lost at Waterloo, then what was lost at Peterloo？
The innocence of justice turned to dust.
Depression after European wars, exasperated by the corn laws,
People went to hear that radical Hunt.
And what is that you say？ 'Well, times have changed today.'
'We no longer have to make political fights.'
But you are only arguing to justify your apathy
Which dishonours those who died to bring you these rights.
St Peter's field, was the starting point that day.
A building block, for 100 years of pain.
It's not that hard, for you to take it for granted.
It's not that easy, to find a better way, to find a better way.
It was a struggle to gain suffrage, especially for the English
80 thousand turned out on that day
the working class of Manchester and the surrounding area
went to protest their right to have a say.
But the local magistrate sent the soldiers out to play
Drunk, with sabres drawn they made their charge
400 injured, 15 died as people fled and tried to hide
the English soldier's English massacre.
7.What The Romans Did For Us
What the Romans did for us. Please tell me what did the Roman's
do for us？
Adam Hart Davis thinks they're bloody great,
Because he ignores the suffering, censorship and hate.
In AD 43, invasion of authority
Imperial destruction of a local way of life.
Keep your buildings made of concrete, and hobnailed, sandaled
feet
Out of our country, keep your hands off our wives!
They burned our community, sold us into slavery,
Gave us new technology in how to kill each other.
They stamped out our faith, and our religious places
And made us all pay tribute to a foreign dictator.
The nail in the coffin on what they did for us,
Is that after they'd left we went back to how it was.
Adam Hart Davis thinks they're bloody great,
Because he ignores the suffering, censorship and hate.
Adam Hart Davis thinks they're bloody great,
I don't care get the hell out of my face.
8.The Crimean War
Phil challenged me to write a song about the Crimean War.
I didn't know nothing so I did some research into the cause.
It's a confusing mix of European conflict politics.
Religious indignation, from the Black Sea to the Baltic.
And they're dying for nothing
Because they're fighting another stupid war
Of disasters
Caused by the masters
The orders of the officers
The Crimean War.
The siege of Sevastopol
Balaclava, naval wars.
The Light Brigade's descent to hell
The Crimean War.
There was modern technology for the first modern war.
Like blind bombardments causing the first modern death tolls.
But with ancient tactics like the cavalry charge,
The armies of Europe bled their blood as they learnt their
lesson hard.
9.The Game
1841 did we go marching to the drum
Into Afghanistan, the British army dealt a lesson bad.
16,000 troops and hangers on, reduced to simply 1,
Who made it out alive to Pakistan.
In 1878-80 Kabul loses most of its territory,
As well as the management of foreign affairs.
A game that's played by other countries, forces the loss of
state policies,
A buffer between the lion and the bear.
Afghanistan! The Soviets, the Taliban
Mujihadeen, coalition of the willing.
Afghanistan! 40 years of war,
Will they face another 100 more？
The last time was in 1919, years before any actual fighting
It became an obvious war for India.
But the British planes and bombs attacked the people of Kabul
And they were slaughtered by the fire from the air.
Afghanistan! The Soviets, the Taliban
Mujihadeen, coalition of the willing.
Afghanistan! 40 years of war,
Will they face another 100 more？
Then in 2001, we got the call up to the gun
We're gonna fight this war on terror!
But after 8 bloody years of civilian tears
We seem to have made a significant error.
Because there's no lessons learnt, but the game still goes on.
10.When That Great Ship Went Down
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
The cold ocean floor will now be their home
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was on one Monday morning, about one o'clock
When the great Titanic began to reel and rock
Well people began to cry, oh, Lord, I don't wanna die
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when that great ship went down
When the ship left England heading for far a shore
The rich declared they would not ride with the poor
So they sent the poor below, they were the first to go
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
The cold ocean floor will now be their home
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad when that great ship went down
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when that great ship went down
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