The Lyric Chain

[beagle]

The rottenest bits of these islands of ours
We've left in the hands of three unfriendly powers
Examine the Irishman, Welshman or Scot
You'll find he's a stinker as likely as not

     The English the English the English are best
     I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

The Scotsman is mean as we're all well aware
He's boney and blotchy and covered with hair
He eats salty porridge, he works all the day
And hasn't got bishops to show him the way

     The English the English the English are best
     I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

The Irishman now our contempt is beneath
He sleeps in his boots and he lies through his teeth
He blows up policemen or so I have heard
And blames it on Cromwell and William the Third

     The English are moral the English are good
     And clever and modest and misunderstood

The Welshman's dishonest, he cheats when he can
He's little and dark more like monkey than man
He works underground with a lamp on his hat
And sings far too loud, far too often and flat

     The English the English the English are best
     I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

And crossing the channel one cannot say much
For the French or the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch
The Germans are German, the Russians are red
And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed

     The English are noble, the English are nice
     And worth any other at double the price

And all the world over each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice beforehand which spoils all the fun

     The English the English the English are best
     I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's just that they're foreign that makes them so mad
The English are all that a nation should be
And the pride of the English are Chipper and me

     The English the English the English are best
     I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest


Flanders & Swann - The English are Best

(Day late St Georges day special version).

[Swatopluk]

1. Oh Caledonia, we are your sons
Restore us once again
From your dreams awake
And we will pledge to thee


2. We fished stormy waters when fish were a-plenty
We ploughed the wild heathland till it bloomed like a rose
We built the great ships that sailed all the oceans
We toiled underground nature's treasures exposed
We've travelled the world, we've known kings, we've known princes
Discoursed with scholars, reasoned with fools
Oh we've served with distinction all down through the ages
But still in our homeland the foreigner rules


Chorus:
O we'll fight for what is right and the dawning of the day
When we'll rise again to win our claim for Scottish destiny


3. We're fierce as the badger when danger is threat'ning
We've the cunning and the guile that the fox calls his own
We've the reason that guides our great streams in their coursing
We're as stubborn as the headland that stands all alone
We can laugh with the devil, no one can laugh louder
Weep with the willow when our heart's sorely pressed
We're as gently and prickly as our own downy thistle
We can work with the hardest and play with the best


Chorus


4. But our land it is owned by the faceless investor
Our fish and our farming no longer our own
Our industry's ruined, our assets are squandered
Our souls are in hock and our children in pawn
It's no use in thinking it's too late for changing
No use in thinking that it's not up to you
You can teach, you can learn and to change things be willing
For you are your country and your country is you


Chorus


5. Too long we have blamed the foreign oppressor
Too long we have hoped for our hero's return
We've raised all our banners in poem and in legend
We've rested on laurels that turned into thorns
To dwell on past glories at the cost of invention
Is to squander the gifts that our forefathers gave
So take strength from the past but declare your intention
To change this dear land back to Scotland the Brave


Chorus


6. Oh Caledonia, we are your sons
And will again be free

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Now we just need a Welsh and an Irish proxy to complete the outfit 

[beagle]

Actually there are quite a few English who wouldn't mind putting a few more layers on Hadrian's Wall, but it won't happen all the time Labour ever want a majority at Westminster.  The Scots seem to have gone off the idea of independence since the banking fiasco too. You'd have to sell a lot of whisky to bail out RBS and more likely would turn the place into Iceland II.
We're all Airstrip 1 under the EU "not really a constitution at all" plans anyway, with them controlling the fishing and farming of the song, and it's Labour Scots being the ones putting the children in pawn.


So let's have a happy EU song 


They call this a community
I like to think of it as home
Arriving at the airport
I am going it alone
Ordering a boarding pass
Travelling in business class
This is the name of the game
I'm single, bilingual
Single, bilingual
I come to the community
From U.K. p.l.c.
Arriving at my hotel
there are faxes greeting me
Staying in a junior suite
So there's room to meet and greet
and after work explain how I feel
'Perdoneme me llamo Neil'
I'm single, bilingual
Single, bilingual
In Brussels, Bonn or Barcelona
I'm in demand and quite at home there
'Adelante!' Through the door
'Un momento, por favor'
This is what I get paid for
'Muchas gracias, senor'
I'm a player in the continental game
With unlimited expenses to reclaim
Information's easy
Tapping at my PC
That is the frame of the game
I'm single, bilingual
Single, bilingual
I'm single, bilingual
Single, bilingual
'Hay una discoteca por acqui?'

Pet Shop Boys - Single

[Griffin NoName]

Oh I dunno, sur le continent and abroad seems pretty dangerous to me.........   help help I am truly getting Beagleised


We come on the Sloop John B.
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau Town we did roam.
Drinking all night, got into a fight.
Well, I fell so broke up, I want to go home.

So hoist up the John B. sails,
See how the main-sail sets.
Call for the Captain ashore, let me go home
Let me go home, I wanna go home
Well, I feel so broke up, I wanna go home

The first mate, he got drunk.
Broke in the Captain's trunk.
Constable had to come and take him away.
Sheriff John Stone, why don't you leave me alone?
Well, I feel so broke up, I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B. sails.
See how the main-sail sets.
Call for the Captain ashore, let me go home
Let me go home, I wanna go home
Well, I feel so broke up, I wanna go home

The poor cook he took fits.
Through away all my grits.
Then he took and he ate up all of my corn.
Let me go home, why don't they let me go home?
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B. sails
See how the main sail sets
Call for the Captain ashore, let me go home
Let me go home, I wanna go home...

[Swatopluk]

Der super-perforator

solo:
you don't have to wait for later!
here's a new eliminator
ask your local weapontrader
for the super-perforator!

stress? just cool it!
here's a spezial bullit
put it in amagazine
boom a bang into your bean

chor:
You can call the operator
forthe super-perforator!
killing is our habit

solo:
make you wriggle like a rabbit
but before you die,my dear:

chor:
have a final glass of beer!
and before the break of dawn
we'll have you back where you belong

solo:
sprink-e-ling the lawn

chor:
bully-bang-bang/a-bang-boom-boom
meet your doom!call us soon!
the local weapon trader...

solo:
...with your super-perforator!

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[beagle]

Oh I dunno, sur le continent and abroad seems pretty dangerous to me.........   help help I am truly getting Beagleised

Swato's song made me nostalgic for the good old days when the Scots were ruled by English idiots, rather than the other way round.
EU elections soon; can express my contempt for the great Lib/Lab "not really a constitution at all" lie. If I can find a mountain high enough.


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Run rabbit, run rabbit
Run! Run! Run!
Run rabbit, run rabbit
Run! Run! Run!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Goes the farmer's gun
Run rabbit, run rabbit
Run! Run! Run!
Run rabbit, run rabbit
Run! Run! Run!
Don't give the farmer his fun!
Fun! Fun!
He'll get by without his rabbit pie
So run rabbit, run rabbit
Run!

Oh run away, run away, run away!
Run rabbit run!
Oh go away, go away, go away!
Go rabbit go
Better get started
Get on your feet
Better go in full retreat
Just look out
Be a little wise guy
Or you'll just be rabbit pie

Rabbit run away
Rabbit run, rabbit run run run away!
Run rabbit, run run rabbit, run away, run far away
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Goes the farmer's gun
Run away, run rabbit
Run run run away

Run rabbit, run rabbit
Run run run away
Don't give the farmer his fun today
He'll get by without his rabbit pie
So run rabbit, run run rabbit run!

Hey rabbit, hey rabbit!
Come right here
Hey rabbit, say rabbit!
Can't you hear?
You sure have to make a coat this year
So rabbit, oh rabbit
Come right here
Darn right, can't grab it
Oh my dear
What will I do for my furs this year?
Guess my last years coat
But dangnabbit, that rabbit won't come here

Rabbit, rabbit
Won't you run away
Don't give the farmer all his fun today
He'll get by without his rabbit pie
So run rabbit, run run rabbit, run!

Andrews Sisters (or was it John Updike?) - Run rabbit run.

[Swatopluk]

Bing bang diggiriggidong
First thing that I say after I wake up.
Bing bang diggiriggidong
I say those words before I go to sleep.

Get on up it's time to dance yeah.
It's so much fun being up on our feet.

So we go
Up up -- do the jump
Move around and clap your hands together.
Down down -- turn around
Having fun is what it's all about.

Bing bang diggiriggidong
Funny words I sing when I am dancing.
Bing bang diggiriggidong
Silly words that can mean anything.

Get on up it's time to dance yeah.
It's so much fun being up on our feet.

So we go
Up up -- do the jump
Move around and clap your hands together.
Down down -- turn around
Having fun is what it's all about.

Ooohh
One two -- me and you,
Move around and clap your hands together.
Three four -- on the floor,
Having fun is what it's all about.

Lazytown - Bing Bang

[Aphos]

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

[Spoken]
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance

[Sung]
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance
Danc¨¦e!

We can go when we want to
The night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry
Say, we can act if want to
If we don't nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile

[Refrain]
I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

We can dance if we want to
We've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it
Everything'll work out right
I say, we can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine

[Refrain]

Is it safe to dance, oh is it safe to dance [6x]
Is it safe to dance

Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

[beagle]

Radio, live transmission.
Radio, live transmission.

Listen to the silence, let it ring on.
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun.
We would have a fine time living in the night,
Left to blind destruction,
Waiting for our sight.

And we would go on as though nothing was wrong.
And hide from these days we remained all alone.
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time.
Touching from a distance,
Further all the time.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio ...

Well I could call out when the going gets tough.
The things that we've learnt are no longer enough.
No language, just sound, that's all we need know,
To synchronise love to the beat of the show.

And we could dance.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio


Joy Division - Transmission

[Griffin NoName]

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that shes half crazy
But thats why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from china
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That youve always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For youve touched her perfect body with your mind.

And jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said all men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe youll trust him
For hes touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now suzanne takes you hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From salvation army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For shes touched your perfect body with her mind


Leonard Cohen ~ Suzanne

[Swatopluk]

Sails she swiftly from the harbour
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Like a lone gull before the storm winds
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Kismuils' galley goes a-reiving
Sails she swiftly to Isla's shore
To isles of daring o' deeds and laughter
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee

Through the moonlight she lays her coursing
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Far beneath her the grey-blue limpets
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Spoils of glory is her venture
Deeds of valour in brightest dawn
On through Mulla to fair green Isla
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee

Turns she homeward through dancing sunlight
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
From soft green southland to northern dark night
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Scars of battle are on her timbers
Grain and cattle for hungry homes
Hardy winter's toll avoided
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee

Now the harpist weaves his story
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Laments the heroes of former glory
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee
Kismuil's galley safely home now
Sleeps she softly like a swan
No dreams of war now her wings are folded
Fa-la-lee-ho fa-la-lee

[beagle]

Big girl in the red dress
She's just trying to impress us
And she's got the barley fever
But she doesn't make a sound
She's just hanging around

Down the Court Road early
With the hustlers big 'n burly
There's a million of 'em selling
And the buyers can be found
They're just hanging around

Christ has told his mother
Christ he told her not to bother
'Cos he's alright in the city
'Cos he's high above the ground
He's just hanging around

One of 'em comes closer
Got a monkey on his shoulder
And the monkey's getting grinner
But his eyes are on the ground
He's just hanging around

I'm moving in the Coleherne
With the leather all around me
And the sweat is getting steamy
But their eyes are on the ground
They're just hanging around

Christ has told his mother
Christ he told her not to bother
'Cos he's alright in the city
'Cos he's high above the ground
He's just hanging around


The Stranglers - Hanging Around

[Swatopluk]

Put your hand on my shoulder
Hold me in your arms, baby
Squeeze me also tight...Show me
Show me that you love me too

Put your lips next to mine, dear
Won't you kiss me once, baby
Just a kiss good night...Maybe
Maybe you and I will fall in love

People say that love's a game
A game you just can't win
If there's a way I'll find it someday
And then this fool will rush in

Put your hand on my shoulder
Whisper in my ear, baby
Words i want to hear...Tell me
Tell me that you love me too

Put your hand on my shoulder
Whisper in my ear, baby
Words I want to hear...Baby
Put your hand on my shoulder

Paul Anka

[beagle]

There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.
There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to look, time to care,
Someday!
Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere.

There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're half way there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow,
Someday,
Somewhere!


PSB - Somewhere (Bernstein/Sondheim)

[Griffin NoName]

When all the world is a hopeless jumble
And the raindrops tumble all around
Heaven opens a magic lane
When all the clouds darken up the skyway
There's a rainbow highway to be found
Leading from your window pane
To a place behind the sun
Just a step beyond the rain

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow
Why oh why can't I?

lyrics by EH Harburg and music by Harold Arlen ~ Wizard of Oz

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