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Guy FawkesJohn Thomason
00:00 / 03:23

I wrote this in 1992. A few lyrical tweaks to bring it up to date, but nothing much has changed in nearly thirty years.

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What does it take in this complacent state

Of self-satisfied Daily Mail readers?

Fingers so often burnt, you’d have thought we’d have learnt,

But still we let idiots lead us.

 

A cat’s arse, a balls, a pig’s ear,

Incompetent, smug, insincere,

The future is painfully clear,

Guy Fawkes had the right idea.

 

Sold us all down the river so they can deliver

Us into the wilderness gasping

For air, need a lifeline, while they toe the party line,

Crass, egotistical, grasping.

 

Chorus

 

Instrumental

 

They’re led by the science, but condone non-compliance

As long as you’re one of their own,

As the NHS drowns, they send in the clowns

And we follow into the unknown.

 

Chorus

 

Who gave the green light to this shower of shite?

Oh yes, it was us, I remember.

Nothing much left to lose, should be lighting the fuse –

Gunpowder, Fifth of November.

 

Chorus

 

Chorus

JT: vocals, acoustic guitar, uke bass, mandolin, tin whistles, side drum

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