General Election
an old rebellion folk song
sing a-hey ho the wind and the rain
the tories are history and spring comes again
we’ll win back our freedom, we’ll take back control
just call the election, let’s go to the polls
the country was ruined, the country was wracked
our rivers polluted, our railways off track
our schools and our hospitals riven with strife
britannia sold cheaply and put to the knife
your monument in granite
was profits not planet
the narrowest of self-serving worlds you inhabit
where there was discord
you brought alarm
the knacker’s van parked up on ol’ maggie’s farm
the daily mail bleating
the telegraph tweeting
the backroom oligarchs meeting n’greeting
but despite all the slogans
the deals and the bungs
you still couldn’t stop the change that would come
sing a-hey ho the wind and the rain
the tories are history and spring comes again
we’ll win back our freedom, we’ll take back control
just call the election, let’s go to the polls …
(exit, jangling bells, clacking staves, spinning round in circles &c…)



