Brexit Blues

from Utopia by Martin & Bell

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Like the oft quoted Tony Benn, my old dad, who died in 1992, was a lifelong opponent of the EEC. But that was then. Not EVERYONE who wants a big hard Brexit is a cowboy, charlatan, thief, racist, blinkered.
But it often helps.
So without getting overly-political, fact from fiction, you’re either on or off the side of a slogan on a political bus, this is a rather partisan little piece? Indeedy.
So, ya’ll know what to do - chin up, nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel. And don’t forget the stiff upper lip, phellas!

lyrics

BREXIT BLUES
The future’s here. Let me mark your card.

They’re gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.

Vegetables will be rotting in the fields

They’ll be shortages in the health service, and at our meals.
 Movement, it won’t come for free,

And the butter will melt before we get to tea.

The Shropshire lad and the Wilmslow lass

Will find they’ve come to a sorry pass.

Cheap travel, it won’t be accessible, and that’s not fair.
 But you can say goodbye to Ryan Air.

The future’s here. Let me mark your card

We’re gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.
They’ll lose subsidies in various manners

As our new shock troops unleash their banners.

A nation sold to David, Boris and Liam

Will experience a spiralling ceaseless dream

Of love, hope, talent and open hearts.

Lions drawn by donkeys will be put behind the carts.
 We’ll see Nigel grinning in his stall
 Counting his big MEP pension

While the rest of us get bugger all.
 Stagnation and despond will be everywhere,
 Like we will have a fucking care.

The future’s here. Let me mark your card.
 We’re gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.
Britons do as Britons can.
 That’s every woman and every man.
 We enjoy the damp and the winter chill
 And the exertion of our own free will.

Forty eight bows to fifty two,

That’s better known as the will of the people to you.
 You’ll only get to see the light when there’s been a crack.
 So rejoice, because we’ve got our country back.
 Oranges don’t grow on St Stephen’s Green,

And Arlene’s fuel bill is not to be seen.

Dodds, McManus, all those useless clowns
 Lording it up as their country drowns.

But rejoice, fill yourselves with glee,

Mrs May found the money tree.

The economy tanks, the firms go bust.
Rejoice because in Boris and Michael,
 David and Liam we trust.

The future’s here. Let me mark your card.
 They’re gambling on England’s future
 Down in Ireland’s graveyard.
 Gambling on England’s future
 Down in Ireland’s graveyard.
Vegetables will be rotting in the fields

They’ll be shortages in the health service, and at our meals.
 Movement, it won’t come for free,

And the butter will melt before we get to tea.

The Shropshire lad and the Wilmslow lass

Will find they’ve come to a sorry pass.

Cheap travel, it won’t be accessible, and that’s not fair.
 But you can say goodbye to Ryan Air.

The future’s here. Let me mark your card.

We’re gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.

Gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.

They’re gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.

Gambling on England’s future

Down in Ireland’s graveyard.

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from Utopia, released February 1, 2019
Gavin Martin - Words, Martin Bell - Music

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The Headstrong Mining Company is the latest incarnation of the creative partnership of Multi-Instrumentalist Martin Bell ( Ex. The Wonder Stuff) and Spoken Word Artist / Music Critic Gavin Martin (NME, Daily Mirror). The dashing pair also go under the names "Martin & Bell", as well as "Bell and the Irishman. ... more

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