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They sCay immigrants steal the huFbcaps
Of the respected genAmtlemen
They Fsay it would be wine an' roses
DIf England were for Englishmen agaiCn
CWell I saw a dirty overcoat
At the Amfoot of the pillar of the road
G7Propped inside was an old man
Whom Amtime would not erode
When the Cnight was snapped by sirens
Those Amblue lights circled fast
The G7dancehall called for an' ambulance
The Ambars all closed up fast
My silence gazing at the ceiling
While roaming the single room
I thought the old man could help me
If he could explain the gloom
You really think it's all new
You really think about it too
The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
I'll tell you athing or two
CI missed the fourteen-eightFeen war
But Amnot Emthe sorrow afAmterwards
With my Dmfather dead and my mother ran Foff
My Cbrothers took the pay of hoodGs
The twenties turned the north was dead
The hunger strike came marching south
At the garden party not a word was said
The ladies lifted cake to their mouths
The Cnext war began and my ship sailed
AmWith battle orders writ in bed
In G7five long years of bullets and shells
We Amleft tem million dead
The Cfew returned to old Piccadily
We Amlimped around Leicster Square
The G7world was busy rebuilding itself
The Amarchitects could not care
But how could we know when I was young
All the canges that were to come?
All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
And now the terror of the scientific sun
There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
They taught you how to touch your cap
But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
England never closed this gap
So Cleave me now the moon Fis up
But reAmmemEmber all the tales AmI tell
The Dmmemories that you have dredged Fup
Are on Cletters forwarded from hell
The streets were by now deserted
The gangs had trudged off home
The lights clicked off in the bedsits
An' old England was all alone
Contribuição: rodrigo alan feltrin ferraz(email protected)
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