Try this version of Cwm Rhondda - an Aussie political parody by John Dengate about our pollies and their disgraceful treatment of refugees in this country. I was actually asked to sing this at a church service at Snalbans folk festival about a week ago. It went down rather well:

THE REFUGEES' REVENGE             John Dengate

Tune: Bread of Heaven / Cwm Rhondda

Mr Howard, you'll have no passport
When you walk through death's dark vale.
Lost and frightened, you will travel
Buffeted by storm and gale.

CHORUS   Mr Howard and Mr Ruddock,
                   When your bodies are deceased,
                   You'll be locked in hell and not released.

Mr Ruddock, power will not save you
When you cross the River Styx,
Nor your specious rhetoric and cunning
Nor your ruthless politics.

CHORUS

Speaking from the throne of heaven,
God will weigh your evil deed.
"Howard and Ruddock, I deny you status,
Never now, will you be freed."

CHORUS

You will weep in hell's detention centre
For your cruel and heartless crime.
Cries for mercy endlessly ignored:
Eternity's a long, long time.

CHORUS