Subject: RE: Songs about Nelson or Wellington From: GUEST Date: 25 May 15 - 12:40 PM

I remember Pete Coe singing what I like to think is the shortest song ever:
The revolution has begun
So I'll go home and get my gun
And shoot the Duke of Wellington.

Jim Boyes extended this fragment into The Levolution, released on Where You Belong; A Song Cycle for Belper by Coope Boyes & Simpson No Masters NMCD15 (CD, UK, 1999)

The Levolution is begun
And Belper's where this song is sung
So I'll go home and get me gun
And shoot the Duke of Wellington

Chorus; We do not hear the bugle's note
We haven't even got the vote
So for the likes of you and me
The government opposed must be

Chorus

We've had enough of kings and queens
Our jobs are taken by machines
Our children starve for want of bread
Pray tell me how they should be fed

Chorus

Pentrich isn't far away
Where those poor lads did sport and play
Betrayed they were in a cruel game
And, Oliver, we know your name

Chorus

Don't look to us for new recruits
For we are not just slavish brutes
Until you let us have our say
We're over Cow Hill and far away

Chorus