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Thread #88778 Message #1669068
Posted By: GUEST,Hrothgar at work
15-Feb-06 - 03:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: If We Did to Their Daughters (C Tawney)
Subject: ADD: If We Did To Their Daughters - Tawney
If We Did To Their Daughters (Cyril Tawney)
They're gnawin' at the moorland and they're nibblin' at the shore There's scarce a week goes by without they've cornered something more It seems they've heard the proverb and they're taking its advice If a loaf's already cut who's going to miss another slice
Chorus: If we did to their daughters what they're doing to our land Every barricade in Bumbledom would bloomin' soon be manned And every dad in Whitehall would come marching gun in hand If we did to their daughters what they're doing to our land
Some men catch (????????) you with a line and some men with a snare But others do their poaching from a leather covered chair The gamekeeper is on their side likewise the legal men And the squire he shrugs his shoulders in the halls of Number 10
Make a mark upon that map, we mustn't be delayed And pass across that rubber stamp there's progress to be made To hell with those petitions, we've no time to read 'em all Just pack 'em up and stack 'em in the toilet down the hall
There's twenty miles of shoreline in the town where I was born But I won't walk around it 'til the willow bears a thorn They've left us scarce a quarter where a man can wander free Yes, there's water, water everywhere but not for you and me
The wealth of Britain seems to need a smoke infested sky You can't have gold without the grime has always been the cry But I once met a country chap who opened up my eyes The piggery's just as clean, he said, as him who tends the sty
When our children come to curse us won't we all deserve our share If we leave them with a legacy of diesel laden air Don't pass your rucksacks on to them, they'll have nowhere to hike And they'll put on our old videos just to see what trees were like