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Thread #11457   Message #3660655
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
15-Sep-14 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Butcher's Apron (Irish Rebel)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER'S APRON (Irish Rebel)
Sort of late to be replying but if my cut and paste works:

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Where is the flag of England? Go North, South, East or West.
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed.
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare.
You'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there!

It waits upon blazing hovels where African victims died,
to be shot the explosive bullets or wretchedly starve and die,
and where the pirate hammers the isles of southern seas,
at the peak of the hellish vessel the English flag is free!

The Maori often cursed it with his bitterness dying breath,
and the Arab hath hissed his hatred as he spat at its folds in death,
and the helpless Hindu feared it, and the Kenyan did the same,
and the Irish blood hath stained it, with a deep indelible stain.

Where is the flag of England? Go North, South, East or West.
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed.
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare.
You'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there!

It is floated on scenes of pillage, it is flaunted on deeds of shame.
It has waved o'er fell marauders, as they ravished with sword and flame,
it has looked upon on ruthless slaughter, and massacred dire and grim,
and has heard the shrieks of victims drowning the jingo hymn.

Where is the flag of England? Seek lands where the natives rot.
Where decay, and assured extinction must soon be a people's lot.
Go search for once glad islands where death and disease are rife,
and the greed of colossal commerce now fattens on human life.

Where is the flag of England? Go North, South, East or West.
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed.
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare.
You'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there!

Where is the flag of England? Go sail where rich boats come.
With shoddy and loaded cottons, and beer and Bibles and guns.
Go where brute forces triumphed, and hypocrisy makes its lair.
In your question you'll find the answer, it was and still is there!

Where is the flag of England? Go North, South, East or West.
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed.
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare.
You'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there!

pdf has excellent analysis meaning of lyrics - it's the Wolftones version; none of what I googled had it this close -

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