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Thread #163724 Message #3909323
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Mar-18 - 08:47 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs by Alex Comfort (1920-2000)
Subject: ADD: First Things First (Ban the H-Bomb) A.Comfort
OK, so this one I'm not conpletely sure about. Extrapolating from other Websites, I gather that this song has two titles, and that it's the song referred to above as "First Things First," written by Alex Comfort.
70. Ban Ban Ban the Bloody H-bomb (to the tune of John Brown's Body)
BAN BAN BAN THE BLOODY H-BOMB [FIRST THINGS FIRST] (allegedly by Alex Comfort) (tune: John Brown's Body)
To hell with all the humbug and to hell with all the lies To hell with all the strontium continuing to rise To hell with all the Charlies with a gift for compromise If they won't ban the H-bomb now
[Chorus] Ban ban ban the bloody H-bomb Ban ban ban the bloody H-bomb Ban ban ban the bloody H-bomb If you want to stay alive next week
Macmillan and the Tories are out to wait and see They think the great deterrent will secure the victory I don't know if they scare the reds, by god they frighten me If they won't ban the H-bomb now [Chorus]
Gaitskill's labour party are preparing for a sell They want to get the votes and keep the atom bomb as well But strontium will send us all to shovel coal in hell If we don't ban the H-bomb now [Chorus]
Now half of them are barmy and half of them are blind They've all been talking far too long, its time they all resigned And the way to shift a donkey is to wallop its behind So we're going to ban the H-bomb now [Chorus]
We're going to stop the loonies and preserve the human race We're going to save our country ‘cause we love the dear old place We might have to stuff a rocket up the rocket builder's base But we're going to ban the H-bomb now [Chorus]
Somewhere in the States they've got a button painted red If anybody sits on it we'll all of us be dead Meanwhile a million children are waiting to be fed So we're going to ban the H-bomb now [Chorus]