Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 13 - 10:45 AM Battlefield Band's 'Celtic Hotel' protested at Thatcher's marginalisation/punishment of all the parts of the UK which were not tory strongholds. "Thousands are out here trying to get in Roosting at the edge asking what to do to win Begging cake from that rich woman's hands We want to know, we need to know, and they'll have to show Why we're not able To sit with her At the banquet table." |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: 2581 Date: 09 Apr 13 - 10:24 AM Guest Mike - Where can I hear "Shirt of Blue"? Best wishes, Tony |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE HOUNDS THAT WAIT OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 13 - 09:08 AM A Canadian perspective from Spirit of the West, The Hounds That Wait Outside You Door, written after they'd toured the UK at the height of Thatcherism... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FwTfyavc8 There's a siren ringing loud a call of distress it's winding through these streets making all you people deaf i think you're hearing fine just choosing to ignore the hounds that wait outside your door i think your keeping sane by not keeping score of the hounds that wait outside your door this is a fragile situation an island made of glass this is an unstable structure a structure built on class i think you know full well just choosing to ignore the hounds tha wait outside your door i don't want a stock in what the future has in store it's the hounds that wait outside your door she's back in the chair again i don't know who put her there it seems the silent majority spoke to sway the tory vote the walls are tumbling down and madame has the floor and the hounds that wait outside your door the apple of your eye has gone rotten to the core like the hounds that wait outside your door ah but you have the answer for brittania's sinking ship you need a nice cup of tea and a stiff upper lip old blight's goin' down still you're asking for more of the hounds that wait outside your door god save the queen let the home fires roar above the hounds that wait outside your door |
Subject: Lyr Add: IRON LADY (Nigel Parsons) From: Nigel Parsons Date: 09 Apr 13 - 08:06 AM IRON LADY Nigel Parsons 9/4/13 Tune: River Lady (as sung by Roger Whittaker) The day Hell freezes over is the day she'll start to care. She called herself "The Iron Lady" but her policies weren't fair. She sacrificed our miners, and our seamen bold and brave. When they turf over her casket we will dance upon her grave. South Atlantic water's freezin' Just two minutes in, life signs are ceasin' Floatin' away from the ship with my fingers turning blue Back on the ship the decks are burnin' Metal to flame & liquid turnin' All because Thatcher's flexing her muscles and her powers Sending us out to fight for islands that were never ours. The pit wheels have stopped turning, from the policies she had She said that coal made losses, and we really should be glad. Her place was University, among the caps and gowns But she chose to go to Parliament, and killed our mining towns. Sou-th Atlantic water's freezin' Just two minutes in, life signs are ceasin' etc. The above comments appear to reflect views displayed on Mudcat, but are not necessarily the views of the author. NP |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,mike m Date: 09 Apr 13 - 07:26 AM i sang shirt of blue last night by the men they could not hang about the miners strike |
Subject: Lyr Add: THATCHER'S DOWNFALL (Fred McCormick) From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Date: 09 Apr 13 - 06:39 AM Here's part of a song I wrote at the time of Thatcher's Downfall, which is what I called the song. Apologies for not being able to remember all of it. Apologies also for it not being better polished. But as Ronald Reagan used to say, "They didn't want it good. They wanted it Thursday". It goes to the tune of Bold Robert Emmett, The Darling of Erin. The votes they are counted, the outcome decided, And a new leader they will have to cheer. And I am defeated and shamefully treated. And I, Maggie Thatcher, am out on my ear. After fifteen long years at the helm of the party, I can tell you I am highly annoyed. Though the jobless I created and their numbers inflated, I never expected to join the unemployed. But the worst of this pox is that the cardboard boxes Are taken by the homeless I put out on the street. And since we old souses sold off council houses, I've only a back bench to lay down and sleep. And as for the bleeder they chose for their labour, Around him they'll rally and they will him salute. But come the next crisis, then my good advice is, To break out the long knives - give the buggar the boot! Yeah, I know. But there's people in the music industry being paid shedloads of money for stuff that's even worse. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Myrtle's cook Date: 09 Apr 13 - 06:32 AM Returning to the thread... Billy Bragg's 'Between the wars' seems to perfectly capture the feeling of living in Thatcher's Britain in the 1980s. There has to be a bitter irony that whilst she reportedly spent her final days in the 5* Ritz hotel, many of her contemporaries in former coal mining and steel communities are living out their days in towns and villages blighted by decay and deprivation. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Dave Hanson Date: 09 Apr 13 - 03:57 AM And who can forget the worlds greatest hypocrite telling the Polish Government that they ought to listen to the trade unions, words fail me. Dave H |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Rob Naylor Date: 08 Apr 13 - 07:06 PM Well I sang "A Long Strong Black Pudding Up Margaret Thatcher" along with Grimm and several hundred others several times as a student, but I do find this gleeful outpouring of bile just a tad distateful. She had a lack of humanity and compassion??? ....hey, "pot"....meet all these "kettles"! |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,JTT Date: 08 Apr 13 - 06:44 PM Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding, where a father looks forward to the chance of getting work again when they open the shipyards, despite the fact that his son will die on the ship he builds. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: melodeonboy Date: 08 Apr 13 - 06:36 PM "Mother Knows Best" by Richard Thompson. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST Date: 08 Apr 13 - 06:28 PM Didn't somebody make an album called "Margaret Thatcher: My part in her downfall"? And I believe Chumbawumba have had a celebratory record pressed up and ready to post out on this glorious day for a few years now. Elvis Costello's Tramp The Dirt Down still gets gold for me though. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Peter the Squeezer Date: 08 Apr 13 - 06:18 PM What shall we do with Margaret Thatcher? What shall we do with Margaret Thatcher? What shall we do with Margaret Thatcher? Earlye in the morning. Burn burn burn the BASTARD Burn burn burn the BASTARD Burn burn burn the BASTARD Earlye in the morning. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:32 PM Sorry, 'guest' was me.. Oh, for an EDIT button! |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:30 PM Can't find either of those, Georgina...but I found this, albeit only 'footage' of Thatcher (towards the end) The Unthanks...and a site filled with footage and songs from the Shipyards..Is this to do with The Radio Ballads? I can't link to it, I'm afraid, as the 'make a link' won't work due to the odd address on it, but if you copy and paste it into your browser, it *will* show up correctly... To hear the songs press 'Watch Film' in each chapter, which you scroll down to reach. 'Songs from the Shipyards' thespace.org/items/s0000t26 |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: kendall Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:19 PM I like Ian Robb's song best. ..I joined to have a job, it was either that or rob and I never thought I'd curse Brittani's rule... |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:13 PM I sill sing "Maggie's Pit Ponies" |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:06 PM And Ray Hearne's songs on her destruction of the steel industry, "The German's Couldn't do it like the Grocer's daughter can" and "January Snows" Georgina |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE ANDROIDS (Ewan MacColl) From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:03 PM Wow! The lyrics are in the link.... The Grocer - Ewan MacColl 'Androids' - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger (With thanks to Dave Hanson for these lyrics, which I found on a thread here started by dear Barry Finn. Sending up a big hug, Barry! x) THE ANDROIDS words and music by Ewan MacColl, from The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook. Has it ever crossed your mind to ask yourself why Mrs T talks funny, Have you never paused to wonder why the lady's so obsessed with saving cash ? Why she hates the working classes more with every day that passes, Will she one day up and vanish in a flash, If you have then I would ask you to forgive her. She's only lately come to us from outer space, She's a poor deprived commuter who was built by a computer, She's an android, a stranger to the human race. Has your nervous system never been upset by Mrs Thatcher's martial posture, Have you listened to her laying down the law and not been scared out of your skin, Heard her rattling her sabre, scaring all the friends and neighbours, She's impatient for the next war to begin, If you have, then show a little understanding, The way that she was programmed it was really grim, She was built to man the toll shack in a region called the coal sack At the very furthest edge of the galactic rim. Have you never had occasion to suspect when watching her speak on the telly, And noticed the occasional wild look and sudden glazing of the eye, She looks spooked, bombed out and funky, yes, and oddly like a junkie, As the stuff begins to send one up on high, If you have, then do not give way unto panic, She doesn't mean to scare you, it is just a game, Just remember what you're seeing's not a normal human being, Though I grant you that it rather looks the same. If you're under the impression that our baby-faced Lord Chancellor is a Terran, Or that Heseltine or Prentice both belong to Homo Sapiens, you're insane, And you suffer from delusions if you think Sir Keith is human, Or behind those brooding pop-eyes lurks a brain, They are exiles from a far galactic cluster, They malfunctioned and were thrown out in disgrace, They are made of wire and things and little wheels and bits of string They are androids, strangers to the human race. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes Date: 08 Apr 13 - 04:00 PM Lal Waterson's - "Hilda's Cabinet Band" Georgina |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: 2581 Date: 08 Apr 13 - 03:58 PM Of course, Elton John's brilliant "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher" from the play "Billy Elliot". "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher" Elton's version |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Jim McLean Date: 08 Apr 13 - 03:52 PM Maggie |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,grumpy Date: 08 Apr 13 - 03:50 PM Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Apr 13 - 03:48 PM 'The Waves of Tory' - Red Shift |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Sue Allan Date: 08 Apr 13 - 03:24 PM Pete Coe's the Waves of Tory is brilliant: an excoriating critique of Thatcher and her policies. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Dave Sutherland Date: 08 Apr 13 - 03:18 PM "The Grocer", "The Android" and "Thatcheroo The Vampire" all by Ewan MacColl |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Effsee Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:59 PM "Targets" by Harvey Andrews. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: MGM·Lion Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:48 PM Oh, teeheeheeheehee... Don't think I shall bother to open this thread again. |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Ray Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:44 PM You beat me to it Dave. I've been waiting to do this since the 1980's http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rHJoj9IqeKg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrHJoj9IqeKg |
Subject: RE: Songs About Thatcher From: Dave Hanson Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:41 PM Somebody wrote one years ago, it was in the film ' The Wizard of Oz ' No prizes for guessing it. Dave H |
Subject: Songs About Thatcher From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:36 PM I thought it might be interesting to see how many there are.... 'Vulcan & Lucifer' A song written for Thatcher & MacGregor.. 'Vulcan and Lucifer' - John Tams & Barry Coope "...The Miners weren't the only industry to rise up against the privatisation enforced by Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. The Sheffield & Rotherham steel industry also felt the force of her blows, reducing the industry to a tenth of its size in three decades. In the 'Song of Steel' the Radio Ballads focus on the decline of this industry, both in the economic sense and the social ramifications which followed. 'Vulcan and Lucifer' pits Thatcher and McGregor (the man held responsible for breaking both the Steel Workers & the Miners' strikes) against the Devil himself. A mournful lament, the iconic sound of a brass band resonates with the testimonies of the workers as they describe their experiences 1981 strike and the following decline of the industry that they had previously seen as a 'job for life'. Taken from here: http://www.brightyoungfolk.com/gigs/the-song-of-steel-radio-ballads-2006/record-detail.aspx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTQo1pkvxM |
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