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08 Nov 15 - 12:11 PM (#3749279) Subject: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: GUEST,Janey Please please can someone tell us who wrote the song with the line: "You're a bunch of greedy bankers" (to the tune of The Saints go Marching in) ... and maybe post the lyrics too? |
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08 Nov 15 - 05:08 PM (#3749328) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: Pete MacGregor I have written and perform a song to the tune of 'John Brown's Body" (more or less) with the chorus 'You're a bunch of greedy bankers With your multi-million bonus in your foreign bank account You've bought the politicians and you think you rule the World But we're going' to pull you down" Is that the one you are looking for? Pete MacGregor |
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08 Nov 15 - 06:07 PM (#3749338) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: Tattie Bogle Then there was "Bugger the Bankers" - you'll find that on YouTube (but not to either of those tunes). |
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08 Nov 15 - 06:19 PM (#3749343) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: Thompson Where is this song? Reminds me of a thread on the long-ago maillist Gaeilge-L about how to pronounce Irish spellings, threadlined 'Preiteinsios Bhaincéirí". |
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09 Nov 15 - 12:33 PM (#3749526) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: GUEST Pete - yes, that's the one (nothing to do with saints at-all!) We heard you sing it somewhere last year and it's just come back to haunt me. Would you share the words? It deserves singing |
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09 Nov 15 - 03:31 PM (#3749580) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: Pete MacGregor The Modern Banker (tune adapted from "John Brown's Body") I am a modern banker and I make the world go round I deal in gold and dollars; I buy and sell your pound A more important personage is nowhere to be found But I can't hear the people sing… You're a bunch of greedy bankers With your multi-million bonus in your foreign bank account You've bought the politicians and you think you rule the world But we're going to pull you down. When sitting in my country house I watch the Sky TV They say the world depends on "honest 'venturers" like me. I think I'll close the mortgage market down to set my money free And I can't hear the homeless sing… I like driving in my 'Roller' right through the factory gate I work with market forces so there's no room for debate Production has to move offshore to build my grand estate And I can't hear the workers sing… I don't want smart-ass workers so I'll change the way they're taught The schools and universities can easily be bought I'll sack the teachers, cut the funds, I'll teach belief not thought And I can't hear the children sing... The NHS will have to go, I own a private scheme I'll rationalise provision and put in a new regime Healthcare for all will be a long-forgotten, silly dream And I can't hear the patients sing… One morning in my private lift, I don't know how or why I pressed a different button on my way to sell and buy I stepped out on the roof – it was open to the sky And I could hear the whole world sing… Sometimes I insert a topical verse if the mood takes me. For instance - My name is Nigel Farage - high finance is my trade I thought I'd rule the country with the money that I'd made So I joined the nutty nazis but I couldn't make the grade I soon heard the voters sing.. Rosie Upton used the song in a union singing workshop last year. One of the group was a Swindon teacher who passed it on to her class. I'm told it was soon being sung in a Swindon playground with possibly a slight 'improvement' to the first line of the chorus. Use at will Pete |
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10 Nov 15 - 05:44 AM (#3749730) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: GUEST Wow - many many thanks Pete! |
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10 Nov 15 - 02:50 PM (#3749874) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: GUEST,Guest Dave Burland and others including Keith Marsden maintained that the collective noun for Bankers was a wunch! |
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10 Nov 15 - 06:30 PM (#3749928) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bunch of Greedy Bankers From: GUEST If you want another song about naughty bankers, try this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYm3NGwAxEw |