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Lyr Req: Protect and Survive (John Clifden)

08 Jun 97 - 11:05 PM (#6460)
Subject:
From: Bo Vandenberg

There is an Anti Nuke song with the chorus:

Just stick you head between your legs and....

(watch the clouds go by) or (kiss your ass goodbye)

Does anyone out there remember this whole song, its really good.

bo

30 Dec 02 - 05:54 AM (#855143)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: banjomad (inactive)

The Song is called ' Protect and Survive ' and its on the Dubliners
25 year celebration album.
Dave

30 Dec 02 - 06:00 AM (#855147)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Nigel Parsons

Full lyrics @ Celtic Lyrics

Nigel

30 Dec 02 - 06:02 AM (#855148)
Subject: Lyr Add: PROTECT AND SURVIVE (John Clifden)
From: Mr Happy

here's the words:

PROTECT AND SURVIVE
(John Clifden)

Well the government's made a document
To help prevent embarrassment
And in the event of an accident
Catching us with our trousers down
It's no use to you when you're dead
Nor even when alive
And the name of this peace of paper is
Protect and survive

So when the nuke's come raining down
It's great to be alive, well
World War Three can be such fun
If you protect and survive
Protect and survive

Well a nuclear strike can be recognised
It would stand out in a crowd
There's a flash, then a bang, then a blast of heat
Then a bloody great mushroom cloud
So if you happen to see one at the end of your street
Would you please pick up the telephone
And inform your local police

So when the nuke's come raining down
It's great to be alive, well
World War Three can be such fun
If you protect and survive
Protect and survive

Put sticky tape on your windows
Block your ears and close your eyes
But it won't make a blind bit of difference
You won't have to watch yourself fry
If you find yourself in the target zone
And you haven't got a shelter
Take a spade into the garden
And dig like merry hell, sir

So when the nuke's come raining down
It's great to be alive, well
World War Three can be such fun
If you protect and survive
Protect and survive

They've got strategic ICBM's
Both theatre and tactical
With independently targeted
Multiple reentry vehicle's
Backfire bombers, Polaris sub's, cruise missiles
And the boy's who hang around the Pentagon
Can't wait to use these toys

So when the nuke's come raining down
It's great to be alive, well
World War Three can be such fun
If you protect and survive
Protect and survive

When Armageddon gets underway
And the rockets come pouring down
All the bloody politicians who started it
Will scuttle off underground
And when they finally reemerge
With no life to be found
They can administrate the rubble
And they can order each other a round

So when the nuke's come raining down
It's great to be alive, well
World War Three can be such fun
If you protect and survive
Protect and survive

For they give us a four-minute warning
When the rockets are on their way
To give us time to panic and Christians time to pray
So when you hear the siren's going
Place your head between your thighs
Whilst maintaining this posture
You can make a final gesture
And with a little muscular pressure
You can kiss your arse goodbye

So when the nuke's come raining down
It's great to be alive, well
World War Three can be such fun
If you protect and survive
Protect and survive
Protect and survive
Protect and...


cheers

mr h

30 Dec 02 - 11:17 AM (#855284)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: SINSULL

Brings back fond memories of dropping, covering my eyes (while little boys closed theirs and covered their genitals) and getting under the desk until it was "safe" to come out. They couldn't have really believed it would do any good. Ever see pictures of children at Ground Zero in Hiroshima?

30 Dec 02 - 11:54 AM (#855306)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: TheBigPinkLad

There's also the ditty to the refrain of "Valancia" that goes

Valencia, sticka your head between your legs
And whistle up your Barcelona!"

30 Dec 02 - 01:03 PM (#855354)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Nigel Parsons

Sinsull: the futher from 'ground zero' the greater the chance that 'duck and cover' will have some effect. At that stage there is nothing to lose by taking extra precautions.
Nigel

30 Dec 02 - 01:16 PM (#855364)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: SINSULL

I, for one, would prefer to go out (or up in smoke) in the initial blast. Agonizing radiation burns, missing limbs, the prospect of cancer to follow, no hair, etc, all in a world with no medical help or Propecia to deal with it just isn't my cup of tea. Has anyone here read the book "The Day After WWIII"? The first thing we in the US are supposed to do is visit our local Post Office and fill out a form saying we are alive and living on the corner of what once was Main St. If the PO is gone we are still obligated to get the information to authorities or risk prosecution. This applies to convicts who might find themselves free after the blast.
Sorry for the ramble. And now to back to the music part of this thread...

30 Dec 02 - 05:00 PM (#855519)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: rock chick

I opened this thread thinking it had something to do with too much drink after Christmas and maybe some new ideas on how to deal with a hangover new years eve/day! :o))

30 Dec 02 - 06:35 PM (#855555)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Tweed

Hey SINSULL, I remember that same scenario and remember thinking the same stuff (get under the desk...don't look at the light) when I was in grade school. I think that was the beginning of my mistrust of the judgement of anyone in authority. I always figured it would've been better to go out with the puff of smoke too.

We'd all seen the burned victims pics in Japan and none of us thought it would be much good to go on like that. I got to thinking for a long time all that crap was over but dammit it's back, freaking the little kids out all over again.

Tweed

30 Dec 02 - 11:14 PM (#855742)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Mark Cohen

When I was in elementary school (early 60s) they called it a Retention Drill, and it was the opposite of a Fire Drill, where we had to get out of the building. I suspect that it came out of WWII and the Blitz, when the idea was to avoid getting hit by falling debris. Then after the A-bomb, even though people knew there wasn't going to be any getting away from it, they didn't have any better ideas so they kept on with the retention drill.

I still remember the manila cards with red lettering that said at the bottom, "IF YOU SEE A BRIGHT FLASH OF LIGHT, TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY." That sentence gave me nightmares for years. Then, when I was just about over it, I opened the closet door in my freshman dormitory on the first day of college, and saw a similar little card that said, among other things: "Fallout will take approximately 30 minutes to drift to Princeton from New York or Philadelphia." It's a wonder I slept at all... And with the stuff going on in North Korea, and in Washington and Arlington and Langley, I'm starting to get nervous all over again. Remember Pearl Harbor? I'm sure the North Koreans do.

Now, to make this a musical thread, there's the late Jan Harmon's wonderful ditty, Number Fifteen Sunscreen.

Aloha,
Mark

31 Dec 02 - 12:22 PM (#856008)
Subject: Lyr Add: MERRY MINUET (from Kingston Trio)
From: SINSULL

They're rioting in Africa
La La La La La La La
They're fighting in Spain
La La La La La La
There's hurricanes in Florida
La La La La La La La
And Texas needs rain
La La La La

The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans;
The Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don't like anybody very much.

But we can be thankful
And tranquil and proud
For man's been endowed
With a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain
That some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away.

They're rioting in Africa
La La La La La La La
There's strife in Iran
La La La La
What nature doesn't do to us
La La La La La La La
Will be done by our fellow man.

31 Dec 02 - 01:56 PM (#856094)
Subject: RE: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Charley Noble

Mark, thanks for linking this thread to Jan Harmon's wonderful song. I was thinking of that myself, and at a loss at how to come up with the whole song, which folder in which cabinet...

Many of us who have lived anywhere near a nuclear power plant have a deep appreciation for gallows humor, while comtemplating the very real threat of some domestic or foreign saboteur making a nasty mess of a "spent" fuel pool.

Charley Noble

02 Jan 03 - 05:17 AM (#857091)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Gurney

Some years ago Mike Harding did a Calypso version on UK TV, called, I think, 'Fallout Calypso.' If that is it, I have a very poor recording somewhere. It starts: The udder day, I got a big shock, a ting came in tru me letterbox. A govermint paper wid lots of tips bout what to do in de apocalypse. Ask on my page if you want it. Chris.

02 Jan 03 - 08:51 AM (#857173)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Dave Bryant

Leon Rosselson also wrote a very funny song on the same subject - if anyone has the words, I'd be pleased to see them posted.

02 Jan 03 - 11:18 AM (#857233)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stick Your Head Between your legs....
From: Dave Bryant

I've just thought - if most of us could get our heads between our legs, I don't think that it would be our asses (or as we would say in the UK - arses) that we'd be kissing.

I once heard Linda Smith (the comedienne not my partner) say that the human race wouldn't have got anywhere if they'd been able to suck their own genitals (mind you, I bet Spaw is going to claim he can).