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Well, what a week, full of revelation Enough to stir this talk of revolution Makes your hackles turn on end Then send you round the bend The southern gentry have found oil Right beneath their derriere boil Now most of us on this golden isle Need not worry about this pile Those who wear weekend country tweed, Built their fortunes from housing greed Have already decided That it will be one sided They’ll say it’s theirs, by rights And if we argue, will read our last rites The South will declare independence In certainty of their full ascendance Over the outer reaches of this nation They pounded into servitude, by taxation And if we have the nerve to debate, I’ll be bound They’ll leave it horded in the ground, Then blame the anti frackin’ hound Now I may need a political re - education In a 1984 establishment for rehabilitation But I can see it coming a five-nation island Southland, Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland, And the Detritus
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 5:27 PM UTC
Fracking Hell ... Devolution (But not as we know it!)
Well, what a week, full of revelation Enough to stir this talk of revolution Makes your hackles turn on end Then send you round the bend The southern gentry have found oil Right beneath their derriere boil Now most of us on this golden isle Need not worry about this pile Those who wear weekend country tweed, Built their fortunes from housing greed Have already decided That it will be one sided They’ll say it’s theirs, by rights And if we argue, will read our last rites The South will declare independence In certainty of their full ascendance Over the outer reaches of this nation They pounded into servitude, by taxation And if we have the nerve to debate, I’ll be bound They’ll leave it horded in the ground, Then blame the anti frackin’ hound Now I may need a political re - education In a 1984 establishment for rehabilitation But I can see it coming a five-nation island Southland, Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland, And the Detritus
A tongue in cheek view of the discovery of oil in England
nick-strong
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 5:27 PM UTC
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