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Dysunitednation “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution” Article 14 of the universal declaration of human rights
In great Britain Land of hope and glory Land of the royal fairy tale story Patrol your borders obey your orders Spend 53 million on the dome But close our hospitals and moan At asylum seekers taking our money Our homes our jobs our liberty Lets lock em up before they destroy our liberty Lets lock em up before they destroy our economy Sssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee We’re vallee people we ain’t no racists But if you cm yer you’ll get ower fists In great Britain Built on working class sweat and blood And oh I almost forgot on Cambridge and oxford This disunited nation of red and white and blue Of white male bigotry and children learning thru Sun headlines and telegraphed lines Hague proclaims Blair denies As 58 refugees die in front of our eyes Patrol your borders obey their orders But we welcome Hitachi Aiwa Toshiba and Ig We worship Ginola Zola and Vialli Yet we spit at frightened refugees I propose that next time a politician or anybody mentions The words detention and refugee I will ask them to look at the dictionary Where they will see that refuge is before refugee And détente comes before detention So – Ignore their orders destroy all borders;
© Patrick Jones - 2000
From “Fuse”, to be published by Parthian Books in 2001
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