Is this Billy Bragg's satire on New Labour? My understanding is that the old song was sung up until Blair became PM.
Mike B)
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Gar Lipow posted:
The people's flag is palest pink
It's not the colour you might think
White collar workers stand and cheer
The Labour government is here
We'll change the country bit by bit
So nobody will notice it
And just to show that we're sincere
We'll sing The Red Flag once a year
The cloth cap and the wollen scarf
Are images outdated
For we're the party's avant garde
And we are educated
So raise the rolled umbrella high
The college scarf, the old school tie
And just to show that we're sincere
We'll sing The Red Flag once a year
> The Red Flag
> (James O'Connell, 1899)
>
> The worker's flag is deepest red
> It shrouded oft our martyred dead;
> And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
> Their life-blood dyed its every fold.
Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht! http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
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