Song Of Patriotic Prejudice 1970 Flanders & Swann

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Jun 2004

The rottenest bits of these islands of ours
we've left in the hands
of three unfriendly powers;
examine the Irishman, Welshman or Scot,
you'll find he's a stinker as often as not!

The English, the English,
the English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The Scotsman is mean as we're all well aware,
and bony and blotchy and covered with hair;
he eats salty porridge, he works all the day
and he hasn't got Bishops
to show him the way.

The English, the English,
the English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The Irishman now our contempt is beneath;
he sleeps in his boots,
and he lies in his teeth;
he blows up policemen, or so I have heard,
and blames it on Cromwell
and William The Third,

The English, the English,
the English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

The Welshman's dishonest
he cheats when he can
and little and dark,
more like monkey than man;
he works underground with a lamp on his hat
and sings far too loud, far too often, and flat.

The English, the English,
the English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

And crossing the Channel
one cannot say much
for the French or the Spanish,
the Danish or Dutch;
The Germans are German,
the Russians are Red
and the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed.

The English are moral, the English are good
and clever and modest and misunderstood.

And all the world over each nations the same
they've simply no notion of Playing the Game;
they argue with Umpires,
they cheer when they've won,
and they practice beforehand
which ruins the fun!

The English, the English,
the English are best!
So up with the English
and down with the rest.

It's not knowing they're wicked
or naturally bad;
it's knowing they're foreign
that makes them so mad!
For the English are all
that a nation should be
and the flower of the English
is Donald and me!

The English, the English,
the English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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Song Of Patriotic Prejudice 1970 Flanders & Swann
Lyrics by Michael Flanders
Music by Donald Swann
© The Estates of Michael Flanders & Donald Swann
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 21 June 2004 at 23.53
in association with Doug Grierson
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