At night the Baby Brotherhood and the Inter City Crew
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Fill their pockets up with calling cards
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And paint their faces red white and blue
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Then they go out seeking different coloured faces
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And anyone else that they can scare
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And they salute the foes their fathers fought
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By raising their right hands in the air
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Oh look how my country's patriots are hunting down below
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What do they know of England who only England know
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From the stands of the Empire Stadium
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Come the heralds of the New Dark Age
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With the simplicities of bigotry
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And to whom all the world's a stage
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These little John Bullshits know that the press
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Will glorify their feats
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So that the general public fear them
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And the authorities say give 'em all seats
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And the wasted seed of the bulldog breed
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Is shouting here we go
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What do they know of England who only England know
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Our neighbours shake their heads
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And take their valuables inside
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While my countrymen piss in the fountains
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To express our national pride
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And to prove to the world that England
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Is just as rotten as she looks
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They repeat the lies that caught their eyes
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At school in history books
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But the wars they think they're fighting
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Were all over long ago
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What do they know of England who only England know
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And the society that spawned them
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Just cries out Who's to blame?
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And then wraps itself in the Union Jack
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And just carries on the same
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Oh look out, my country's patriots are hunting down below
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What do they know of England who only England know
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The Few
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Billy Bragg |