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Armageddon Rag

from Magic Money Tree by The Mighty Ur

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A foul thought-bubble emerging from Twiggy's aged, timeless head, accompanied by Ye Medieval Dulcimer Based Stoner Rock

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ARMAGEDDON RAG
The 1980’s were a pitiless drag
Thanks in large part to the embedded, and ever-present, Armageddon-rag
And still today, from time to time, I dream of flicking through a school library-book
Defaced and emblazoned with the prominent symbols of the time
Symbols for anarchy, symbols for fascism, communism, nuclear disarmament
Not to mention the odd dripping cock carefully positioned next to a black and white statesman’s mouth
Or a foul thought-bubble, emerging from Twiggy’s aged timeless head
Way back then
The children of the stones had grown away from their fear of the Sea Devils
Only to have the fear rudely replaced by Panorama’s jaunty Armageddon-rag
This detonation in the country’s living rooms was presented by a youthful Paxman, who made his name by informing us – Over the sound of a chopper’s spinning blades –
The effects of a one megaton bomb exploding 7000 feet above Westminster
And how in the event, he related, it would create
A fireball stretching a mile across
With temperatures reaching 100’s of 1000’s of degrees of centigrade
He gleefully hovered over Vauxhall Bridge –
Look dad, Vauxhall Bridge, that’s near where Nan lives –
And Vauxhall Bridge would experience winds of up to 700 miles an hour –
And the vile polluted Thames would carry toxic spores all the way down to Gravesend
For we carried these haunted dreams right into our teens
And way beyond as well
The BBC and Panorama
Defaced the generation who defaced those school library-books so very well
Introduced foul thoughts and dripping cocks into our collective consciousness
Maybe the threat of Armageddon was their retribution instead
For us drawing tits on Winston Churchill’s waistcoat
And a nob on Nelson’s painted head
-I’m off to bed
I’m off to bed to dream of strange familiar things like defaced library books
And the fearful spectre of Armageddon
-Yeah, it’s a drag
But this is an Armageddon rag.

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from Magic Money Tree, released August 16, 2018
Words : Steve
Electric Dulcimer : Sned
Electric Bass : Runks
Bongos : Darren

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The Mighty Ur are Steve McAuliffe (words) AC Monks, DP & Sned (music).This bandcamp site holds the music created with with a variety of musical co-conspirators in a variety of styles along with the works of The Mighty Ur

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