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Socialist Cortinas

from Socialist Cortinas by The Mighty Ur

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A grandfather rails against the rise of 'Comrade Corbyn'

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SOCIALIST CORTINA’S
Grandad
You and grandma had it all, they say
And yet you vote for them to take away our chance at a proper start in life
Nowadays a tiny starter flat costs thirty times our combined annual wage they say
And you were even opposed to a minimum wage ….
Yet you benefitted very nicely – they say
From the last vestiges of a socialist infrastructure -
Even as your Tory-heroes hive it off and flog it off and piss it all away they say
Don’t you see, they plea –
It was a one-time-only yard-sale – a fire sale – a bonfire of the utilities –
God all-bloody-mighty! –The sheer futility of trying to teach these snot-nosed kids a lesson in history!
Let me tell you about the miserable nineteen-seventies
You lot, you know nothing about the Winter of Discontent! I say.
Bolshie lazy British Leyland workers
Striking for the right to sleep in the back of the Ford Cortina’s they were too lazy to even polish
Coz this was a time before Margaret Thatcher was around to admonish and astonish them all
By letting them hit the bloody wall – market forces – horses for courses – and you couldn’t just opt to stay in the stables and withdraw your labour – coz they shoot lame horses, don’t they?
And all of a sudden it’s a thoroughbred economy and bloody Steptoe and Son can step aside – and that whole ‘you can’t touch me I’m a part of the Union’ attitude can take a bloody hike.
Even into the nineteen eighties -
Michael Foot in his donkey jacket and monkey boots, making a mockery of the Monarchy –
Arthur bloody Scargill standing shoulder to shoulder with flying pickets mocking and blocking and berating the drivers outside the colliery gates… all that scabbing, all that hate … and the endless wait on the other end of a nationalised phone line --- and the poxy curled sandwiches they served on the late trains of the nationalised rail-lines…
And you know what, you know what? – The irony is I’d bet my mortgage-free house that those miner’s - thanks to Margaret Thatcher - actually had longer lives --- no I never said they enjoyed those longer lives – but longer lives once deprived of those toxic mines, nonetheless – yes, granted – their community probably descended into a work-less, drug-ravaged almighty mess – but nonetheless –
Don’t even get me started on the kind of mess Comrade Corbyn will land us in if we allow ourselves to regress – to the bloody 1970’s – at best -
So, yes we sacrificed community on the altar of market-forces
And along the way we had to sacrifice a few of the lamer horses
And you say that this country is harsher, meaner -
But if the Socialists had had their way, and the Tony Benn’s had won the day
We’d still be driving around in clunky, unpolished, Socialist Ford Cortina’s…..

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from Socialist Cortinas, released December 9, 2017
Words : Steve Mcauliffe
Music : TheMighty Ur

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