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Let The Bodies Pile High (In Their Thousands)

from Singles 2022​-​2018 by Jon Horne

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I always wanted to be
The leader of the land of the free
Stars and stripes hanging over me
As I speak and you listen
But mother had a panic attack
So daddy made us all come back
And I stand between these union jacks
And read out loud what’s written

But this man has things to say
When men like me were made
A man could call a spade a spade
A real man doesn’t worry
Now I’m holding the ball
Kick it against the wall
Watch the numbers rise and fall
A man doesn’t say sorry

We’ll fight them on the beaches
The doctors, nurses and teachers
Binmen and bus drivers, watch them drowning
I’m the leader of a nation
The Churchill for my generation
Let the bodies pile high in their thousands.

Sunday night and it’s late
Time to abdicate
Responsibilities of state
Can I call you ‘mummy’?
Blame the Irish, blame the blacks
Lower corporation tax
I’ll put my feet up and relax
And call in the army

We’ll fight them on the beaches
The doctors, nurses and teachers
Binmen and bus drivers, watch them drowning
I’m the leader of a nation
The Churchill for my generation
Let the bodies pile high in their thousands.

127,428
127,428
127,428
as of 25/4/21
For 127,428
It's too late

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from Singles 2022​-​2018, released April 12, 2023
© Jon Horne 2021
JH: male vocal with guitar acc.
Recorded in Ruswarp, North Yorkshire, 2021.
Photo © JH (Seaton Carew, 2021)

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Jon Horne Edinburgh, UK

Chronicling the folibles of the age via the medium of contemporary folk song since 2005.

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