English Scheme

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[Verse]

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O'er grassy dale, and lowland 
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scene
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Come see, come hear, the English 
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Scheme.
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The lower-class, want brass, 
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bad chests, scrounge fags.
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The clever ones tend to emigrate

[Bridge]

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[Verse]

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Like your psychotic big brother, 
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who left home
Continúa después del anuncio
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For jobs in Holland, Munich, Rome
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He's thick but he struck it rich, 
switch
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The commune crap, camp bop, 
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middle-class, flip-flop
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Guess that's why they end up in 
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bands
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He's the green piece in us all
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He's the creep-creep in us all
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Condescends to black men
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Very nice to them
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They talk of Chile while driving 
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through Haslingden
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You got sixty hour weeks, and 
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stone stone toilet back-gardens
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Peter Cook's jokes, bad dope, 
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check shirts, lousy groups
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Point their fingers at America

[Bridge]

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[Verse]

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Down pokey quaint streets in 
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Cambridge
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Cycles our distant spastic 
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heritage
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Its a gay red, roundhead, army 
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career, grim head
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If we was smart we'd emigrate