English Scheme

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[Verse]

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

[Bridge]

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Like your psychotic big brother, who left home
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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, middle-class, flip-flop
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Guess that's why they end up in 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 through Haslingden
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You got sixty hour weeks, and stone stone toilet back-gardens
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Peter Cook's jokes, bad dope, check shirts, lousy groups
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Point their fingers at America

[Bridge]

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