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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by its been fun thanks :), Mar 4, 2016.

  1. its been fun thanks :)

    its been fun thanks :) ♬♬Badum-tish! ♬♬
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    Some Friday night banter

    I'll start with this one -



    clever and thought provoking lyrics -

    No....Surrender

    Big Macs for the fat, low-cal wraps for the call center battery hens
    Japanese snacks for the choice-spoilt citizens
    Caviar kickbacks for the citadel denizens

    Airport shoe-shines servicing the suits,
    Among the little silver stereos and hand-rolled cheroots
    First class passengers file on last, after the scum are packed in with their tax-free loot.

    Checkout calamity, you're cheated out of loyalty points
    Ten more years at this joint you'd be home and dry
    Beggars beat round the cash machine but you just slip between them with the usual lie

    And terrible tales of kidnapped kids keep you focused on the family and filling up the fridge
    Neighborhood watchers shop dole dodgers, stick their semis on the market and start racking up the bids

    Should you stand and fight?
    Should you die for what you think is right?
    So your useless contribution will be remembered
    If you're asking me I say “no, surrender”
    “No, surrender”

    Constant growth, the cancerous cure,
    A swarming race of profiteers ensure, cheap cars for the rich,
    Cheap lives for the poor, cheap weeks in the sun, free drinks at the door

    Puerile propaganda plugs up the TV
    Keep folk following the money so they'll never be free
    Keep them swallowing the swill, the celebrities, the pedophiles, the immigrants invading from the camp over the hill

    War talk, the big debate, foot soldiers in the capital liberating new kinds of hate
    Cum-shots of human dots caught in the spotlight's glare, he dies who dares

    Fatuous fast-trackers sneering at the shelf-stackers, little Middle-Englanders can't stand the backpackers,
    Fortress Freedom, come on in, take your chances, you might win

    Should you stand and fight?
    Should you die for what you think is right?
    So your useless contribution will be remembered
    If you're asking me I say “no, surrender”
    “No, surrender”

    Sunset beaches security patrolled,
    Keep out the undesirables who don't accept the code,
    Equal opportunity to live in total poverty,
    Execute the ignorant, incarcerate the slow

    Car caressing managers choking up the avenues,
    Brain dead patriots standing in salute
    Paperwork raining again and again so that billionaires can claim there's an enemy to shoot

    Pill pushers, door steppers, personal goal shoppers, lifestyle trendsetters, meditating mindbenders,
    Hare-brained share sellers pumping out stocks till you're choking on a chain-letter avalanche of dross

    God squads crawling through every country tracking down fools who are bullshit hungry
    Blinded by divinity, followers fall into the man-traps set along the Wailing Wall

    Athletes compete in grand charades while tanks flatten streets and a nation laughs
    Visa holders gape at the changing guards, while creeps bribe bums to take their photographs

    Film fans flock to the latest schlock, blockbusters block out even the vaguest thought
    Bankrupt schools grind out fool after fool then feed them to a system where idiots rule

    Polling booths, phone votes, bogus questionnaires
    You get a say as if anybody cares
    Joe Public doesn't want to play so liquidate his life as he looks the other way

    Don't get sick, don't get wise or they'll gut you with a justice where everything is lies
    March down Main Street, complain if you want but it's twenty years straight for the losers at the front
     
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  2. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    I listen to quite a bit of political orientated music, but it's hip-hop therefore nobody wants me to share it <laugh>

    I don't care for the content but the rappers are **** hot.
     
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  5. its been fun thanks :)

    its been fun thanks :) ♬♬Badum-tish! ♬♬
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    Stick it on I'll listen - did you play the song above it's quite strong in lyrical content
     
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  6. its been fun thanks :)

    its been fun thanks :) ♬♬Badum-tish! ♬♬
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    Excellent song mate
     
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    Diddles tried to put "won't get fooled again" by the who - can i f**k work out how to get a url from this new tablet thing onto the board ( mind this bottle of shiraz isn't helping)
     
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  8. its been fun thanks :)

    its been fun thanks :) ♬♬Badum-tish! ♬♬
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    Great drumming too
     
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  9. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    This guy Vinnie Paz he's very controversial but this one is about his mental health:



    And one of his political ones:

     
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    Keith Moon was the best drummer ever in my opinion - someone once described him as a lead drummer
     
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  11. Brian Storm

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    Great thread. Headphones going on. <ok>
     
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  12. Tel (they/them)

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    Lead drums, they must be heavy.
     
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    See that black boy over there, runnin' scared
    his ol' man's in a bottle.
    He done quit his 9 to 5 he drink full time
    so now he's livin' in the bottle.
    See that black boy over there, runnin' scared
    his ol' man got a problem and it's a bad one
    Pawned off damn near everything, his ol'
    woman's weddin' ring for a bottle.
    And don't you think it's a crime
    when time after time, people in the bottle.

    See that sista, sho wuz fine before she
    started drinkin' wine
    from the bottle.
    Said her ol' man committed a crime
    and he's doin' time,
    so now she's in the bottle.
    She's out there on the avenue, all by herself
    sho' needs help from the bottle.
    Preacherman tried to help her out,
    she cussed him out and hit him in the head with a bottle.
    And don't you think it's a crime
    when time after time, people in the bottle.

    See that gent in the wrinkled suit
    he done damn near blown his cool
    to the bottle
    He wuz a doctor helpin' young girls along
    if they wuzn't too far gone to have problems.
    But defenders of the dollar eagle
    Said "What you doin', Doc, it ain't legal,"
    and now he's in the bottle.
    Now we watch him everyday tryin' to
    chase the pigeons away
    from the bottle.
    And don't you think it's a crime
    when time after time, people in the bottle.
     
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  15. Brian Storm

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    You will not be able to stay home, brother.
    You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
    You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
    skip out for beer during commercials,
    Because the revolution will not be televised.

    The revolution will not be televised.
    The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
    In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
    The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
    blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
    Mitchell, General Abrams and Mendel Rivers to eat
    hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.

    The revolution will not be televised.
    The revolution will not be brought to you by the
    Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
    Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
    The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
    The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
    The revolution will not make you look five pounds
    thinner, the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

    There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays
    pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
    or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
    NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
    on reports from 29 districts.
    The revolution will not be televised.

    There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
    brothers in the instant replay.
    There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
    run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
    There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
    Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
    Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
    For just the right occasion.

    Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
    Junction will no longer be so god damned relevant, and
    women will not care if Dick finally screwed
    Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
    will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
    The revolution will not be televised.

    There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
    news and no pictures of hairy armed women
    liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
    The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or
    Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
    Jones, Johnny Cash or Englebert Humperdink.
    The revolution will not be televised.

    The revolution will not be right back
    after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
    You will not have to worry about a dove in your
    bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
    The revolution will not go better with Coke.
    The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
    The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

    The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
    will not be televised, will not be televised.
    The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
    The revolution will be live.
     
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  16. Brian Storm

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    Mother, mother
    There's too many of you crying
    Brother, brother, brother
    There's far too many of you dying
    You know we've got to find a way
    To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

    Father, father
    We don't need to escalate
    You see, war is not the answer
    For only love can conquer hate
    You know we've got to find a way
    To bring some lovin' here today

    Picket lines and picket signs
    Don't punish me with brutality
    Talk to me, so you can see
    Oh, what's going on
    What's going on
    Ya, what's going on
    Ah, what's going on

    In the mean time
    Right on, baby
    Right on
    Right on

    Mother, mother, everybody thinks we're wrong
    Oh, but who are they to judge us
    Simply because our hair is long
    Oh, you know we've got to find a way
    To bring some understanding here today
    Oh

    Picket lines and picket signs
    Don't punish me with brutality
    Talk to me
    So you can see
    What's going on
    Ya, what's going on
    Tell me what's going on
    I'll tell you what's going on - Uh
    Right on baby
    Right on bab
     
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  17. grandpops

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    There you go mate.



    A very fine choice. <ok>
     
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  18. The Relic

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    THE DURHAM LOCK-OUT by Tommy Armstrong (1848-1920)

    In wor Durham County, I'm sorry for to say
    That hunger and starvation is increasing every day
    For the want of food and coals, we know not what to do
    But with your kind assistance, we'll stand the struggle through

    I need not state the reason why we have been brought so low
    The masters have behaved unkind, as everyone well know
    Because we won't lie down and let them treat us as they like
    To punish us they've stopped the pits and caused the present
    strike

    The pulley wheel have ceased to turn which went so swift around
    The horses and the ponies too are brought from underground
    Our work is taken from us now, they care not if we die
    For they can eat the best of food and drink the best when dry

    The miner and his marra, too, each morning have to roam
    To seek for bread to feed the hungry little ones at home
    The flour barrel is empty now, wor true and faithful friend
    Which makes the thousands wish today the strike was at an end

    We have done our very best as honest working men
    To let the pits commence again, we've offered to them ten
    The offer they will not accept, they firmly do demand
    Thirteen and a half percent or let the collieries stand

    Well let them stand or let them lie to do with them as they choose
    To give them thirteen and a half we ever shall refuse
    They're always willing to receive, but never inclined to give
    And very soon they won't allow a working man to live.

    This would be sung around the pubs in Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham with the hat passed round to help miners striking over a 13.5% wage reduction demand by local coal owners (one of whom might well have been Samuel Tyzack, SAFC's treasurer!). Unfortunately, like nearly all of Armstrong's songs, no date is recorded so we can't be sure about this strike. It was probably 1892, however, when the whole of County Durham was involved. There's an old recording at :
     
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    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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