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The People Must Pay |
Danny Holmes & John Airey |
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My people want to have a celebration To thank me for my fifty years as Queen There’ll be monologues and prestidigitation And every entertainment in between It’s all for my delight and delectation I can hardly wait to see the goings on I’ll be feted as befits my regal station And wear the royal jewels all day long But wait, a thought has rained on my parade Who will pay the bills that must be paid? If they think how much I’ve done Their hearts will all be won Let patriotic fervour be displayed. The Corn Laws, every one repealed The origin of man revealed The concept of magnetic field, what fun Working people proudly boast Telegraph circuits coast to coast The railway and the Penny Post, thank one Chorus: It’s the only civil way, it’s a public holiday The people they must pay It’s clear this reign’s provided great advances In all elements of worldly property By my conduct I’ve been steadfast in my stance as A model of domestic purity One’s subjects won’t object to a collection If city, town and village celebrate Recompense will make sense to the nation They’ll empty their own pockets on a plate How the future’s looking bright We photograph by magnesium light To celebrate this group tonight, how cool Now we all proceed with speed On imperial velocipede And how the empire’s grown indeed, I’m no fool Chorus Mrs Beeton made those washdays quicken Remedial cures to heal the stricken I gave them Coronation Chicken too After such endeavours, it’s perverse To make the sovereign reimburse To have to raid the privy purse won’t do Chorus |
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