《The Brigadier》歌词

[00:00:00] The Brigadier - Jake Thackray

[00:00:10] Up where we live we've

[00:00:11] Got everything

[00:00:12] We've got a cuckoo and

[00:00:13] A nightingale

[00:00:14] We've got a shop and

[00:00:15] Chapel and a boozer

[00:00:17] And a little jail

[00:00:19] We've got a brain-sick

[00:00:20] Witch and a cricket pitch

[00:00:21] We've got a pump and

[00:00:22] A duck pond here

[00:00:23] A vicar and a blacksmith

[00:00:24] And a local idiot

[00:00:26] And a brigadier a frigging brigadier

[00:00:32] Let the caravans come

[00:00:35] Let the charabancs roll

[00:00:37] Tripping our hills picking our daffodils

[00:00:40] Getting stuck in our holes

[00:00:41] We don't care

[00:00:46] We don't mind trippers

[00:00:47] And scouts and ramblers

[00:00:49] They can come and stand

[00:00:50] In the rain all day

[00:00:51] They give us money and beer

[00:00:52] And a right good belly laugh

[00:00:54] Then they go away

[00:00:55] But who pins medals on the chests of our children

[00:00:58] Who pins a rose on our biggest pig's ear

[00:01:00] Who pins a little red poppy

[00:01:01] On our cenotaph

[00:01:03] A brigadier a frigging brigadier

[00:01:09] Let the bearded wonders come

[00:01:12] Whether we like or not

[00:01:14] They squat in the cottages

[00:01:15] Of our ancestors

[00:01:16] Making bloody pottery we don't care

[00:01:23] We get drunk we get rowdy

[00:01:25] And we get nicked when

[00:01:27] The flatfeet come

[00:01:28] How are we judged

[00:01:29] By whose almighty

[00:01:31] Finger and thumb

[00:01:32] Not by bacchus's not by jupiter's

[00:01:34] Not by solomon's we're summonsed to appear

[00:01:37] Underneath the beak of

[00:01:38] His week-a-day worship

[00:01:39] A brigadier a frigging brigadier

[00:01:46] Let the rain-god come

[00:01:48] Spitter and spat and spout

[00:01:51] At least he's a god who is impartial

[00:01:54] He waggles it about we don't care

[00:02:00] On a sunday when the vicar

[00:02:01] Admonishes our wickedness

[00:02:02] Whose amen resounds down the aisle

[00:02:04] Who reads the sermon

[00:02:05] On the mount with a holy

[00:02:07] Ghost of a smile

[00:02:09] Who takes the wine who takes the biscuit

[00:02:11] Who brings the plate who bends the ear

[00:02:14] Singing of his hopes for a new jerusalem

[00:02:16] A brigadier a frigging brigadier

[00:02:23] Let god's pale archangel the Grim reaper come

[00:02:28] He can hack my bones he can step upon my gravestone

[00:02:30] He can kiss my bum I don't care

[00:02:37] If he wants my chimneys

[00:02:38] If he wants my acres

[00:02:39] If he wants my trout if he wants my grouse

[00:02:41] If he wants gold and silver titbits

[00:02:44] He's got the wrong house

[00:02:45] He can rattle my latch bang my knocker

[00:02:48] There's not one whit of a titbit here

[00:02:50] Go tap with his dainty sickle

[00:02:52] On the windowpane

[00:02:53] Of the brigadier

[00:02:54] The frigging brigadier