Plague Songs - The Public School Ethos / by Rich Hobbs

Do Etonians eat onions

With a Georgian silver spoon?

Do Harrovians drive horror vans

Beneath a blood red moon?

Are all Alleynians aliens,

Green Martians neath the skin?

Do Wykehamists hold wiccan rites

And sacrifice their kin?

Are Carthusians Cartesians,

Just dualistic boobs?

And do Salopians hatch from eggs

And not fallopian tubes?

Do Roedeanians ride on

Rhodesian ridgebacks?

Have any of these brats suffered

From physical attacks?

Do Marlburians smoke Malboros?

Are Stoics stoic? (Yes I know,

But this is what they call those pricks

Who went to school at Stowe)

And do Fettesians fetishise

How fitting is the fate

Of children who are taught to think

They’re smart, and good, and great?

But eliminate alumni

And I’m told you’ll find the jobs

The nation needs done urgently

Will all be done by yobs,

Unschooled and undependable,

And simply the wrong tool

To sort out track and trace or PPE,

And why? Wrong school!

But if you ask a favour

From a nice Public School kid

There’s every chance they’ll do it

For under a million quid!