Plague Song - Shame in Britain Day / by Rich Hobbs

Today it’s Shame in Britain Day

And we’ve festooned the town in bones,

Coachloads full of local kiddies

Are off to conquer nearby towns

Enslaving everyone - for charity!

     And making sure that they record 

        The whole thing on our phones

And today on Shame in Britain Day

We’ll let the tyres burn

At the massacre re-enactment

Behind the Old Folk’s Home

Before cancelling Best Kept Garden

    Because the best are all owned privately

        And are permanently closed.

Then later on Shame in Britain Day,

We’ll chase away a frown

When we all loot the corner shop

Daub racist slogans on its awnings

Tweet death threats to our neighbours

    And pelt some passing foreigners

        With pocketfuls of stones

Then someone once off Crossroads

Leads the Big Blackface Parade

The WI’s Cooking With Ketamin

In the boarded up arcades

And we’ll vandalise the floral clock

    Before they start the dog fights

        As the closing highlight of Shame in Britain Day

And later on this evening

Inside the no-go zones

We’ll be holding a street party

Feeding babies methadone

Then get drunk and stab the vicar

    Once his dad dancing, we all agree,

        Starts lowering the tone.

And if anyone’s left standing

We’ll raise of a glass of soapy beer

To propose a vote of thanks

To the pushy local worthies

Who’ve packed the Shame Committee

    And will fuck the whole thing up again

        Just like they do each year

But not before they’ve stolen

The sponsorship money raised

From tattooing their own faces

By the local Girls Brigade

And fly-tipping on the promednade

    And the Sea Cadets firebombing

        The migrants’ hostel especially

            For Shame in Britain Day.