Reunion Chorus Songbook

56: Home Office Pritnic (to the tune of The Teddy Bears' Picnic)

If you go out on the streets today You’re in for a big surprise

If you go out on the streets today You’d better go in disguise

‘Cos Priti Patel, the Home Sec from hell,

Has taken away your right to rebel

And given Police the right

To decide you’re annoying.


Protests near to Parliament,

Have been outlawed,

You’ll find you can’t

Get close to have your say

And to stop you being heard

The cops could ban you if your name’s Steve Bray

Watch us freely march about

We love to sing and shout.

Whenever you fail to care

If you think you can shut us all up

You had better think again

Because we’re wired little teddy bears


You might have once thought

That we were allowed

To say what we had to say

Now being a Brit means

Zipping your lip and

Being kept far away

From people in power, you self-serving shower,

You get more repressive hour by hour

It’s Putin Patel we'd lock up for being annoying


Protests near to Parliament,

Have been outlawed,

You’ll find you can’t

Get close to have your say

And to stop you being heard

The cops could ban you if your name’s Steve Bray

Watch us freely march about

We love to sing and shout.

Whenever you fail to care

If you think you can shut us all up

You had better think again

Because we’re wired little teddy bears

Because we’re wired little teddy bears

 

Copyright asserted. Words revised 30 July 2021 by Martin Brooks