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We drove past Frome (see previous track) to perform the show described here. "So what was all that about?" said our suddenly very edgy London driver/guy who played the historian to whoever was giving him grief about the car. I made sure that phrase was included in the lyric and we sang it as part of the show later.

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Went down West to Glastonbury

To the hippy revolution:

Romans dressed as Celts, and yippies

Snorting fine solutions,

Weekend greens on ganga grass

Treading cowshit-hell pollution,

We parked the car and pitched the tent

And the pigs told us to move ’em

Move the tent to the left,

Move the car to the right

You don't have any ri-i-i-i-ights

And we don't want to be

The "Offender"

We don't want to be,

The "Offender-oo-er"

We came here to play

Queen Boudicca

But the Romans have take N over oo er
Eighty five quid and no concessions, so

What was all that about ‘open’?

Bankers, wankers, bread-head merch

It's a capitalist org-a- sm:

They've raised a market in the fields,

With a thousand kinds of freedom,

Fifteen stages, 100,000 ways

And an endless shift between them!

Take a walk to the left (piss in a hedge)

Trudge a mile to the right (sleep in a stream)

You're in hell toni-i-i-i-i-ight

And we wanted to be

In Avalon

And we thought we would be

In Avalon and on....

We came here to play

Queen Boudicca

But the Romans have take

N over oo er…

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from Last of the Iceni: The Story of Boudicca, released June 18, 2021
Tune Strummer/Jones, parody lyrics Calway

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Peacock's Tale Musical Storytelling Sedgeford, UK

It's all right, folks, we're married. A marriage of melody and rhythm ( flirting with harmony & timbre.) Old married woke folk, indie, Norfolk noir, beat poems, ghazals & Americana for the world from NW Norfolk. Maz lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar. Gaz lead & harmony vocals, drum & bass. Traditional tunes with contemporary beats.
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