Real Great Britain Lyrics - Asian Dub Foundation

Written by: das, pandit, savale, tailor, zaman 

Union jack and union jill 

Back up and down the same old hill 

Sell the flag to the youths 

But who swallows the bill 

"murdoch she wrote" 

Him have his hand in the till 

Blairful of thatcher 

Stuck on the 45 

The suits have changed 

But the old ties survive 

New britannia cool 

Who are you trying to fool? 

Behind your fashion-tashion I see nothing at all 

Care for the commodity 

Cuts the nation into three 

Rich pickings for the first 

Bottom third you never see 

While middle england keeps swinging its 

Loyalty 

No concern for the future 

Just with dead royalty 

So will the real, the real great britan 

Step forward 

This is the national identity parade 

Shoe gazer nation forever looking 

Backwards 

Time to reject the sixties charade 

Not enough schools 

Not enough homes 

Just "phony care" in his millennium dome 

More prime cuts than beef on the bone 

And there's too many questions you're 

Not answering tone 

Union jack and union jill 

Back up and down the same old hill 

Sell the flag to the youths 

But who swallows the bill 

"murdoch she wrote" 

Him have his hand in the till 

So will the real, the real great britan 

Step forward 

This is the national identity parade 

Shoe gazer nation forever looking 

Backwards 

Time to reject the sixties charade