Antiamericancretin

This is my melancholy
My country is a colony
Our once proud nation bowed beneath a baseball bat,
Beneath an ice-cool Cola can

Englishmen! Rise again!
Throw off the yoke of the shake and the Coke!

I walk through each dismal street
Dismayed by time and disease
My eyes once fell upon an English factory
But now the fast-food chains I see

Away shallow USA
Britons will never be slaves!
Cleansed of your bases and your trivial TV
We'll be everything we used to be
Oh, cleansed of your bases and your trivial TV
We'll be everything we used to be

notes:

Malcolm:

This on the other hand I still quite like. At the time (and still today) antiamericanism was a feature of left-wing British thought. It was a purely nationalistic point of view, in that it said that we should 'preserve English culture' against the influence of the Americans. In my view, it is more important for English people to combat English nationalism than American nationalism. This is more or less the subject of the song. I like it particularly because of the style. A lot of it is borrowed from the English poet, William Blake, in particular his poem 'London'.

Appears as a bonus track on the 1990 re-release of I am a Wallet.

found on: I Am a Wallet, The Well of Loneliness

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