Bullingdon Boys

SONG COMPOSERS, LYRICS AND BACKGROUND

LYRICS

It’s not a pretty sight
The lads are out tonight
They long to give their all
With backs against the wall

The game’s one upmanship
Be sure they’ll let it rip
We’ll have to have a go
In our comedy horror show

It’s not a pantomime
In life one needs to climb
Things can only get much better
Bitter, better, butter, mutter

We are the bully boys
Move late at night, don’t make much noise
Up the stairs from the den
Followed by our Batmen

We’s are the chosen few
And we’s are coming through
And we knows just what to do
It’s robbin’ to the rescue

The Eton Boys are undefiled
The Bullingdon Boys, running wild
And England slides into the mist
No hope they’ll cease nor desist

We are the chancers brigade
And we’ll have you flogged and flayed
Sadly no room left at the top
Move along back to your sweatshops

We’s are the chosen few
And we’s are coming through
And we knows just what to do
It’s robbin’ to the rescue

Well, we worked our fingers to the bone
It’s not as if we was alone
There’s people needing to be paid
And there’s booty – boys – to be made!
All hands on deck!

Eton Boys are undefiled
The Bullingdon Boys, running wild
And England slides into the mist
No hope they’ll cease nor desist

They’re making England Great Again
But make way for the bagmen
When everything’s been sold and bought
We’ll soon be off the life support

This is an English public school. This is where Britain raised its empire. Builders of yesterday. And still trains the leaders of tomorrow…

We’re making England Great Again
But make way for the bagmen
When everything’s been sold and bought
We’ll soon be off the life support

COMPOSERS

ComposerRole
Mike Barson Music & Words

BACKGROUND

Madness today unveil snap release ‘Bullingdon Boys’. The seminal British pop band’s first new music since 2016, ‘Bullingdon Boys’ is a self explanatory, barbed swipe at the charlatans, rotters and chancers at the top of the tree who have done their best to take the shine off 2019.

The lads were puzzling over the fact of how was it possible that in Great Britain with 24,000 Schools 19 of the 54 Prime Ministers all came from Eton… How Remarkable!

Apparently a famous statistician from Bern in Switzerland crunched the numbers.. He concluded that the chances of 19 Prime Ministers coming from one and the same class were very close to…. ZERO!

“More f*cking chance of being hit by lightning in a nuclear bunker” he said.

And yet here we are with 19 (of 54) Prime Ministers coming from Eton. Not even to mention other cabinet ministers. David Cameron for example had 13 classmates in his front bench team!

The Bern professor said he had difficulty collating this phenomena within the definition of ‘fair play’.

…and so the boys felt a need to write a song about it.

Presented without further comment, Ladies and Gents, we give you ‘Bullingdon Boys’.

References

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Record Label Lucky 7 Records

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