Cruel Brittania!

(Tony Lawrie)

A controversially critical song ballad lyrics lamenting how Great Britain has fallen from its greatness on many levels such as morally, culturally, etc, and not just in its former imperial power and status.

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In Britannia's once green and pleasant land A rusting old sceptre still resides By the carcass of a once great Lion She slayed with Her comforting lies Her Capital City - once a standard and light! Now faces backward, and completely dethroned A city of idols, in love with its past But with no justice now for even its own All her shepherd's are foxes and weasals Her ensign, a sad fraud and deceit Her cities not fit for upright men Let alone the heroes that once walked every street For She's gone the way of empires before her Brittania forsook that on which She first stood And now blinded by rewards of crooked paths She can no longer discern evil from good Now Her lions are four empty bronze statues For great Lions aren't for ruling by knaves So 'Fiddle-on' now and watch 'Cruel Brittania!' Sink far beneath her once glorious waves!

© Tony Lawrie 2020

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