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QZ3AK2000073 - Canaries

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lyrics

Lloyd George knew my father
Father knew Lloyd George
He stayed at home and dug for coal
To wage the First World War
Why was he born so beautiful?
Why was he born at all?
An old canary on his perch - we wait to see him fall

It’s a pretty gift to serve the king
And march off to the front
A place so wonderful they seldom
Bother to come back
As gas rolls through the trenches
The early warning sounds
Clinging to the ceiling in black tunnels underground

Rolled up on a pigeon’s leg
In Morse code on the wire
News of the explosion told of
Gas and rock and fire
So I came home a new born babe
To see is to believe
Curled up, trembling at the hearth
Absent without leave

Singing “Onward Christian Soldiers”
With the Colliery brass band
We buried those recovered
With their pay-books in their hands
Lloyd George knew my father
But my father was not found
He wears a crown of anthracite
In darkness underground

The home fires burn and even
Mrs. Pankhurst got in line
Kaiser Bill was on the run
And victory is thine
And shell-shocked young deserters
Were lined up against the wall
Canaries falling to the earth - A warning to us all

The best will choke in darkness both
On Flanders mud and slag
A pretty gift to put before
The Empire and the flag
Why were they born so beautiful?
Why were they born at all?
Canaries will fall from their perch
If danger should befall

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from Freakons, released March 25, 2022

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Mekons + Freakwater = FREAKONS

Freakwater and the Mekons have joined forces to sing songs about coal mining. FREAKONS, the new eponymously-titled album on Fluff & Gravy Records, is the first fruit of this visionary musical union. ... more

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