the few

billy bragg

at night the baby brotherhood and the inter city crew

fill their pockets up with calling cards

and paint their faces red white and blue

then they go out seeking different coloured faces

and anyone else that they can scare

and they salute the foes their fathers fought

by raising their right hands in the air

oh look how my country's patriots are hunting down below

what do they know of england who only england know?

from the stands of the empire stadium

come the heralds of the new dark age

with the simplicities of bigotry

and to whom all the world's a stage

these little john bullshits know that the press

will glorify their feats

so that the general public fear them

and the authorities say give 'em all seats

and the wasted seed of the bulldog breed

is shouting here we go!"