Good day!
LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE
Do you remember the day
When if you said that you were gay
It meant with joy you could sing and shout ?
A fairy was enchanting,
And dressing up and camping
Was something you did with the Scouts
That carefree age
When an urgent case of AIDS
Was powdered milk we sent to the Sahara.
A fruit was something nice to eat,
A poof was something for your feet,
And a queen was an old tart in a tiara.
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Look what we’ve done
To the old mother tongue,
It’s a crime the way we’ve misused it.
It’s been totally diswobbled, pulverised and gollywabbled;
We’ve strangled, fangled, mangled and abused it.
Those far off times
When a bong meant a chime,
And a buzz was a noisy insecticidal.
A joint was something between bones,
And getting really stoned
Only happened to bad people in the Bible.
When if you had a bad trip
It meant you fell and broke your hip;
Cold turkey just meant Christmas meat and tatties.
Coke was something that you burned,
Smack was something that you earned
From your mumsy-wumsy when you had been naughty.
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The years have gone I’m afraid
When only eggs got laid
And only the rhinoceros got horny.
Only kangaroos jumped,
Only camels got humped;
Getting stuffed meant a little taxidermy.
Swinging was for trapezes
Or Tarzan’s chimpanzeeses,
Tossing off was something Scotsmen did with cabers -
You’ll know just what that means,
But a really ugly scene
Was any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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