Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher

[BiteUrLip]

Music: Elton John

Lyrics: Lee Hall

piano, vocals: Elton John

electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals: Davey Johnstone

drums: Nigel Olsson

keyboards, programming: Guy Babylon

bass, backing vocals: Bob Birch

percussion: John Mahon

backing vocals: Gary Barlow, Rick Astley

Can you hear it in the distance

Can you sense it far away

Is it old Rudolph the reindeer

Is it Santa on his sleigh

It's heading up to Easington

It's coming down the Tyne

Oh it's bloddy Maggie Thatcher

And Michael Heseltine


chorus:


So merry Christmas MaggieThatcher

May God's love be with you

We all sing together in one breath

Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher

We all celebrate today

'Cause it's one day closer to your death


They've come to raid your stockings

And to steal your Christmas pud

But don't be too downhearted

It's all for your own good

The economic infrastructure

Must be swept away

To make way for call centres

And lower rates of pay


(repeat chorus)


And they've brought their fascist boot boys

And they've brought the boys in blue

And the whole Trade Union Congress

Will be at the party too

And they'll all hold hands together

All standing in a line

'Cause they're privatising Santa

This merry Christmas time


(repeat chorus)


(repeat chorus)


Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Heseltine

You're a tosser, you're a tosser

And you're just a Tory Swine

[BiteUrLip]

Would be an excellent Xmas song with kinder lyrics...

2 stars.

[newloneranger]

I guess Elton didn't like Maggie Thatcher too much! He's entitled to his opinion. I don't know too much about her , If I recall she was the PM when Reagan was president. The song itself is funny, I laugh every time I hear it.

4 stars

[rocketman]

4.5 stars...whatever one's views of the Iron Lady, this song is fun. In Britain, there were many hard feelings toward Thatcher's policies, and this song obviously reflects that. While I normally tend to dismiss Bernie's lyrics as being tongue-in-cheek, this one is written by Lee Hall, about whom I know nothing. But he could be doing what Bernie often did, which is writing about something without necessarily espousing the viewpoint personally.

Whatever the case, I just like the song, period.