Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg - England, Half English lyrics
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My mother was half English and I'm half English too I'm a great big bundle of culture, tied up in the red white and blue I'm a fine example of your Essex man And I'm well familiar with the Hindustan 'Cause my neighbors are half English and I'm half English too My breakfast was half English and so am I, you know I had a plate of Marmite soldiers, washed down with a cappuccino And I have a veggie curry about once a week The next day I fry it up as bubble and squeak 'Cause my appetites, half English and I'm half English too Dance with me to this very English melody From morris dancing to Morrissey All that stuff came from across the sea Britannia, she's half English, she speaks Latin at home St. George was born in the Lebanon, how he got here I don't know And those three lions on your shirt They never sprang from England's dirt Them lions are half English and I'm half English too Le-li, umma le-li-ya, le-li Umma le-li-ya Le-li, umma le-li-ya, bledi g'desh akh! le-li-ya Oh, my country, what a beautiful country you are