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You Oughta' Burn

from Love Hounds n' Fortune Cookies by Gary O'Dea

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Written during the bleak years of Margaret Thatchers reign as Prime Minister in the UK during the 1980's and her legacy of 'dog eat dog'!

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You Oughta’ Burn

The tramping down and ridicule, from your poisoned tongue and your iron rule,
I’d spit in your face oh and how I’d smile, cos you oughta burn for a long, long time.

You baited traps with people’s lives, dug your knife in deep in the back, of the unions spine,
This country’s salt of the earth they got peppered by greed and lies,
Oh you oughta’ burn, for a long, long time.

(Chorus)
Oh lord give me strength, to build me a fire,
The biggest fire this country’s seen in a long, long time,
And if I had my way, oh woman I’d curse your sign,
And tonight you’d burn, for a long, long time.

Now it’s dog eat dog, but then that’s your way,
Cos’ whether we can or cannot well to you we’d still got to pay,
And my granddad reared me up on these few lines,
That the likes of you oughta’ burn, burn, burn for a long, long time.

(Chorus)
Oh lord give me strength, to build me a fire,
The biggest fire this country’s seen in a long, long time,
And if I had my way, oh woman I’d curse your sign,
And tonight you’d burn, for a long, long time.

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I’m gonna’ call me up the ghost of Robin Hood, I’m gonna ask him what to do with these here Poll Tax forms,
And old Guy Fawkes he was of sound judgement and mind,
Cos you really oughta’ burn, for a long, long time,
Oh tonight you’d burn, for a long, long time,
Oh you really oughta’ burn for a long, long time, time, time, time.


Words and Music: Gary O’Dea 1989.

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from Love Hounds n' Fortune Cookies, track released January 1, 1999

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