Cover di Thank Christ for the Bomb

Thank Christ for the Bomb
Album - 1970 - Debaser id 83609

di The Groundhogs

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Strange Town (04:20)
The Groundhogs • Thank Christ for the Bomb
This is a strange town, people here round don't have no fun.
I've been here two years, I've been lookin' round but I ain't found none.
It seems that all they care about is pointin' people out,
saying stupid things like, "get the lice out your hair".

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I don't believe these people, spend all their time walkin' round lookin' so glum.
They think that life is for workin' to secure their pension when retirement come.
Ah, but they don't realise, it's right before their eyes, life is for livin', right now before you die.

BREAK & SOLO

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Darkness Is No Friend (03:48)
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Shafts of sunlight stealing in my room through the window-pane,
Look like spotlight pointing out the gloom and despair that it contains,
But I would not shut out the sunlight for darkness is no friend.

Shafts of moonlight lighting up the floor, nearly all bare boards,
Few pieces of carpet and nothing more, all I can afford,
But I would not shut out the moonlight for darkness is no friend.

It's so easy to shut your eyes to block out the things that you despise,
Just as easy for the dark of night to blot out thedaylight things that aren't right,(2)

Shafts of sunlight stealing in my room through the window-pane,
Look like spotlight pointing out the gloom and despair that it contains,
But I would not shut out the sunlight for darkness is no friend.
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Soldier (04:55)
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Soldier, fix your bayonet before the enemy come,
'Cos you won't have time, when they start to climb the hill, y'know.

Soldier, when you see 8,000 climbin' up on you,
Don't see them as men, just see them as enemies of the king, y'know.

Soldier, Don't think of runnin', your death is just as sure.
If you don't face it now, you'll face it anyhow in front of the squad, y'know.

Soldier, stand firm in your trenches, don't let them break the line.
Because these dirty Hun are all bastard whore'sons not fit to live, don't you know.
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Thank Christ for the Bomb (07:25)
The Groundhogs • Thank Christ for the Bomb
In 1914 a war began, a million soldiers lent a hand,
Weren't many planes to give support, hand to hand was the way they fought.

Young men were called up for the cause, for king and country and the cross,
In their naivete they thought it was for glory, so they'd been taught.

In 1939 once again there came the sound of marching men,
Occupying European land, all the way to North French sands,

But, in the final year of that war, two big bangs settled the score,
Against Japan, who'd joined the fight, the rising sun didn't look so bright.

Since that day it's been stalemate, everyone's scared to obliterate,
So it seems for peace we can thank the bomb, so I say thank Christ for the bomb (3)
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Ship on the Ocean (03:27)
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I'm like a ship on the ocean that's rolling from side to side,
But I'm not drunk I'm just dissatisfied,
It's not my body but my mind I can't control,
I have everything I need but still.....I want more.

I've done everything that I've ever set out to do,
I become so well known that they've put me in who's who,
But I've reached the limit and I don't know what to do,
If I can't go no further I'll have to go back.....to being poor.

SOLO
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Garden (05:24)
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My garden is all overgrown and the weeds are creeping up on my home,
Grass has grown over two foot high and the trees are blocking out the sky.
French windows won't open any more from the moss that's grown outside the door,
Hundred birds are nesting in the trees, looks like a wild-life sanctuary.

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But I'm not going to cut a single blade of grass, my garden will look just like the distant past,
Before the days of agricultural land, before the time when pebbles turned to sand.
When I leave this house I'm going to stay, I'm forsaking my comforts to live another way,
Get my clothes from heaps, my food from bins, my water from ponds and have tramps for all my friends.

BREAK

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Eccentric Man (04:56)
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My chest is a 36, my overcoat is for a 42.
My trousers end 6 inches from the ground, 3 inches from my shoe,
Tied up with a piece of string and held together with fish-bone glue.

Call me an eccentric man, I don't believe I am ( 2)

My bed is a park bench and my sheet and blankets are newspaper pages.
The people think I'm crazy, but I know I'm wiser than all the sages,
'cos I have money they think that I'm a fool for doing what I do, but I know it's right.

Call me an eccentric man, I don't believe I am (2)

SOLO IN E

If ever I want to I can have the comfort of my country home.
But until that time I'm quite content to have walls made of gravestones,
a carpet of moss, a ceiling of sky and a brown rat for a watch-dog.

Call me an eccentric man, I don't believe I am (2)

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