[00:00.00]A Question Of Sport - Martin Carthy
[00:09.43]Oh I am humanity cast in the flood
[00:12.72]Waive your liberty as I come among you
[00:15.96]I ride the ark on a sea of blood
[00:18.76]They call me the Great Azania
[00:21.59]I soared like the dove released in the air
[00:24.37]When they tossed me
[00:25.04]Through the window tied to a chair
[00:27.45]I landed in the middle of Trafalgar Square
[00:30.19]Come to visit all your bad dreams upon you
[00:33.06]Now the first that I met when I came into land
[00:36.41]Was the Grantham grocer's daughter
[00:39.40]She cried aloud
[00:40.58]How sorry I am
[00:42.11]There wasn't anybody here for to caught you
[00:45.28]She crooned in my ear like I knew she could
[00:48.11]Her Cabinet briefing on the misunderstood
[00:51.00]Bathed my wounds in my very own blood
[00:53.77]Calling on the world press to support her
[00:56.55]Oh the cameras rattled and the questions flew
[00:59.81]Everybody sang Rule Britannia
[01:02.86]Cabinet jumped up two by two
[01:05.70]Joining in with their own memoranda
[01:08.40]They went maximum leverage minimum force
[01:11.58]You get your dividend but you gotta stay the course
[01:14.37]They sang as they all trooped off to the house
[01:17.20]God save our gracious TINA
[01:41.83]Oh they knew by the bruising around my body
[01:44.81]I clearly was a threat to the nation
[01:47.57]They knew that menace to life and limb
[01:50.52]Was a matter of interpretation
[01:53.12]They had me down
[01:54.02]At the dog track running like a hare
[01:56.21]I was huge on the replay screens up there
[01:59.25]Crowds flung their hats in the air
[02:02.03]Marvelling at my acceleration
[02:04.96]Oh they heard me cry when I fell among thieves
[02:08.10]The billy club beat a tattoo on me
[02:11.02]Joined the brokers and crowded the eaves
[02:13.91]Jostling to get the best view of me
[02:16.15]They sang
[02:16.69]Suffer little children and
[02:18.07]See how they run
[02:19.16]As the tear gas flew and the sjamboks sang
[02:22.00]Still as the white-walled necklace burned
[02:24.76]They prayed out aloud for their piece of me
[02:29.87]Oh the birdmen of Pollsmoor ranged in the dark
[02:33.05]Rand man come to saddle up and ride them
[02:36.20]Birdmen of Pollsmoor built them an ark
[02:39.07]No divine telegram to guide 'em
[02:42.19]Rand man shouted rand man cajoled
[02:44.65]Did the township jive for photo call
[02:47.58]The words of the birdmen spangled the wall
[02:50.34]A weeping tear gas diadem
[02:52.69]He said I am humanity cast in the flood
[02:55.91]Waive your liberty as I come among you
[02:59.08]I ride the ark on a sea of blood
[03:01.75]They call me the Great Azania
[03:04.49]I soared like the dove released in the air
[03:07.30]You left me for dead at the foot of the stair
[03:10.27]And when I rise in the middle of Trafalgar Square
[03:13.60]Resurrection's all around you