Something About England - Remastered

They say immigrants steal the hubcaps
 Of the respected gentlemen
 They say it would be wine an' roses
 If england were for englishmen again
 Well I saw a dirty overcoat
 At the foot of the pillar of the road
 Propped inside was an old man
 Whom time would not erode
 When the night was snapped by sirens
 Those blue lights circled fast
 The dancehall called for an' ambulance
 The bars all closed up fast
 My silence gazing at the ceiling
 While roaming the single room
 I thought the old man could help me
 If he could explain the gloom
 You really think it's all new
 You really think about it too
 The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
 I'll tell you a thing or two
 I missed the fourteen-eighteen war
 But not the sorrow afterwards
 With my father dead and my mother ran off
 My brothers took the pay of hoods
 The twenties turned the north was dead
 The hunger strike came marching south
 At the garden party not a word was said
 The ladies lifted cake to their mouths
 The next war began and my ship sailed
 With battle orders writ in red
 In five long years of bullets and shells
 We left ten million dead
 The few returned to old piccadily
 We limped around leicster square
 The world was busy rebuilding itself
 The architects could not care
 But how could we know when I was young
 All the canges that were to come?
 All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
 And now the terror of the scientific sun
 There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
 They taught you how to touch your cap
 But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
 England never closed this gap
 So leave me now the moon is up
 But remember all the tales I tell
 The memories that you have dredged up
 Are on letters forwarded from hell
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 The streets were by now deserted
 The gangs had trudged off home
 The lights clicked off in the bedsits
 An' old england was all alone