Libretto


RULE BRITANNIA: a low opera in grand shite style

OVERTURE
(instrumental)


OF PROVIDENCE
V1 Bollocksed.
V2 Done!
V1 Pathetic.
V2 Sad as shite.
V1 Buggerd it right.
V2 Thought we were so clued up.
V1 Bothched up more like.
V2 Bodged... bleeding bodged!
V1 We've a right to cob on about it.
V2 Argue the toss if we bloody want!
V1 Bang on...
V2 It's a bit of in the air...
V1 - Had our day.
V2 - An a bit of more.
V1 Bloody right we did.
V2 We fecken ruled.
V1 Determined the future of bloody nations.
V2 That's the stuff.
V1 We crippled the fecken crippled piled the
     bodies centuries high.
V2 To right!
V1 Rule the waves we did.
V2 By bloody sword, an' cross an'...
V1 - bloody air!
V2 - bloody air - dropped terror from
     the skies-
V1 - and lye mark.
V2 - we reined.
V1 - Ruled.
V2 - We ruled.
V1 - made civil nations.
V2 - made nations.
V1 - had a bit of a time with history.
V2 - bit of a spree.
V1 - bit of tyranny.
V2 Well shite THE CUT WORM FORGIVES THE PLOUGH!
V1 We bloody hope it does.
V2 Yes, the road to excess leads to wisdom.
V1 Yes, the bastarding nation of the
     bloody clued up.
V2 Brilliant...
V1 To say the least...
V2 Bleeding brilliant like...
V1 Like I said.
V2 We heard yea.
V1 Well I hope yeah heard me.
V2 Did...
V1 Well I hope so.
V2 Did...
V1 Britannia ruled - it fecken ruled... and none
     of you would know it as it is if we didn't.
V2 Bloody rights.
V1 That's box clever.
V2 You said it.
V1 We had our day so you could have all this.
V2 You already said that.
V1 Well it's worth saying again...
V2 To right... To right.


FOREKNOWLEDGE
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor

Our leaders march with fuses
And we with hand grenades
God save your mad parade
All crimes are paid

And guardian angels sung the strain
Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!
Briton never shall be slaves.

Tore its chords asunder
No chains shall sully thee
Thou soul of love and bravery
Songs made for the pure and free

Still with freedom found
Thy happy coast repair
Hearts to guard the fair
Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!
Briton never shall be slaves.

Oh God save history
Oh lord God have mercy

I vow to thee my country
All earthly things above
Entire and whole and perfect
The service of my love

Oh God save history
Oh lord God have mercy
There's no future no future

We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future you're future
England's dreaming
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy

Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor
Are we just another country
Another council tenancy

When there's no future
How can there be sin
I mean it man:
Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!
Briton never shall be slaves.

----

he was a pretty-boy
at first sight I was thinking
backs to the wall girl!
yeh know, chutney ferret!

but after a bit of him givin me the glad eye
from across the pub I changed me mind

what a bit of stuff he was
bags I went right over like
and put one on him
without sayin a word
it was brilliant like

arse over tit for him I was
he was box clever
real clued up

was a while, since I got off with someone
yeh know, got my end away!
had a bit of a fluff, a while ago, but didn't last
so I was a bit of a spare

I was gagging for it
got him in me room
got his kick off
down to our under crackers we were

stood there all hands and shite
him on me paps and neck
me pitching his tent

then off comes the alans
an what a brilliant donger!
A real prize!

onto the bed
getting off into a tangle
his chopper bringing it off right
me diddies in a swing
toppin his lap
carrying on on all fours
sweatin and laughing like

oh, he was a good roll
"give it some welly boy!"
"give it some welly!"
he brought me off good and quick!
and stayed around for some more

yeh he was a bit of all right
a real good one to bunk with for a night.

WILL
Shite, naybody spoke
She was goin' doun
a monarchy sad as feck

Me sitting pleased as shite
Watchin on the telly
Another old girl gone doun

So anyway, I'm feckin sick of it
Is this the M.P.L.A.?
Or the U.D.A.?
Or the I.R.A.?
It thought it was the U.K.!

Aye, I've gone an said it.
Nah, I shouldnay
But feck the Queen anywhy
Yeh, feck the Queen anywhy

God save yer own bloady mad parade
God save yer own god damned Englands Dreaming
God save yer own bloady shat sod arse

Don't try feck all
Cause God will save his damn Queen
God saves his damn Queen
Little room fer a sod like ye and me

Nay, I know shouldnay
There's gonna be hell to pay
I'll burn fre sher they say
Taken them all in curse like that

But feck em anywhy
Feck ye all anywhy
Yeh, feck the Queen anywhy

I know what'll ye wehl say:
Mind what ye say!
Nah, ye shouldnay!
But feck ye all anywhy

I mean it man, feckin hell
Don't try feck all
cause they made you a moron
Potential a-bomb
They made you love her man
cuz tourists are money
cuz yer god have mercy
cuz it's the only way to be

I mean it man, feckin hell
Don't try feck all
Cause there's nay future
Nay future fer ye
Nay future, nay future fer me

That's right, I'm feckin sick of it
Sad as fuck it is
An I know what ye'll say:
Mind what ye say!

But fecken hell anywhy
Yeh, feck it:
Feck the Queen anywhy!
An feck what ye'll say!

AND FATE
Newcastle United Football Team Song
(to the tune of 'Daydream Believer')

Barnet Football Team Song
(to the tune of 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina')

FIXED FATE
(instrumental)

FREE WILL
Arm yourselves men of valor
Be in readiness for us to perish
Our nation and our altar

Offer but blood
Toil, tears and sweat

Still masters of our fate
A child of the House of Commons
Brought up to believe in democracy

I cannot help reflecting
I cannot help
I cannot

Men are proud to be the servants
Of State
Ashamed to be it's masters

This was their finest hour
Never in the field of human conflict
Was so much owed
By so many
To so few
So many
So few

This is not the end
But perhaps it's the end of the beginning
The beginning of the end
The beginning of the end

This is the war of the unknown warriors
We shall fight on the beaches
We shall fight on the landing grounds
We shall fight in the fields
In the streets
In the hills
We shall never surrender

Never give in-never, never, never, never!
In nothing great or small, large of petty
Never yield to force
Or the overwhelming might of the enemy
Never, never, never, never...

FOREKNOWLEDGE ABSOLUTE
bolady Nora!
I missed the bastarding show again
on the telly, the Beep
boched me fecken plan

so I calls up me mate Cara
and we decide to go arse-about for a few
just a few

the Britneys were flowing
and we get chin wagging

Cara is a bit of a blooming idiot
she's one of me bezzy mates
take the piss out of eachother we do

and here comes the boss-eyed pervy
common as muck: bloady prannet!
Mr Action man!
billy no mates!
all mouth no trousers
stands there borin the tits off us
bangin on about every bastarding
detail of his feckin bleeding life
thick as pig shite he is
poucing about like an barmcake

"crimp off a length of yr rubbish elsewhere"
come out of Cara
you wouldn't twatting believe it
she dropped a clanger there.
all to cock we were
yelling an goin on

three sheets to the wind
and getting a build-on in the throne
we sparked the chunder and chonge on it till
fully bollocksed

we were twatfaced!
bevvied up and tear-arsing around the club
with the beer goggles on
twatting boxed we were!
ballsed-up bladdered!
trolley-blunted!

half way through
Cara started driving the porcelain bus
so I put her in a car and sent her off

I caught my hold with a few lines of Charley

and then he came on
bump starting the party
with a great starter set

oh, it was brillian as fuck!
I was a firecracker goin off
dancing and spinnin round
I was grand as feck on that dance floor
got on in to it

the beats were bringing me off
there was no stopin it
I was the air
I was the music
it was me whole fucking life coming off on that moment
the feckin whole place was coming off
building with real clued-up DJ
coming round
brining us all around

it was a bloody great time!
a bloody great time...

AND FOUND NO END
V1 I'm a feelin' a bit o' weakness in the knees
V2 A bit of a wobble-on?
V1 Week in the knees is all.
V2 Is yeh' bein' metaporic love?
V1 Nay love, quite specific like.
V2 Are yeh' talkin' for the nation or yerself?
V1 A bit of the both.
V2 I'd - venture tis' the same.
V1 Finished or what?
V2 Are yea talking bout us, or it?
V1 The thing love...the bloody thing!
V2 The goings on yeh mean?
V1 All the great bloody British shite- end of the nation an ol'
V2 It is over... I'd think.
V1 We'll I've got little else to say.
V2 Nay shite... right bout' that!

IN WANDERING MAZE LOST
(God save the Queen/King)