A Question Of Sport - Martin Carthy

A Question Of Sport - Martin Carthy
Oh I am humanity cast in the flood
Waive your liberty as I come among you
I ride the ark on a sea of blood
They call me the Great Azania
I soared like the dove released in the air
When they tossed me
Through the window tied to a chair
I landed in the middle of Trafalgar Square
Come to visit all your bad dreams upon you
Now the first that I met when I came into land
Was the Grantham grocer's daughter
She cried aloud
How sorry I am
There wasn't anybody here for to caught you
She crooned in my ear like I knew she could
Her Cabinet briefing on the misunderstood
Bathed my wounds in my very own blood
Calling on the world press to support her
Oh the cameras rattled and the questions flew
Everybody sang Rule Britannia
Cabinet jumped up two by two
Joining in with their own memoranda
They went maximum leverage minimum force
You get your dividend but you gotta stay the course
They sang as they all trooped off to the house
God save our gracious TINA
Oh they knew by the bruising around my body
I clearly was a threat to the nation
They knew that menace to life and limb
Was a matter of interpretation
They had me down
At the dog track running like a hare
I was huge on the replay screens up there
Crowds flung their hats in the air
Marvelling at my acceleration
Oh they heard me cry when I fell among thieves
The billy club beat a tattoo on me
Joined the brokers and crowded the eaves
Jostling to get the best view of me
They sang
Suffer little children and
See how they run
As the tear gas flew and the sjamboks sang
Still as the white-walled necklace burned
They prayed out aloud for their piece of me
Oh the birdmen of Pollsmoor ranged in the dark
Rand man come to saddle up and ride them
Birdmen of Pollsmoor built them an ark
No divine telegram to guide 'em
Rand man shouted rand man cajoled
Did the township jive for photo call
The words of the birdmen spangled the wall
A weeping tear gas diadem
He said I am humanity cast in the flood
Waive your liberty as I come among you
I ride the ark on a sea of blood
They call me the Great Azania
I soared like the dove released in the air
You left me for dead at the foot of the stair
And when I rise in the middle of Trafalgar Square
Resurrection's all around you