The Mufty Day Riots Cifras

Mufty Day Riots by Jim Bob
 
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I don't know how it started, but it began around eleven
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It was worse than the Red Nose Day riots of 1997
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Mr Herringbone could not have known the horrors he'd unleash
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When he declared a no-school-uniform day for local charities
 
 
[Verse 2]
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Now the deputy headmaster is with Mr Herringbone
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At the window of the staffroom shouting through a megaphone
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He says get back to your lessons now, as the building is attacked
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Then from the window of the staffroom he read the mufty riot act
 
 
[Verse 3]
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To all the kids dressed in their Adidas, their Reebok and their Nike
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And the boy whose Vans were second-hand, all the others called him pikey
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The caretaker appealed for calm, the librarian for quiet
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But nobody knew how to stop the mufty day riots
 
 
[Instrumental]
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[Chorus]
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And black and white, and straight and gay
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Would all unite on mufty day
 
 
[Verse 4]
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The food fight in the dinner hall was a forty-minute gunge-fest
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There was chocolate pudding on the walls, it was like a dirty protest
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From the H-blocks, Mr Burton said, from the 1970s
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In the midst of all this madness he was still teaching History
 
 
[Verse 5]
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To the Dolce & Gabbana, to the Burberry and to those
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In the Marilyn Manson T-shirts and the long black leather coats
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There was anarchy and chaos, there was looting, there were fires
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And still no-one knew how to stop the mufty day riots
 
 
[Chorus]
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And black and white, and straight and gay
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Would all unite on mufty day
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And words and deeds are noble but
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Sometimes you need to smash things up
 
 
[Solo]
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[Verse 6]
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The riots spread from the dinner hall across the football field
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The PE teacher stood there like a one-man human shield
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He stood there with his outstretched hands as the goalposts were uprooted
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He couldn't understand why anyone could be so stupid
 
 
[Verse 7]
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The PTA would later blame designer label envy
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And the lack of some religion in the school's assembly
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If the kids believed in something more than coats and mobile phones
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Then they wouldn't be on the roof of the Art Department throwing stones
 
 
[Verse 8]
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They were armed and they were dangerous, and some of them were drunk
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A group of tabloid journalists was telling them to jump
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They were just about to build a bonfire for the teachers on the top
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And then as quickly as the riot started, suddenly it stopped
 
 
[Chorus]
    Am         G          B7          Em
And black and white, and straight and gay
      Am   G        B7  Em
Would all unite on mufty day
     Am       G       B7    Em
And words and deeds are noble but
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Sometimes you need to smash things up
 
 
[Outro]
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