Union Songs

History

A song by Aidan Jolly©2006 Aidan Jolly

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White Man's burden sun never sets
Teaching the natives to never forget
We're here for your own good: civilisation
Way to pay for your colonisation
This is your histry: histry is victry
Victry's oppression truth is regressing
Sitting in the classroom, setting in the mould
Hear what is hidden, story never told

You have to learn to be the Master Race
You have to lie with a smiling face
You have to ask "Whose hope, whose glory?"
You have to ask "Who tells the story?"

Post war boom Land of Opportunity
A Great British Welcome cleaning the khazi
Reconstruct: don't stop with buildings
The old foundations they got filled in
This is your history memories are fading
Persuade the children it was just fair trading
Forget the blood washed in the sea
Just chalk on the black board repeat after me repeat after me repeat after me

You have to learn to be the Master Race
You have to lie with a smiling face
You have to ask "Whose hope, whose glory?"
You have to ask "Who tells the story?"

Draw lines in the sand around your mind
Invent a nation to force emigration
From old colonies you say we're not enemies
But it's still your history that makes us refugees
You name the nations you state the aims
For global business planning games
The name was 'slave' now the aim is 'oil'
You write histry and the lie is sold

Histry is victry memories are fading
Persuade all the children it was just fair trading
Forget the blood washed into the sea
Just chalk on the black board repeat after me repeat after me repeat after me

You have to learn to be the Master Race
You have to lie with a smiling face
You have to ask "whose hope, whose glory?"
You have to ask "Who tells the story?"

Notes

Many thanks to Aidan Jolly, Musician - Digital Artist - Community Artist, for permission to add this song to the Union Songs collection.

This song is on his 2006 CD "System Fault".

Visit Aidan's website at http://www.aidanjolly.com

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