The Revd
6/8/2013 3:25:00 PM
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 01:00:43 -0500, "Michael Baldwin, Bruce"
<mmbruce@mighty.co.za> wrote:
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>"The Revd" <peeling@degenerate.Griks> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:40:31 -0500, "Michael Baldwin, Bruce"
>> <mmbruce@mighty.co.za> wrote:
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>>>"The Revd" <peeling@degenerate.Griks> wrote in message
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>>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:16:23 -0500, "Michael Baldwin, Bruce"
>>>> <mbbruce@mighty.co.za> wrote:
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>>>>>What a pleasure to be able to applaud my nation in its entirety, rather
>>>>>than
>>>>>just one part of it.
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>>>> You said it, B'ruce!
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>>>> The people's flag is deepest red,
>>>> It shrouded oft our martyr'd dead
>>>> And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
>>>> Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.
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>>>> Then raise the scarlet standard high,
>>>> Within its shade we'll live and die,
>>>> Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
>>>> We'll keep the red flag flying here
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>>>That makes my heart swell, Reverend B'ruce!
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>> As it does mine, B'ruce! Even though it was written by a
>> left wing commie pinko boghopper Irishman.
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>I was not aware of that, Reverend B'ruce.
We sing it as a mark of international socialist solidarity, B'ruce.
Usually, we sing the alternative version, though:
The people?s flag is palest pink
It?s not the colour you might think
The middle classes stand and cheer
The Labour government is here
We?ll change the country bit by bit
So nobody will notice it
And just to show that we?re sincere
We?ll sing The Red Flag once a year
Then raise the scarlet standard high,
Within its shade we'll live and die,
The working class can kiss my arse
I've got the foreman's job at last.