(Tune: Miner's Lifeguard)
Do you hear the H-bomb's thunder
Echo like the crack of doom?
While
they rend the skies asunder,
Fall-out makes the earth a tomb.
Do you want
your homes to tumble,
Rise in smoke towards the sky?
Will you let your
cities crumble,
Will you see your children die.
Chorus:
Men and women, stand together,
Do not heed the men of
war.
Make your minds up now or never,
Ban the bomb for ever more.
Tell the leaders of all nations,
Make the whole wide world take
heed,
Poison from the radiations
Strikes at every race and creed.
Must
you put mankind in danger,
Murder folk in distant lands?
Would you bring
death to a stranger,
Have their blood upon your
hands?
Chorus:
Shall we lay the world in ruin?
Only you can make the choice;
Stop and
think of what you're doing,
Join the march and raise your voice.
Time is
short, we must be speedy,
We can see the hungry filled,
House the
homeless, help the needy.
Shall we blast or shall we
build?
Chorus:
(Tune: Clementine)
Once a cabal deep in Whitehall
Hid from Parliament and Queen;
And
decided to provide it -
Deadly secret Chevaline.
Chorus:
First the Tories, later Labour
Bought and sold us all
serene.
But we won't trust any more such,
And we won't have Chevaline.
For deployment and employment
Of its genocidal team,
Aldermaston set
its heart on
Salaries from Chevaline
Chorus:
NATO stooges in high places
Picked the bones of Britain clean,
Stole a
thousand times a million,
Spent it all on Chevaline.
Chorus:
Ruined towns and rotting cities
Crumble into smithereens,
But the
cities are all British,
And the weapon -Chevaline!
Chorus:
Who can quarrel with the moral
Of a story so obscene:
If we mean to
live in freedom,
We must cancel Chevaline!
Chorus:
(Tune: O Little Town of Bethlehem)
O Little town of Newbury, how still your ruins lie.
Above your deep and
dreanless sleep the satellites go by,
But from your hilltops long have flown
the megadeaths of hate;
The lies and fears of all the years, which brought
you to this fate.
How silently, how silently, your radiant ashes glow.
The fires of hell,
the filthy smell, were long ago.
But in your rubble still we read your
message of despair,
"If we must die, let others die in millions Over
There!"
The tragedy is that you never really had to burn.
Both far too late and
far too great you paid the price to learn;
If we want life, let other live
and let the world be shared;
Let rulers go, and nations no more threaten or
be feared.
For little towns like Newbury might sleep today unharmed
If they had seen
that missiles mean the world must be disarmed.
And poverty and ignorance and
private wealth must cease,
If there's to be a world that's free, a planet
that's at peace.
(Words: David Senior, Tune: Star-Spangled Banner)
Oh say can you see, by the night's eerie glow,
Where once proudly we camped on the roadside's green verges.
While broad streets and bright homes in the valley below
Are burnt on the altar of NATO's mad urges.
And the rocket's red glare, mushroom clouds in the air,
Gave proof to the world that the base had been there.
Oh say must that star-spangled missile yet cruise,
O'er this land of the free, who that fate would refuse.
(Tune: Daisy, Daisy)
Trident, Trident - what an insane idea!
Thousands homeless, all for the want of fear.
We can't afford medication, or proper education,
But we must pay a million a day,
So that Britain can disappear!
Trident, Trident - give us a break, please do.
We'd go bankrupt, all for the price of you;
We'd lose even more employment, and most of life's enjoyment.
So sling your hook to the history books,
And no-one will cry boo-hoo!
Trident, Trident - Maggie has gone too far;
The nuclear tyrant will surely lead us to war.
Before she starts attacking, we'll have to send her packing,
And pull the chair on all who gain
From the criminal arms bazaar!