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Intro (Spoken) I’m the Boss of the company (Spoken) And I’ve got hunger working for me (Spoken) Listen and you’ll begin to understand (Spoken) I built my profits on stolen land (Spoken) It’s the economics of supply and demand (Spoken) And I make the demands around here Instrumental N.C. >E> /u>u>E E7u> /u                           Product sells people die   Same manipulation wrapped in lies Give a little money and play your rock and roll The biggest prizes to the biggest fools Instrumental >Em       (Spoken) Good evening ladies and gentlemen. (Spoken) Welcome to the show where you the audience participate. (Spoken) On our show tonight we got lots of surprises in store for you at home. (Spoken)      In keeping with the fashion for charity (Spoken) not change here’s our contribution ? (Spoken) we’ve called it Slag Aid: for every pop star that we slag off today (Spoken) a million pounds will be given away! {Instrumental (Spoken) Paul McCartney - come on down (Spoken) With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground (Spoken) Make of Ethiopia a fertile paradise (Spoken) Where everyone sings Beatles songs and buys shares in EMI (Spoken) Charity starvation and rock and roll (Spoken) Let it be eh Paulie? Instrumental       (Spoken) Freddie Mercury this is your life (Spoken) Thank the Lord that you were born white (Spoken) And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity (Spoken) To peddle your hypocrisy in Sun City     (Spoken) A bit of a hot potato in a moment eh Fred in South Africa? (Spoken) Well I’m sure there’s a video in there somewhere           (Spoken) David Bowie the price is right (Spoken) With a suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite (Spoken) Still the voices of those who doubt (Spoken) Coca-Cola for the peasants to end this drought (Spoken) David the world can only take so much (Spoken) And with you around we’re in for a really hard time      (Spoken) Jagger and Richards game for a laugh (Spoken) Dancing us down the garden path (Spoken) To a place where money grows on trees (Spoken) Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease   (Spoken) There’s only one mountain in the rock and roll business (Spoken) Ladies and Gentlemen and it’s Mick Jagger   >Emu> Bridge: Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings Who makes the money when the puppets sing Ask the corporations where does the money go    Ask the empty-bellied children what are we singing for (Spoken) And Cliff Richard three two one (Spoken) The God who remains when the religion’s gone (Spoken) Cliff we’ve got a special surprise for you today (Spoken) So come up closer step this way (Spoken) Cliff you’re such an example of moral worth (Spoken) Such a purist saint come to bless our earth (Spoken) That on behalf of our viewers watching on telly (Spoken) And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies (Spoken) We’re donating something special that we’re all going to like (Spoken) Cliff Richard we’re going to nail you up to a cross tonight! (Spoken) Ladies and gentlemen just imagine it (Spoken) someone comes along takes everything you own (Spoken) your space your house separates you from your family and then (Spoken) hits you in the face if you say anything different. (Spoken) Well that’s what we’ve been doing to the third world (Spoken) for the past four hundred years. That’s you and me. (Spoken) You the viewers at home me in the studio (Spoken) the pop stars everyone. That’s how we make the third world (Spoken) every day today and every day. (Spoken) If you want any correspondence with the program (Spoken) just send your answers letter bombs only to BP House (Spoken) Victoria Street London SW1. Thank you and good night (Spoken) feed the world starve the rich goodnight!        Outro I know there must be more I know there must be more Than giving just a little bit more When half of this world is so helplessly poor Starved of the real solution Charity and tradition     And the cycle of hungry children Will keep on going ’round           Will keep on going ’round Will keep on going ’round ’Till we burn the house of commons to the ground