This Patriot Game (Instructional Song)
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Come gather round Tories
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and hear as I sing
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For the love of one’s country
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is a televised thing
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Take heed of this notice
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purely stating our aims
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We must all play our part in
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This Patriot Game
First of all there's the mantras,
an essential dark art
Self-righteous outpourings,
so learn them by heart
Look pious and saintly
so they all feel your pain
For that’s how we’re playing
This Patriot Game
If you’re being cross-questioned
on Breakfast TV
A respectable bookcase
is mandatory
Some big hardbacked classics
show propriety
On the wall stick a portrait
Of Her Majesty
There is yet just one more thing
to pull from the bag
It’s always essential
to be flying the flag
So the Union Jack will
be there on display
Hanging all limp and floppy
but we like it that way
There’ll be a reaction
and much mockery
From tiresome lefties
at the dread BBC
But don’t be discouraged
there’s no need to stress
We’ll get much support from
Our chums in the Press
Our biased newspapers
will not let us down
They’ll shriek about traitors
insulting the Crown
Take heed of these wise words
that I do proclaim
And then play your part in
This Patriot Game