Richard Thompson - The New St George lyrics

Leave your satisfaction

Can't you hear St. George's tune

When George's tune is calling you on?

Freedom was your mother

Fight for one another

Leave the factory, leave the forge

And dance to the new St. George

Don't believe pretenders

Who say they would defend us

While they flash their teeth and wave

The other hand is being paid

They choke the air and bleed us

These noble men who lead us

Leave the factory, leave the forge

And dance to the new St. George

The fish and fowl are ailing

The farmer's life is failing

Where are all the backroom boys?

The backroom boys can save us now

We're poisoned by the greedy

Who plunder on the needy

Leave the factory, leave the forge

And dance to the new St. George