Do They Mean Us?

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Dance 'round the maypole, rappers and mummers Stepping in and out of time Cockneys, Brummies, Tykes and Geordies Players in this pantomime From Notting Hill to Tyneside Mela Marching ghosts of colliery bands Farmers, markets, high-tech sweatshops Such a green and pleasant land In an english country garden "Clearing the land... ex-urban man" Puddings made with bread and butter The lash of the whip and rhyming slang Speakers corner, Miners' Welfare Images all juxtaposed With this patchwork panorama You have to laugh: "Do they mean us?" Lager louts and laddish culture St George's cross upon your pate John Bull on Beau Brummel's waistcoat Knuckles tattooed "Love and Hate" Schizophrenic, new age, new man Bite your lip, don't make a fuss The malaise of the english patient You have to ask: "Do they mean us?" "Oop north" where they bathe in gravy Sarees seen on cobbled streets Down south it's a top coat warmer "Kiss me quick" on Margate beech English blood runs mild and bitter Adam's ale or council pop Refugees and silence seekers Multi-racial melting pot Such inherent contradictions A crisis of identity Are the smiles all disingenuous? Quote english eccentricity From Land's End up to Kielder Water All make-believe and just-suppose Given the whole "Sink and Puddle" In the end: "Do they mean us?"