Roy Harper - Referendum (Legend) lyrics

There was a man from Muddlebro'
Whose problems he lay down
Upon anothers doorstep in a
Distant stranger's town
But forgetting what he'd come for
And in patronising tones
He gave them all his clothes and bread
To stop their moans and groans

'It's not your fault where you were
Born' – he said all condescending
'We cannot all be made like me
With lots of true blue blending'
'But never mind
I'll pass the hat around our gracious nation'
The strangers held their laughter back
Remembering their station

Back home in the Heads of State
The people's memory woke
And yet the yapping didn't stop
Whoever rose and spoke
But in the fields potatoes flowered and
Gulls came with high tides
And men came back from cutting
Wood and gathered by firesides