Lyrics I snatched from the guy down the road.
'Get off/White Power'
(Paul) "Oh Enoch Powell,
White Power. (John) Yes!
White Power. Malcolm X.
White Power Gerrof!
White Power Gerrof!
Hear me talkin' White Power Gerrof!
Malcolm X
James Brown Why don't you gerrof!
Cassius Clay Deadrie McTeadrie (?)
Judy Garland, gerrof!
Jeremy Banks, let me hear it.
Wilson Pickett Gerrof!
Jimmy Brown
Malcolm Evans, Charlie Ho (?)
Liverpool
The song briefly breaks down here. John says 'Okay, run through it' and
then sings "Why don't you put it on the toast?!" Then...
Gerrof!
Billy Turner
Eric Griffiths, Can you dig it?
Ivan Vaughan
Dusty Springfield, can you dig it?
Russ Conway ah yeah!
Peter Brown
Joan Littlewood John Lennon!
John Lennon! can you dig it?
can you dig it? yeah!
Mary Whitehouse gerrof!
Richard Nixon, can you dig it?
Ronnie Corbett
David Frost, can you dig it?
Betty Grable
Clark Kent Clark Kent? (John seems amused)
Super Agents
Sean O.Mahoney
Jack MacGowan, let me hear it.
Enid Blyton, let me hear it.
can you dig it?
Mike Ansis (?)
Jeff Mohammed, come on Tony Sherdian
Billy Harry
Emperor Rosko June Harry
Virginia Harry! Yeah! (giggling)
can you dig it?
Norman Rossington
John Junkin
Tony Sheridan
Winston Chruchill, let me hear it
Mister Attlee
Gerald Navaro, how about it?
San Fransisco Proms, can you dig it
Huddersfield carno (?)
Electric String Bag! Incredible String Vest!
string bag! (laughs)
can you dig it?
Here the song breaks down completely and then John leads them into a great
thrashy version of Big Joe Turner's 'Honey Hush'.
'Commonwealth Song'
(paul) Tonight Enoch Powell said to the immigrants
Immigrants have gotta go home
Tonight Harold Wilson said to the immigrants
You'd better get back to your commonwelath home.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said you'd better get back home.
Now Enoch Powell he said to the folks
He said it's the colour of your skin
He said he don't care what it's all about
... [mumbled line, ala Elvis - no descernable lyrics]
So Ted Heath said to Enoch Powell,
he said you'd better get off, or else you're gonna drown (!)
he said Enoch Powell, Enoch you'd better go home.
So Wilson said to Dubrovniev, come on boy we're gonna swing,
we've gotta go back to the summitt on the hill,
... [another mumbled line] ... to win,
so Enoch Powell said to Wilson and Heath, buy your commonwealth!
chorus: Commonwealth (John) Yes!
Commonwealth Yes!
If you don't want trouble then you'd better go back home.
Paul (in a silly Monty Python-style voice)
So i went to Pakistani, I went to India
I've been to Old (Oh!?) Calcutta, and I've had enough of that
I'm coming back to England Town
John Yes! Welcome England
Paul And dirty Enoch Powell, he's had enough of Parliament
Commonwealth Yes!
can you hear me commonwealth?
Well I checked off to Australia and went to New Zealand
You'd better live with us we're gonna have some fun,
we're going up to India, we're going to Pakistan
we're coming to
, and over to Japan (laughs)
And here comes Enoch Powell and he says there's trouble here.
commonwealth Yes!
yeah commonwealth Yes!
well the commonwealth is much too wealthy for me
John much too common for me!
Paul I went to Australia and New Zealand too
I went to Pakistan and India too
I went off to West Indies and I had a cricket match!
I went off to South Africa and hung out with the blacks!
Oh commonwealth, you're much too common for me.
Enoch Powell commonwealth.
Immigrants commonwealth
Well I would join the common market but it's much too common for me!
And, with the snapping of George's guitar string ends the Beatles attempts
at socio-political satire...
