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When Britain Really Ruled The Waves

from Live: Do Not Immerse by Broadside Electric

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A somber, thoughtful examination of the role of the House of Lords in world history. Well, maybe not! Joe and Jim get increasingly prog-ish, while Tom overdoes the vibrato.

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When Britain really ruled the waves--
(In good Queen Bess's time)
The House of Peers made no pretence
To intellectual eminence,
Or scholarship sublime;
Yet Britain won her proudest bays
In good Queen Bess's glorious days!
Yes, Britain won …

CHORUS: Yes, Britain won …

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
As every child can tell,
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well:
Yet Britain set the world ablaze
In good King George's glorious days!
Yes, Britain set …

CHORUS: Yes, Britain set …

And while the House of Peers withholds
Its legislative hand,
And noble statesmen do not itch
To interfere with matters which
They do not understand,
As bright will shine Great Britain's rays
As in King George's glorious days!
As bright …

CHORUS: As bright …

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from Live: Do Not Immerse, released May 14, 2002
From "Iolanthe" (words: W.S. Gilbert; music: Arthur S. Sullivan)

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Broadside Electric Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Broadside Electric is a five-piece electric folk band from Philadelphia, PA (US). They have earned a reputation for thoroughly original arrangements and painstaking research into traditional English, Celtic and Eastern European music. Broadside Electric has been at turns called “Pennsylvania’s answer to Steeleye Span” and “folk music’s answer to death metal.” ... more

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