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A recent wheeze of some Government minister was that we should celebrate the Queen's 60th jubilee by giving her a new yacht.

When wiser heads and those outraged by this caused hasty backpedalling, we heard that it would be privately funded after all... rather than using money taken from the people of the country who are, in many cases, seeing their quality of life and hopes for the future diminish into despair with each passing day.

We've stopped hearing about it at all, now. Perhaps that's as well.

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HMS MARIE ANTOINETTE



Climb the rigging! Curse your debt!
No way back when the course is set!
What’s left over is the best we’ll get
On the HMS Marie Antoinette

Sixty splendid years it’s been
Quite an achievement for an English Queen
We must find a way to mark the date
With perhaps a little gift to celebrate
(With perhaps a little gift to celebrate)

Would you like a clock? Would you like a cake?
It’s a job finding presents for you, no mistake!
Would you like some slippers or a nice warm coat?
Or perhaps you’d rather have a great big boat?
(Perhaps you’d rather have a great big boat?)

Climb the rigging! Curse your debt!
No way back when the course is set!
What’s left over is the best we’ll get
On the HMS Marie Antoinette

Sixty years upon the throne
Hardly a minute she can call her own
It’s not as if she can retire
With a dog and a whiskey and a roaring fire
(With a dog and a whiskey and a roaring fire)

But there must be ways to leave her mark
Hospice, library, a public park?
If I had my druthers and could cast my vote
Then I wouldn’t spend a penny on a great big boat.
(Wouldn’t spend a penny on a great big boat.)

Climb the rigging! Curse your debt!
No way back when the course is set!
What’s left over is the best we’ll get
On the HMS Marie Antoinette



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Words & music by & © Talis Kimberley 18th January 2012

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from FREE ALBUM: Songs of Common Ground, track released February 29, 2012
Talis Kimberley, vocals. In the studio, with the Tascam.

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Talis Kimberley UK

"I'm a songwriter and singer; my songs are spun from folklore and history, stirred well with a hazel wand and served with cake. I'll sing you ravens and bones and the story behind the story, I'll sing you bread and apples, ghosts and knitting, and bring you home with a pocketful of feathers and hope"

Voice / guitar / English concertina

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