London Attacks (Hammers thread)

Birminghammer · Jul 12, 2005

I am glad that the realisation that this is in any way a religious attack is disappearing. This was a political attack at best. Bombs do not have a faith filter, they cannot differentiate between Muslim or Christian.

Last Friday I was on the bus going home through Small Heath, an ethnically diverse area of Birmingham, to say the least. A policeman accompanied us, to non UK listners this is remarkable as the typical British copper rarely lives up to the friendly, 'evening all' persona and only occassionally leaves the car when hunger or other natural pressures force him to. Of course the Bobby was not there to ensure that the bus remained unexploded but rather to make sure that no retaliation was taken upon mosques (this being Friday after all) and the faithful within. There was a reaction after 9/11 but thankfully so far most people recogniser that the Islamic community deplores the attacks as much as other or no faiths. Doctrinally these nutters represent a distortion of Islam, as the IRA represent a distortion of Catholicism, and are by far in the minority - albeit very noticable.

Good to see the religious leaders standing 'shoulder to shoulder' in quick response to these attacks and the Muslim Council immedeately condemning the bombs.

Time to get on with it, I see that Plod have raided houses up in Leeds and blown up something suspicious.

I'd like to endorse the defiant spirit of those who posted here and on this day (12th July) of all days exclaim 'the cry is no surrender'.

Andy

Footstomper · Jul 12, 2005

EastHammer said:

London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.
Woa, Liza,
See the coster barrows,
Vegetable marrows
And the fruit piled high.
Woa, Liza,
Little London sparrows,
Covent Garden Market where the costers cry.
Cockney feet
Mark the beat of history.
Every street
Pins a memory down.
Nothing ever can quite replace
The grace of London Town.

INTERLUDE
There's a little city flower every spring unfailing
Growing in the crevices by some London railing,
Though it has a Latin name, in town and country-side
We in England call it London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.
Hey, lady,
When the day is dawning
See the policeman yawning
On his lonely beat.
Gay lady,
Mayfair in the morning,
Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street.
Early rain
And the pavement's glistening.
All Park Lane
In a shimmering gown.
Nothing ever could break or harm
The charm of London Town.

INTERLUDE
In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent,
We can feel our living past in our shadowed present,
Ghosts beside our starlit Thames
Who lived and loved and died
Keep throughout the ages London Pride.

London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.
Grey city
Stubbornly implanted,
Taken so for granted
For a thousand years.
Stay, city,
Smokily enchanted,
Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears.
Every Blitz
Your resistance
Toughening,
From the Ritz
To the Anchor and Crown,
Nothing ever could override
The pride of London Town.

My Nan used to sing this to me, I have no idea what to say about the Bombs, I just know we wont be defeated.

Irons

EastHammer
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Anyone know the tune of this song (Norway, Im looking at you) It reads like sub-Coward satire, but hints at Little Liza Jane in the lyric. Tho it doesnt work in my brief experiment

147man · Jul 13, 2005

Footstomper said:

Anyone know the tune of this song (Norway, Im looking at you) It reads like sub-Coward satire, but hints at Little Liza Jane in the lyric. Tho it doesnt work in my brief experiment
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I know the tune, I can sing it but I don't know what its called. Is it the name you're after?

EastHammer · Jul 13, 2005

147man said:

I know the tune, I can sing it but I don't know what its called. Is it the name you're after?
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la la la la la la

Footstomper · Jul 13, 2005

EastHammer said:

la la la la la la
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Sorry mate, that is DEFINATELY the theme tune to The Archers

TheresaWHUFC · Jul 13, 2005

Footstomper said:

Anyone know the tune of this song (Norway, Im looking at you) It reads like sub-Coward satire, but hints at Little Liza Jane in the lyric. Tho it doesnt work in my brief experiment
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Here you go Stomps, London Pride, written by Noel Coward in 1941 and covered by Julie Andrews, Cleo Laine, Damon Albarn and Twiggy with Harry Groener.

http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=VnYi3H+sod8=

And there was Claret thinking it's just a rather fine beer

Footstomper · Jul 13, 2005

TheresaWHUFC said:

Here you go Stomps, London Pride, written by Noel Coward in 1941 and covered by Julie Andrews, Cleo Laine, Damon Albarn and Twiggy with Harry Groener.

http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=VnYi3H+sod8=

And there was Claret thinking it's just a rather fine beer
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Hey I wasnt far off with the Coward reference was I? I feel just a little smug (I always keep at least a small one handy).