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Waiting For The Worms

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Waiting For The Worms

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"Hammer, Hammer, Hammer,...."

[Pink:] "Einse, svei, drei, alle!"

Oooo, You cannot reach me now

Oooo, No matter how you try

Goodbye cruel world, it's over

Walk on by

Sitting in a bunker

Here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

In perfect isolation

Here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

[Man using megaphone:] "We're waiting to succeed and going to convene outside Brixton Town Hall where we're going to be...."

Waiting, to cut out the deadwood

Waiting, to clean up the city

Waiting, to follow the worms

Waiting, to put on a black shirt

Waiting, to weed out the weaklings

Waiting, to smash in their windows

And kick in their doors

Waiting, for the final solution to strengthen the strain

Waiting, to follow the worms

Waiting, to turn on the showers and fire the ovens

Waiting, for the queers and the coons

And the Reds and the Jews

Waiting, to follow the worms

Would you like to see Britannia

Rule again, my friend?

All you have to do is follow the worms

Would you like to send our colored cousins

Home again, my friend?

All you need to do is follow the worms

"Hammer, Hammer, Hammer, ..."

[Man with Megaphone:] "The worms will convene outside Brixton Bus Station. We'll be moving along at about 12 o'clock down Stockwell Road .... Abbot's Road .... twelve minutes to three we'll be moving along Lambeth Road towards Vauxhall Bridge. Now when we get to the other side of Vauxhall Bridge we're in Westminster Borough area. It's quite possible we may encounter some ... by the way we go...."

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