FORGOTTEN REBELS

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FUCK ya

An Irishman once gave me a cassette tape of this punk album back in the days of walkmans. But alas, cassette tapes inevitably get wrecked sooner or later, and I lost the name of the band and forgot all about it

Just recently through bizarre coincidence I found this shit and its the SAME TUNES

I am so psyched, I loved that tape

Oh yeah they were a Toronto band

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So I see you want to start a World War.
Death comes in threes and it's so fun to score.
That Ayatollah really must be a whore.
Don't you want to put yours arms around him?
Filth eating camel sweat he's a sickie moslem so hard to please.
His kind of thinking must show you his disease.
I left my heart, left my heart in Iran.
Bring back the Shah that's where it began.
Should've dropped some bombs and watched how they ran.
I left my heart, left my heart in Iran.
Death is his only groupie.
Remember hiding in Paris?
Now can't you see his only answer is there, and
It's not his long hair
When he sees his country dying,
No one else in the world is crying
The only one humanitarian way.
That's why I'm a mercenary.
I left my heart in Iran.
Bring back the Shah that's where it began.
Should have dropped some bombs and watched how they ran.
I left my heart, left my heart in Iran.

LOL

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THE PUNKS ARE ALL RIGHT

I don't mind another guy fucking with my girl
If he does, she can get the hell out of my world
Get it into your head, all your morals are dead
I'm your leader instead 'cause the punks are alright
Sometimes, I feel like it's not worth trying
There's times when I can't even bother crying
Get it into your head, rock and roll has gone dead
I'm a punk and it's me instead 'cause the punks are alright
You know, I can't help feeling pissed off
There's days when I feel like getting lost
I don't mind some bureaucrats trying to rip me off
I got their number and I just might have them tossed
'Cause they'll lead us to hell, but we'll all live to tell
It's their time to bid farewell 'cause the punks are alright
The punks are alright.





ENGLAND KEEP YER STARS

I remember you so many years ago
What I saw in you I don't know
I saw stars when I opened your door
They landed on our fair shores
Their novel accents made them so rich
While I'm stuck playing In a rotting ditch
Now London don't swing like a pendulum do
England keep yer starts

[Chorus:]
So won't you keep yer stars
England Keep yer stars
Won't you keep yer stars
England keep yer stars

Through Canada and America they played the biggest arena
They took money from our pocket then they got ripped off
I wanna be so bloody rich, I wanna be a snob
and make my wife a bitch
Now London don't swing like a pendulum do
England keep.yer stars

Radio loves the English bands
Radio loves the American bands
Have they censored Canada to get their money from foreign lands?
Rebels like us who have it rough
Canadian radio will not play our stuff
Now New York don't swing like a pendulum do
England keep yer stars

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Elvis is dead, Elvis is dead
The big fat guy is dead, dead, dead
Elvis is dead, Elvis is dead
The big fat goof is dead, dead, dead
Millions of assholes mourned his death
I'm gonna steal his body from the place of rest (x2)
Give him back in pieces when the ransom's paid
Leave his hypodermics where the moneys laid
Elvis is dead, Elvis is dead
The big fat goof is dead, dead, dead
Elvis is dead, Elvis is dead
Spend your money on our records instead

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Thank you Youtube! suggesting a bunch of old bands I never even knew the names of

I'm tellin ya I had a bag full of tapes and didn't know half the names of who the fuck played the songs

Apparently I had a Chronic Generation tape too:

good fuckin band

*edit: lolol nice tune @ 16:30. I used to love that tune
Punk rock romance songs are so beautiful

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Som that song is awesome.

The Irishman who gave me the tape also made a tape for me made from his dad's record collection of Irish rebel tunes - the real deal from someone who KNOWS. I'd stay up and he would sing em for me and tell me what they mean and how if if you sing most of em today in N Ireland you go to jail, lol

Ireland got FUCKED by the brits and most don't even know it, the history was covered and changed. Sinead O'Connor sings a lot about this too

The tape sounded a lot like this stuff, there's even probably a couple o tunes in there from it:

(alas, that tape got wrecked too)

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Irish punk can be really good sometimes too
(sometimes not :) )

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Here's an Irish tune that was on the tape I was told was actually not a love song at all, but a song about the relationship between Ireland and England:

Later I heard Sinead sing it which just about fucking broke my heart:



Then later I found a punk version of it, which put it all back together and then some: