Protest Song

Protest songs are not just for the younger generation and there has never been more need of them than there is now. So I have rewritten the famous Bob Dylan classic Times They Are A-Changin' and given it an updated English twist as a protest song for those of us old enough to remember the original, but who have kept the faith and never stopped fighting for peace, justice and freedom...and continue that struggle today in the digital age.

The World Needs Re-Arrangin'

Come bloggers and tweeters, who type what you think,

and back-up your posts with a cut hyper-link

Put it on Face Book, kick up a stink

it's time to start campaignin'

Austerity Britain is pushed to the brink

The World Needs Re-Arrangin'

The sick and the poor abandoned to rot

our welfare state carved up 'n' sold off

Austerity Britain, like it or not

is no place to be ageing

we were young in the 60s, but now we are not

The World Needs Re-Arrangin'

Bankers and gangsters made off with the loot

Britain's tax payers are left destitute

our politicians are utterly mute

their own necks they are saving

their streetwalker principles they prostitute

The World Needs Re-Arrangin'

Corporate tax dodgers, MPs on the take

dodgy expenses receipts are all fake

best kick 'em out now, too much is at stake

it's us that they're short-changin'

doing arms deals with filthy rich sheiks

The World Needs Re–Arrangin'

Illegal invasions of poor sovereign states

Nato fascists that everyone hates

governments comprise of sick reprobates

false flag attacks they are stagin'

So rise up now and we'll sweep 'em away

The World Needs Re–Arrangin'

Words by Bob Villain (the voice of his generation).