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Make Tea, Not War

from Derelict by The Brooms of Destruction

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lyrics

If only they had tea in a thousand BC
In the promised land where the Philistines and Israel came to blows
Then Goliath spake to David
‘Put a teabag in my helmet,
I’ve been dying for a cuppa since Sokoh and your God knows’

Make tea, not war
Make tea not war
You put the kettle on and I’ll sweep the floor
Make tea, not war

And if the house of Capulet and the house of Montague
Had all put up their longswords and put the kettle on for two
The pair of star-cross’d lovers could neck their potion free
‘Wherefore art thou Romeo? Can you make it three?’

Make tea, not war
Make tea not war
You put the kettle on and I’ll sweep the floor
Make tea, not war

And if Oliver Cromwell and King Charles the First
Told the cavaliers and roundheads just to stop and quench their thirst
As they sipped they’d start to wonder what all the fighting’s for
It would have been most civil but it wouldn’t have been war

Make tea, not war
Make tea not war
You put the kettle on and I’ll sweep the floor
Make tea, not war

And if your kettles empty meet me at the well
We’ll fill them up together, stories we will tell
Stories of the way history could have been
With less guns-and-bombs
More caffeine and tannin

And if Osama Bin Laden and George Dubya 2
Had stopped all of the killing and just had a brew
A cluster bomb of cookies, as much as Fish could bake
And the only shock and awe’s at the size of the cake

Make tea, not war
Make tea not war
You put the kettle on and I’ll sweep the floor
Make tea, not war

(I’m not saying it was perfect...)

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from Derelict, released March 24, 2014

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Passionately silly musicians, writing & playing an eclectic bunch of songs about world issues and cookies. Met while reading at Reading Uni.

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